Hey all, so I've been self teaching myself guitar since about January, and while I've made decent progress (I can play many chords, learned a couple simple songs) I feel that one area I'm really lacking in is barre chords. No matter how much I practice the finger placement for chords like F or B, I always end up buzzing/muting the B string of my guitar; no matter how hard I press with my barre finger, even if I place my thumb directly behind the B string, pull my arm inward for better pressure, I still can't reliably get the B string to ring. I also find it quite difficult to switch from normal chords to barre chords in songs, but that's another issue with my muscle memory entirely. The main issue is that even after watching countless videos on it and trying every trick in the book, practice just doesn't seem to be helping.

So recently I've started to wonder if the action on my guitar is too high to comfortably play barre chords. I don't have one of those cards where you measure the action, but I was hoping anybody here would be able to see if mine was too high and/or any tips for playing barre chords better? I just used a random card in the picture to hopefully give some kind of scale for the action. Thanks in advance!

Hey all, so I've been self teaching myself guitar since about January, and while I've made decent progress (I can play many chords, learned a couple simple songs) I feel that one area I'm really lacking in is barre chords. No matter how much I practice the finger placement for chords like F or B, I always end up buzzing/muting the B string of my guitar; no matter how hard I press with my barre finger, even if I place my thumb directly behind the B string, pull my arm inward for better pressure, I still can't reliably get the B string to ring. I also find it quite difficult to switch from normal chords to barre chords in songs, but that's another issue with my muscle memory entirely. The main issue is that even after watching countless videos on it and trying every trick in the book, practice just doesn't seem to be helping.

So recently I've started to wonder if the action on my guitar is too high to comfortably play barre chords. I don't have one of those cards where you measure the action, but I was hoping anybody here would be able to see if mine was too high and/or any tips for playing barre chords better? I just used a random card in the picture to hopefully give some kind of scale for the action. Thanks in advance!