If you are already doing this, please ignore, but, I found that lifting the neck(Beatles style) really helps as it makes you lift your fingers.
There is a tendency to flatten your fingers across the fretboard when playing sitting down.
A foot rest is a really good investment.
Hi Justin. Thank you for all the lessons so far 
Itās a great help to go on with as a beginning guitar player. I started playing april '24. Cheers, Jan
Hello Vera, welcome to the community forum. I think that if you experience any pain, then you should stop playing barre chords for a while and go to something else. If you have an electric or nylon string guitar, you will find the barre chord to be easier and less stressful on the wrist. Also, later when you have healed, you could try using a capo at the 5th fret and practice your barre chords. The lower action and higher fret position should make the barre chords easier. You should carefully watch the F chord lesson again to make sure that you are using good form and hand position for the barre chords, I hope you are able to heal quickly and return to your normal playing. Playing guitar should be fun and not hurt.
Hi Jan, welcome to the community forum.
Iām in module 10 and I canāt even play an Fchord properly, leave alone doing chord changes with it. I was willing to stick with it in this module until I be able to play it as fluidly as I do with other chords, but Iāve seen some people saying that it takes months to be able to play good barre chords
Hi Kerlon,
Donāt stress too much about the F chord - at least not the full barre F. Iām at the beginning of Grade 3. Some songs with a barre F work for me, others donāt. Some days are better than others. Iāve embraced the āmini-bar Fā where you barre strings 1 and 2 only as the alternative when the big F just isnāt working. So, the advice from this fellow beginner is: move on from this module if youāre ready (F chord aside); the barre F will come to you, eventually but possibly not soon; do keep working on the darned barre F; and keep having fun!
Judi
Thank you very much, Judi. I appreciate your willingness to answer my questions. Iāll take your advice and move on, see you!
Hi Everyone,
I seem to have a very similar experience to a lot of you here. Iām in my early 30ās and currently at module 10 with a total of 6 month practice so far. What I personally found works for me and might help others is that I try to āperfectā as much as possible the more technical stuff before I move on. By technical I mean the scales, riffs, alternate picking etc. I also of course practice songs and new chords in my sessions (30 min in total), but tend to move on once the more ātechnicalā stuff starts to sound good. I found that when practicing songs youāll naturally get faster at changing chords and strumming so as long as Iāll keep doing songs and incorporating new chords Iāll keep progressing. Iām nowhere near getting the F chord down. So far I spent about 3 hours (6 days of 30min sessions) and will most likely give it another week or two until I can do the riff and scale few times in a row without making a mistake and of course producing clear sound.
Iād be curious to see what other approaches people have.
In this module I am actually only playing one music that is not in this list but itās based on one of the easier versions of the House of Rising Sun from Justins video.The progressions are Am C D F and Am E, and I am playing with 6/8 and for the sake of curiosity/fun trying a bit with the fingerstyle.
I have not practice much the mini F of last module, because I am able (with a lot of practice and stubbornness) to play the F most of the times (a bit slow but getting better ā¦ 47 changes per minute). And I am using this song to force me to speed up my F transitions.
Canāt wait for the next Module.