I am only now starting to use barre chords. I have been playing for just over 18 months and am self teaching, (that is using sites like this as opposed to going to a tutor)..can that be called "self teaching"?...anyway I digress.
To get back to the point, I am finding that Barre chords seem to greatly improve the speed of my play - its far easier to move from chord to chord using barre shapes than open chord shapes in my experience. It seems to be opening up my repertiore much more now that I am learning to shift from chord to chord.
mind, its hard at first to get clean sounding chords !!!
Pete
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