I realize that 15 minutes isn't a lot of practice time, but (as I said in a previous post in this thread), my schedule right now doesn't allow me to practice any more then that. How exactly am I supposed to practice longer when I don't have the time to? I appreciate the responses here, but nothing said here seems to help me in any way. Also, I've done power chords as a way to get to barre chords, yet I still can't get barre chords to sound the way they are supposed to, and given my level of frustration with them, it's better that I just don't try them at all.