Playing guitar chords?

Question:I want to know, aside from practice, what else I can do to increase my finger speed, strength and finesse. What can I do to, aside from practice, so that my fingers can get to different chords and notes quickly. And I have tiny hands and sometimes can't reach certain frets when playing chords. What can I do to increase stretch and strength?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I want to know, aside from practice, what else I can do to increase my finger speed, strength and finesse. What can I do to, aside from practice, so that my fingers can get to different chords and notes quickly. And I have tiny hands and sometimes can't reach certain frets when playing chords. What can I do to increase stretch and strength?

For strength get a tennis ball or similar and squeeze repeatedly.

For stretching place hand on table or similar and spread fingers apart. Keeping all fingertips on the table move one finger at a time towards and away from other fingers. Do this every day. Next touch each fingertip to your thum tip creating a straight line through thumbnail and fingernail ie both nails face up. This helps to get joints used to twisting fingers as needed for some chord shapes.

Sorry about finesse - that only comes with practice on the beast.

Good luck.

Go to the Musician's Friend website and look for the finger exercise thingy. It really helps with that.
Besides that, try playing a song you know and making it faster and faster. If you screw up, do it again at the same speed until you get it right. That's what I did and I think I'm pretty good at chords. :]
Try learning some wicked guitar solo's. That increases speed and precision when laying down your fingers on the fret board.

Good luck!

One trick to stretch fingers is
Say your thumb is finger one, pointer finger #2, middle #3 etc

Put your right hand (Entire hand)
between 2 and 3 and spread your right hand apart..
Repeat betwen #3+#4 then #4+#5

And for speed, Try learning the song Freya By the sword
It helped me gain speed and being able to move my hands alot and do hammer ons and pull offs more easily

Email me at Chiodos367@yahoo.com if you need more advice

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