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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
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Salv
Canada3083 Posts
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blabber
United States4448 Posts
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ahrara_
Afghanistan1715 Posts
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randomscrub
Bulgaria44 Posts
are you using your pinky like you are supposed to? you only use 2 fingers for that chord, the index holds down 2 strings and the pinky gets the one on the 8th fret | ||
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
On September 06 2008 14:27 randomscrub wrote: i have extremely small hands and that chord sounds easy... are you using your pinky like you are supposed to? you only use 2 fingers for that chord, the index holds down 2 strings and the pinky gets the one on the 8th fret Yea I am, but like, I can't stretch the pinky out to the 8th fret. It wont reach >.<? | ||
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benjammin
United States2728 Posts
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benjammin
United States2728 Posts
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
On September 06 2008 14:42 EtherealDeath wrote:
Yea I am, but like, I can't stretch the pinky out to the 8th fret. It wont reach >. so move your hand and stretch the other fingers -_- | ||
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
On September 06 2008 15:35 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: so move your hand and stretch the other fingers -_- By this i included that. As in my max stretching out fails to cover the distance. Small hand ftl :-( Very well reflected in my SC as well, i only use 1-5 hotkeys. | ||
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
On September 06 2008 14:26 ahrara_ wrote: It takes lots of practice. No one can do that at first. JESUS CAN! | ||
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404.Nintu
Canada1723 Posts
Also, if you're young, your hands might still grow? + Show Spoiler + I remember my first day trying to play guitar. I couldn't make my fingers go where I wanted to. It just feels akward, and you have to physically move your fingers with your other hand to put them in the right place. It's sorta like making the Vulcan sign with your hand. Connecting your 1st and 2nd finger, your 3rd and 4th finger, and separating them to make a V. Feels akward the first time you try, and now it's dead simple. There's a lot of muscle memory and junk that goes on. I couldn't do a G chord, C chord, etc.. I just couldn't move my fingers at all. Bar chords were literally impossible for me. Few years later, I can do it without realizing it. I'm a pretty good guitar player now, can easily play a lot of shred. So just because the first little while is akward as fuck, doesn't mean your fucked at all. I was so desperate once I actually e-mailed Paul Gilbert and asked him if I was "Screwed" because my fingers weren't acting normally. ... so I understand the fear and the akwardness. It's just practice, familiarization, etc.. It's not uncomfortable in the slightest to fret chords now. It really becomes 100% natural. | ||
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
EDIT: am 19, don't think they will grow much more :-( | ||
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
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Pholon
Netherlands6142 Posts
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/FakeSteveTPR/areyoudoingthis.png) are you trying to hold the 2nd and 3rd strings on the fifth fret with your index and middle fingers like in the first diagram? because you should be holding your index finger across the fifth fret of all three and holding the 8th fret on the first string with your pinky like in the second diagram | ||
boesthius
United States11637 Posts
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
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skyglow1
New Zealand3962 Posts
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yubee
United States3826 Posts
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LaLuSh
Sweden2358 Posts
You develop a different set of muscles for guitar. I think the difference might be that you have to tighten more fingers at the same time when playing guitar. Also learning how to keep, say, a pinky finger needed elsewhere relaxed when holding down a barr chord and straining all your other fingers is essential. At a beginner phase reaching with a pinky finger usually causes the disintegration of chords  When I was a beginner -- a long time ago -- I too would find that my fingers automatically clumped together. Give the brain some time to work these things out though. And PRACTICE so you develop those muscles and neural pathways. Pretty soon you'll find you developed a huge fucking lump below your pinky finger, above your wrist, somewhere to the left on the hand (watching it with the palm faced down away from you). Anyway, I'm drifting off point: I have never seen anyone, no matter how small hands, not eventually being able to reach 3 frets of distance. I have average sized hands and I can reach 6. I just recorded the first part of romance on my head set mic for the heck of it: Romance intro Killed me trying to play it slowly, think it lost some feeling. I like it 2x fast | ||
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SpiralArchitect
United States2116 Posts
On September 06 2008 14:42 EtherealDeath wrote: Yea I am, but like, I can't stretch the pinky out to the 8th fret. It wont reach >.<? You want to stretch your finger from the first fret to eighth and you just started playing. Cmon dude learn like E A D G... and so on. Dont worry about their bar cords since they are easy to learn especially if you played piano its just about stretching your fingers, when i started I could go index to pinky 1st to 5th and now I can reach much further just from playing all the time. | ||
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Krohm
Canada1857 Posts
On September 06 2008 20:34 yubee wrote: don't cop out and just say small hands, you just have to practice stretching them. i couldn't stretch from 5-8 when i first started playing and now if i needed to i could hit 5-10 easily Yeah I had the same problem. This one song I really liked you had to stretch all over the fucking place, I couldn't do it. Now I can do it no problem. The same thing happened with using my pinky finger, I couldn't use it at first. Now I can use it just like any other one. I still have problems with fast solos though. Seems inhumanly possible some of them. | ||
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
On September 06 2008 20:34 yubee wrote: don't cop out and just say small hands, you just have to practice stretching them. i couldn't stretch from 5-8 when i first started playing and now if i needed to i could hit 5-10 easily I see. Btw I didn't cop out, I've been spamming it heh. | ||
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
On September 06 2008 18:44 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: look at this are you trying to hold the 2nd and 3rd strings on the fifth fret with your index and middle fingers like in the first diagram? because you should be holding your index finger across the fifth fret of all three and holding the 8th fret on the first string with your pinky like in the second diagram Did I ever mention how awesome you are? :-D (btw i am playing the check version) | ||
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
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blabber
United States4448 Posts
Like for your pinky, you want it to be just to the left of the bar that separates 8th and 9th fret. Not sure how much difference this will make, but this was what I was taught to do | ||
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
On September 07 2008 08:20 blabber wrote: you're probably not pressing firmly enough. Also the optimal position of your fingers would be just to the left (when you're looking from above the guitar) of the fret divider thing (not sure what it's called, lol). Like for your pinky, you want it to be just to the left of the bar that separates 8th and 9th fret. Not sure how much difference this will make, but this was what I was taught to do yes, this is true. the reason for this is that you're actually holding the string against the fret markers, shortening the length of string that vibrates and therefore playing a different note you need to make sure you're pressing the string firmly against it, and holding the string down just behind it is the way to go | ||
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