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Small hands!
ARGH.
So I'm trying to learn guitar, but I can barely stretch a comfortable octave on the piano.
Are there any finger stretching exercises I could do to get my fingers to...you know, like, work? Lol...
I find myself using my middle finger a lot (right now I'm just working on memorizing which notes are where), so the other fingers don't really get a whole lot of streching.
I had a friend laugh out loud when he watched me play Moonlight Sonata 'cause my thumb and pinky fingers were like straight lines trying to stretch the octave.
So yeah. Small hands, wanna play guitar (electric, not acoustic...not even gonna try that), need finger stretches.
No chatspeak, please!
-Siren =)
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go up and down the first 4 frets on all strings with each finger
like, first finger on first fret, and then pinky on the 4th fret
you might want to try it starting at higher frets, like, 5-9, but when you can get 1-4 it should be good enough to play just about everything.
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well once you play the guitar long enough your fingers automatically begin to stretch more so just play alot. Even i can't reach all of them with some of the cords they have. But i figure i'll learn those last lol.
h.i.h.
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My suggestions:
You CAN get a smaller scale guitar - there are 3/4 scale guitars, "0" scale guitars, etc... it might be worth your while to look into some of these "alternate" scales to better fit your hands.
You can work on increasing your finger dexterity, but you can't really get your hand to grow. You can increase the spread between fingers as well as hand strength and flexibility in getting your hands into some more complex/awkward chord fingerings.
You might consider any exercize that forces you to play repettitive large intervals, or to find alternate ways to get the same interval with less span (such as F to C... why go from the 1st fret on the low E string to the 9th fret, when you can play C on the 3rd fret on the A string?)
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you cant stretch your fingers out but you can do certain things to get them used to stretching across the neck of your guitar.. try playing the chords that are hard over and over and it should become easy.
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You're in luck. You don't need big hands to play guitar; that's just a silly rumor. To strengthen your fingers, there are little weights that you can find in music catalogs like Musician's Friend; creatively enough called finger weights. To "stretch" them out, unfortunately, you're just gonna have to practice every day. It'll get easier with time, though. Good luck.
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I'm also just starting to play guitar (acoustic). Except my fingers are long. My teacher says you should practise hand positions like every day for 10 minutes. It seems a waste but it REALLY helped me. Before my fingers were like all over and weird, now I can control them. Everything gets better with practise! Good luck! =)
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