Rock in A minor (variant) — syncopated muted strums

Level 4 rock quick change

As with F on the catalogue's barre chord grid in C, the barre here needs to stay firm rather than ease off to mute cleanly — a constraint the syncopation makes even more demanding, since no dead time lets you check the barre's grip between hits.

Tips

If simple muting on F isn't reliable yet on this grid, work on it in isolation first.
Keep the barre finger firmly in place throughout the syncopated pattern, without trying to ease it.
On Am, C and G, the palm does all the work with no barre constraint: consciously contrast that with F.

Chord progression — Am

Bar 1 Am i
Bar 2 F VI
Bar 3 C III
Bar 4 G VII

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