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Position:Home>Performing Arts> My fingers? For guitar?Question:My tall man is like 7.5 centimetres, My pinky, is only 5, in centimetres. Am I able to play the classical guitar ? Dont tell me to buy new guitars, I'm using the hand-overs from my dad, so yeah. Its classical guitar by the way. Thanks ;) Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My tall man is like 7.5 centimetres, My pinky, is only 5, in centimetres. Am I able to play the classical guitar ? Dont tell me to buy new guitars, I'm using the hand-overs from my dad, so yeah. Its classical guitar by the way. Thanks ;) Lay your fingers down straight across the fretboard (perpendicular) and then pull them up slowly until they make a bridge or an arch. When you do this, you will begin to realize that you have much more to work with than you thought. Put your thumb at the curve of the neck where you can get a good clamp out of it, and move the neck around, up and down, back and forward, until you can hold it comfortably in that position. I tuck my elbow into my side and hold out my hand like I want something, then drop the neck into my hand. This works with most models of guitars including classical, but you may want to hold the neck a tiny bit lower with a full size dreadnought. Hope this helps. if you can reach the strings with all of your fingers,then yes you can play classical guitar. sure my guitar teacher was missing 2 fingers......i didnt say he was any good......he was very affordable hey, my guitar teacher only had on hand and he was awesome! Yes you can do it! BTW Thank you, Mr Gibson, I know your are pickin and grinnin in Heaven! So yes, hang in there and stick withit- even if you have to figure a different way to do some chords. It's not the fingers, it's the guitarist. Don't give up. Have you heard of Li Jie ? She is a Chinese classical guitarist. When she was younger her teachers refused to take her on because they said her hands and fingers were too small. But she kept nagging them until they took her. She has proved them all wrong. The size of your hands is never a problem. You can overcome all problems with good technique. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJfigIzhI... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szY7jmWHX... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H36vL3MzQ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlXlaOeYl... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Jie I hear this all the time.....and one of the worlds most famous classical guitarist, Andre Segovia had little fat sausage fingers....the whole trick is playing correctly. Your thumb has to be placed in the middle of the back of the neck of the guitar....take note : This women is the most famous guitarist in the world, and she's beautiful also.....go on youtube and type in her name, she's spells it different then most, Liona Boyd plays Spanish Romance, and watch where her thumb is....listen to her play some other pieces too, her tremolo is the best that I've ever heard. Size doesn't matter it's the correct position of you thumb, your fingers should be perpendicular to the strings on the finger board, this makes you able to reach all the strings, I know I have a small little finger also.....but with practice playing correctly you'll be able to do this trust me.....I taught classical and acoustic for years !!!!!!!!!! If you can find videos of Andre Segovia, you'll see that he had very short stubby fingers. That never stopped him from practically single-handedly reviving the popularity of the instrument. I do realize that you are playing a classical guitar, which I am not very familiar with, but I'd have to agree with everything cconsaul has said. When I started, I had pudgy short fingers too, and the first riff I learned to play properly was Metallica's Enter Sandman. There's only one thing I can promise you: play for 15-45 minutes daily, and within 2-3 months it'll feel like you've been playing for years. Good luck! my fingers are smaller than your I been playin guitar for around 7 years in a band already Best Regards Toemme Size or length of fingers has nothing to do with playing. Period. I teach little 7 yrs old and some of them are pretty good at stretched chords. Just finger stretch the farthest you can with the pinky and eventually, it will be second nature to you. But don;t just try once and forget about it. If you have long fingers, it won't make you play faster or give you more agility. If some tend to argue my statement, how come Django Reindhart only had 2 fingers and did arpeggios better than people with 4 fingers ? |