Anyone here play the guitar?

i_heart_bones wrote:

RGPageantqueen wrote:Thanks! I'm having trouble with my pointer finger, I think it's too small to cover the whole fret... It always crosses into the other fret....

Yeah small hands are a problem! Just practice! Not saying you can grow your fingers But the more you play the more flexible your pinky becomes...kind of sounds strange...

I probably need to get a better fitted neck cause my is a standard adult size neck. I probably need a 3/4 neck. I was looking at a few the other, I found a gorgeous Epiphone that was really amazing and perfect size. I also found a Taylor that I fell in love with... The guitar I really want is $4,000 it looks like Taylor Swift's and it sounds amazing... I just hate having such small hands. But if kids can play guitar, so can I....

I can play the guitar, It just hurts more now than it does for most people.

bones206 wrote:I don't play the guitar, but you could use a guitar pick, couldn't you? or those finger ring pick things. The ones that are pretty much guitar picks on rings...

I wasn't talking about the strumming, but where you press your fingers to the different strings to make different notes.

Ah, I totally knew that.........



I didn't.....

bones206 wrote:Ah, I totally knew that.........



I didn't.....

Haha, well now you do and knowledge is power, yeah?

RGPageantqueen wrote:

i_heart_bones wrote:

RGPageantqueen wrote:Thanks! I'm having trouble with my pointer finger, I think it's too small to cover the whole fret... It always crosses into the other fret....

Yeah small hands are a problem! Just practice! Not saying you can grow your fingers But the more you play the more flexible your pinky becomes...kind of sounds strange...

I probably need to get a better fitted neck cause my is a standard adult size neck. I probably need a 3/4 neck. I was looking at a few the other, I found a gorgeous Epiphone that was really amazing and perfect size. I also found a Taylor that I fell in love with... The guitar I really want is $4,000 it looks like Taylor Swift's and it sounds amazing... I just hate having such small hands. But if kids can play guitar, so can I....

Nice! My first guitar was an epiphone acoustic electric. I pretty much just play my Fender accoustic all the time now. Love it!

I love Fender, my electric is a fender strat, but I never use it. My current is a gibson. I love guitars except that they strip fingers...

Nice! I too rock out a standard strat. Im currently in the process of trying by a les paul, but im guessing so is everyone else!

i_heart_bones wrote:Nice! I too rock out a standard strat. Im currently in the process of trying by a les paul, but im guessing so is everyone else!

psht, you know it. They were expensive to begin with you know they're going to be ridic.. now!

haha i know right!

Still we can all dream....

Although I love Strats - if you have a hand without long fingers - the Gibson necks are going to be slightly easier to play. It's sort of a toss-up, however, as the scale length of the neck is shorter on a Gibson but the fingerboard width is wider than a Fender. Acoustics have always found me gravitating back to Epiphones. They are inexpensive, easy to play and have really good tone for the money. You are also likely to need to learn variations of the standard chords - especially the barre chord forms. There are rock "shortcuts " that reduce the chords to their minimal components to achieve the desired results. These are designed for speed as well as ease of jumping from position to position more fluidly.

I believe that you will find that speed will become your greatest asset. The thing most players need to master, anyway, is applying just enough force to make the strings ring without buzzing. Most people squeeze the neck too hard - strangling the guitar and choking their ability to move smoothly and effortlessly around the neck. The true secrets to guitar playing are the lightest touch possible and memorizing the notes on every string at every fret. A guitar has two octaves of frets but four octaves of notes!

I'm sure you will do fine . . Django Rheinhardt was one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of the past century who, after an accident, had only two usable fingers on his fretting hand!