I am in the process of learning Octopus’s Garden by Raffi, and my first bar chord (F major). I am pretty strong on most of the song except I need to work on quick and smooth transitions to the F chord.
This Youtube video gave me some good tips for playing the bar chords including…
- Place thumb further down so that pointer finger is flat on the fretboard
- use arm to pull hand towards you a bit so that you hand gets less tired playing the bar chord
