thats sweet , thanks a lot , dont worry nothing bad happened here 
Music related , the workshops will be after the school break , not during the break , so I wont have a one on one guitar lesson until late november
that gives me time to practice all I ve learned so far , especially the christmas song
Day 215 / 42 weeks streak :
Trained on finger stretches and crawling as a warm up and did the pinky exercise + Hey ho by the Lumineers basic melody as a warm up song
grade 2 in JG :
module 11
Practiced the sus chords
Songs on the Musopia app :
Practiced Have you ever seen the rain by CCR at a low speed with the new strumming pattern given by my teacher ( module 10 ) at full speed
Played The house of the rising sun at a low speed with the new strumming pattern given by my teacher ( module 11 ) and also with the pattern given by the app at 112 and 128 bpm and also with the pattern given by the app
Trying to learn You ve got to hide your love away /module 11 ( work on sus chords )
Played Hey Ho by the Lumineers at full speed ( module 10 )
Played in the air tonight by Phil Collins at full speed
Guitar teacher :
Worked on the A minor pentatonic scale with legato and the alternate strumming
Did the left hand exercices ( legato / fingers independance )
Practiced the Sweet child of mine intro
Practiced Merry christmas everybody by Slade , helped by a youtube video
I forgot to work on the F chord …
Im trying to have a light touch while strumming have you ever seen the rain and House of the rising sun , its really something to work on to make it sound musical , pleasant to the ears
When I play power chords my pinky locks up and gets stuck , its annoying cause I can t change chords
is it a muscle issue ?
no guitar tomorrow , having a one day break
How does it get stuck?
Pinkies tend to have independence issues (or kind of separation anxiety 
) with fourth finger, so the two want to do everything together. It’s a matter of patience and practice, I guess. Try to move your pinky while holding down the power chord could be a possible exercise to create less dependency? That’s at least on idea coming to my mind.
no it s not a matter of independency , it just gets stuck in the position of holding the chord
as if its double jointed
I can t move it in an another position
Now I got it. Somehow, I was forming the power chord with fingers 2 and 3 instead of fourth and pinky in my imagination. 
There is a condition that might be causing this (don’t have it myself, but there are plenty of folks knowing that), that a finger (often pinky) gets locked and then releases with a kind of snap. Had to ask google and it seems to be named Trigger Finger.
I also recall Justin talking about it in one of his lessons, but unfortunately don’t recall which one. 
If I find it again, I will link it here.
Maybe you could try practicing changing between power chords like in one minute chord changes first, lifting your fingers rather than sliding the hand. But lifting it only ever so slightly that your pinky won’t get stuck? I hope this makes sense.
Another possibility to overcome this is using only your fourth finger to barre the two strings of the power chord so pinky is not involved at all. Lots of players do it like that. Maybe it’s worth experimenting with this a little.
thanks a lot
I will try different stuf to see if I can resolve this issue
how can you do that in 2 different frets ? ( B5 C5 G5 etc )
no thats not this
I think its just the middle joint locking out probably due to lack of muscles
Looks like squeezing a stress ball for 5 min every day would help
I need to find a ball now 
Oh, my bad. I should have specified this a little more. For 2-note Power Chords, you can simply use index for the bass note and the fourth finger for the second note. For example G5: 35xxxx you play low E-String 3rd fret with index and A string 5th fret with fourth finger. No barring necessary.
For the 3-note Power Chord you still play bass with index, but the other 2 notes you can play with the fourth finger barring over A string and D string in case root is on 6th string, or D and G string (5th string root). Given the G5: 355xxx the fourth finger would barre the fifth fret on A-string and D-string instead using the pinky on the D-string.
Hope that helps.
Great, glad it’s not the thing I found and has an easy fix! If you can’t find a ball, just squeeze a tangled pair of socks 
thanks I ll try this
I should play the song once with the fourth finger and once with the pinky to strengthen it
I have this at home , maybe I should use it
Sounds like “doigt à ressaut” to me. I get it in quite a few fingers but fortunately my picking hand. Actually blew all 8 fingers when first moved in as had to fence the whole 0.6 hectare plot because of the dog. So wheelbarrows of concrete for posts where needed back and forth for days all over the place, ended up with everything locked but all self induced ! Ended up with “les corticoïdes” injections in all 8 fingers !!
Rather than use Index (root) ring (5th) and pinkie (root octave) either play the 2 finger power chord Root 5th only (actually more common) or mini barre the 5th and 4th string with the ring finger for PC with 6th string root. 4th and 3rd for 5th string root.
No no these will add no benefit to your playing and are just a gimmick, Yes I bought one years ago and they suck. You’d be better off just playing 4 fret chromatic runs.
E string fret 5 6 7 8
A string fret 5 6 7 8
yada yada
those grip things won’t come close to actually fret practice as the gaps don’t emulate the fretboard and need herculean pressure to press the plasy tubes down. Counter productive for playing as you need to use just enough pressure not choke the neck to death!!
Day 216 / 43 weeks streak :
Trained on finger stretches and crawling as a warm up and did the pinky exerciseS ( I added the exercice Toby sent me )
grade 2 in JG :
module 11
Practiced the sus chords
Watched the video : Introduction to Fingerstyle Guitar
Practice fingerstyle for some minutes
Songs on the Musopia app :
Practiced Have you ever seen the rain by CCR at a low speed with the new strumming pattern given by my teacher ( module 10 ) at full speed
Played The house of the rising sun at a low speed with the new strumming pattern given by my teacher ( module 11 ) at 112 bpm
This song is a nightmare , I think Im as far as I can play it with my levelTrying to learn You ve got to hide your love away /module 11 ( work on sus chords ) at 98 bpm
Played Hey Ho by the Lumineers at full speed ( module 10 )
Played in the air tonight by Phil Collins at full speed
Guitar teacher :
Worked on the A minor pentatonic scale with legato and the alternate strumming
Practiced the C major scale while saying the notes on the neck aloud
Practiced the Sweet child of mine intro
Practiced Merry christmas everybody by Slade , helped by a youtube video
Played it using my ring finger instead of the pinky , so I decreased the speed , my hand needs to get used to the stretch
I 've let the varygrip in its box , I ve never used it , the pressure needed to use it does not feel right
Day 217 / 43 weeks streak :
Did the spider exercice as a warm up and did the pinky exercises
grade 2 in JG :
module 11
Practiced the sus chords
Practice fingerstyle for some minutes between D and G
Practiced the F chord on the chord trainer
Songs on the Musopia app :
Practiced Have you ever seen the rain by CCR at a low speed with the new strumming pattern given by my teacher ( module 10 ) at full speed
Played The house of the rising sun at a low speed with the new strumming pattern given by my teacher ( module 11 ) at 112 bpm and then with the strumming pattern given by the app at 128 bpm
Trying to learn You ve got to hide your love away /module 11 ( work on sus chords ) at 98 bpm , then tried it at 111 bpm
Played Hey Ho by the Lumineers at full speed ( module 10 )
Played in the air tonight by Phil Collins at full speed
Played Edge of seventeen ( module 5 ) just for the fun of it
Guitar teacher :
Worked on the A minor pentatonic scale with legato and the alternate strumming
Practiced the C major scale while saying the notes on the neck aloud
Practiced the Sweet child of mine intro
Practiced Merry christmas everybody by Slade , helped by a youtube video
Played it using my ring finger instead of the pinky
Day 218 / 43 weeks streak :
Did the spider exercice as a warm up and did the pinky exercises
New challenge of the week : a song called Song of the south by the Alabama / level 3 / Cow boy chords
Played Everybody hurts by Rem / cow boy chords to improve my power chords with ring finger instead of the pinky
grade 2 in JG :
module 11
Practiced the sus chordsPractice fingerstyle for some minutes between D and G
Practiced the F chord on the chord trainer and on the intro of Losing my religion
I did it !!! I played the intro with the F barre chord at full speed
I tried 3 times and It was ok the 3 times
Songs on the Musopia app :
Practiced Have you ever seen the rain by CCR at a low speed with the new strumming pattern given by my teacher ( module 10 ) at full speed
Played The house of the rising sun at a low speed with the new strumming pattern given by my teacher ( module 11 ) at 112 bpm and then with the strumming pattern given by the app at 128 bpm
Trying to learn You ve got to hide your love away /module 11 ( work on sus chords ) at 98 bpm , then tried it at 111 bpm
Played Hey Ho by the Lumineers at full speed ( module 10 )
Played in the air tonight by Phil Collins at full speed
Played Edge of seventeen ( module 5 ) to try my pedal on it , loved how it sounds
Guitar teacher :
Worked on the A minor pentatonic scale with legato and the alternate strumming
Practiced the C major scale while saying the notes on the neck aloud
Practiced the Sweet child of mine intro
Practiced Merry christmas everybody by Slade , helped by a youtube video
Played it using my ring finger instead of the pinky
No more medical appointments until next year 
today was the last one with the adjustment of my new dental splint
Day 219 / 43 weeks streak :
Did the spider exercice as a warm up and did the pinky exercises
Challenge of the week : a song called Song of the south by the Alabama / level 3 / Cow boy chords
grade 2 in JG :
module 11
Practiced the sus chordsPractice fingerstyle for some minutes between D and G
Practiced the F chord on the chord trainer and on the intro of Losing my religion
Songs on the Musopia app :
Practiced Have you ever seen the rain by CCR with the new strumming pattern given by my teacher ( module 10 ) at full speed
Played The house of the rising sun at a low speed with the new strumming pattern given by my teacher ( module 11 ) at 112 bpm
Trying to learn You ve got to hide your love away /module 11 ( work on sus chords ) at 98 bpm , then tried it at 111 bpm
Played Hey Ho by the Lumineers at full speed ( module 10 )
Played in the air tonight by Phil Collins at full speed
Played Edge of seventeen ( module 5 )
Guitar teacher :
Worked on the A minor pentatonic scale with legato and the alternate strumming
Practiced the C major scale while saying the notes on the neck aloud
Practiced the Sweet child of mine intro
Practiced Merry christmas everybody by Slade , helped by a youtube video
Played it using my ring finger instead of the pinky
No guitar tomorrow
Take a well deserved rest !
thanks Toby
skill assessment :
whats to improve :
Next step
Today I recorded some songs
I Spent some time setting up Obs first , I finally found how to record in stereo
So here are 4 songs from my practice routine ( I ll start practicing something else now )
I hope you’ll enjoy it , just give me your opinion
On Have you ever seen the rain Im using the strumming pattern given by my guitar teacher , its not easy so Im doing my best
All the songs are played with the Musopia app
My hand was really tired after playing all this
Deborah
Well played guitar throughout all the pieces: you seemed particularly in sync with Edge of Seveteen. Did you do any of the other instruments via DAW of some sort? Also, if you were using OBS, why no video? Very good playing: very enjoyable.
Brian
thanks for your answer
i hoped there would be more 
what other instruments ? the backing track comes from the justin guitar app ( musopia )
its just me and my grestch plugged into a pedal , plugged into an amp , plugged into a scarlett solo , plugged into OBS
because Toby said that last time I posted a recording :
I ve never made an AVOYP yet
I had a listen too but I’m just not qualified to give worthwhile feedback. It sounds good, clean and consistent to my ears which is a really solid base to build from. Hopefully more experienced players or your guitar teacher can suggest what the next step might be. All that practice you do definitely shows though 