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Location: Flahdaw | When I measure the maximum distance I can spread my thumb and pinkie, it comes to 8 1/2" tip to tip. I'm learning a new song (drop D)where one of the chords is 500032 (low to high)where the 2 is hammered on. I'm about 50/50 getting that high E clean or the palm muting it. It's pissing me off. Are my hands tiny, or is this just a tough chord??? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Approx 7-1/2"
So stop yer bitchin' |
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Location: Flahdaw | Well yeah, but you have hands like a Ken doll. |
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Location: Parrish, FL | I'm 9 1/4". (That's across my palm so we are clear what I'm talkin about.)
So what, I still can't make them move with any kind of coordination to produce what you'd want to call music like you do, so stop your whining!
(The other) Brad |
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Location: Bellevue, Washington | 9 1/2" here... but I still can't easily make that reach! |
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| Just spreading my fingers as far as I can, it's 9-3/4" tip-to-tip. I can easily fret that shape you describe on my 1-11/16" nut guitars; not quite as cleanly, but doable with practice on my 1-3/4" nut guitars. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | 8-&-1/4"- and that's with my good hand. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Funny, the distance from my thumb to pinkie is the same as my thumb to ring finger. If I use my ring finger, it changes the hand configuration and doesn't mute as much as using the pinkie. Weird.
Still, I'm learning an Eric Bibb song that he plays so clean, and he has leprechaun hands (like Slipkid). My hands SEEM to be bigger, but there ya go..... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | 8-7/8", and I can make the chord, but it isn't very comfy. I suppose it has as much to do with the shape and dexterity of our fingers as it does finger length and palm spread. Long-fingered guys always have it easier. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | The distance from my thumb to my ring-finger is Farther than my thumb to pinky.
Shouldn't the measurement be how far you can spread from your index to your pinky?
I can make the chord... It isn't comfortable, nor is it a nice sounding chord.
Isn't there something else that you can put in it's place? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Do it the easy way, drop the 5.....
...you can pick it up in passing earlier or later if it's important to the overall tonality.
But I'm lazy. On a good day, my hands reach all the way to the guitar. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was about to measure mine and then decided you guys are just too f---ing weird. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Mark... I know you figured that out a long time ago yet you're still here.
Come on... man up and measure up. |
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Location: Ohio | Guess I have Herman Munster Hands... 9.5"
Steve |
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Location: Flahdaw | Doesn't owning a Porsche add a couple of inches? |
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Location: closely held secret | Only on the backside. |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Hell, I had to go measure too....9 1/8th.
But my fingers aren't long, I've just got wide ass hands, I tried it and that chord is rough for me. |
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Location: NW Washington State | I put it on the table and measured thumb-to-pinky and thumb-to-index at 7 inches. Maybe 7.5 if I stretch 'til it hurts.
Remember, size doesn't matter. I'd be equally inept even if I had larger hands.
-Steve W. |
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| Originally posted by fillhixx:
Do it the easy way, drop the 5..... Sometimes you can't. In this piece there are a couple of phrases that require the bass note played with the pinkie on the 5th fret of the low E string to hold a full measure while you play a descending melody line on the 1st and second frets of the treble strings. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Wow! That was beautiful. Makes what I'm trying to learn sound like "twinkle, twinkle" |
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Location: Colorado | 8.5" but short fingers... |
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Location: south east Michigan | 7-1/2 too, eh numbfingers?
I feel your pain. |
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Location: Newington, CT | 10.75...So, if I understood that correctly, it's like doing an open strings "G" cowboy chord, while putting the pinky on "A" of the high "E" string?
If so, it was easier for me to do the "G" cowboy chord and just add the pinky on the "A," while leaving the ring finger right where it sat on the "G" of the high "E" string.
Yes, it's redundant, and doesn't affect the sound because it's the pinky fretting "A" on the high "E" string. However, it made it so that I could go right to the chord.
Of course, that's if I understood it correctly in the first place. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | 9 1/2, but I'm not going to try that chord. |
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Location: Colorado | So Mark, you just couldn't stay away... |
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Let's measure ourselves.
