How to play guitar with small hands

>>18613360

Purchase a guitar with smaller frets and practice extra hard.

>>18613397
I'm currently practicing with an Ibanez Gio Grg 270 Dx, aren't those frets small enough? Or maybe I'm just doing it wrong?

>>18613411

>I'm currently practicing with an Ibanez Gio Grg 270 Dx, aren't those frets small enough?

Perhaps not. I do know that a lot of smaller handed players prefer fanned frets. Maybe you need to get some finger lessons and make sure you're practicing the right way.

>>18613423

>finger lessons

Yeah, I'll probably have to take some. Thanks.

>>18613431

Fingering lessons, I mean. I played the piano for 15 years and fingering exercises were a big chunk of my practice routine. Its one thing to know the music and the theory and a whole different thing to have the physical dexterity and strength necessary to play them. In a lot of ways you sometimes have to view each practice as independent of each other. A lot of players want to immediately jump into songs and chords and complicated runs but skip the hours of rather boring finger training and scale exercises to build the necessary strength and muscle memory to play. Don't skip the fundamentals.

Finger lessons.

>>18613360
What kids of music/styles of guitar?

Dad was a musician; he had high standards for us and we are a family of small hands. When he was a kid he would use large thread spools in between fingera rhen take them in place before bed. Like other anon said he did finger exercises every day after dinner until bed. He urged us all to do the same and we all did. It sucked but we are all better for it I think.

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>>18613360
>I struggle with finger movement
When you say this what do you mean? Is it a problem of finger independence (since guitar fingers are more complex than bass), a problem of not being able to reach all the notes you're trying to play, or a problem of not being able to move in the ways the style you want to play demands?

All of those can be overcome, but how to respond depends on which it is.

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