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Building hand strength
I'm a sixteen year old female guitarist. I enjoy playing acoustic guitar most. I play a lot, but my bar chords don't really ring and have a lot of dead strings, especially in the first few frets. I think this is because I don't have a lot of hand strength. Are there any exercises suited to small hands that will both help me with finger strength and not give me any more calluses and "man-hands" than I have?
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If you don't want to buy hand grips you can always wrap rubber bands around your fingers and try and spread your fingers out as much as you can against the resistance. Or you can fill a jar with a little bit of weight and get your fingers inside and try to lift the jar and hold it as long as you can using the backs of your extended fingers (Bruce Lee did this a lot to build up his grip strength).
Another idea is my personal favorite- just get a newspaper and start in one corner of a page and hold you arm stretched all the way out, palm down and roll the newspaper up into a ball using only your fingers (no palm) That one burns ;-)
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Try purchasing handgrips from walmart or target. They are like a stress manuver but hard to open and close which will put your hand muscles to work. Any other squeeze stress tool will help you benefit as well.
Hope I helped!
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