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Old January 9th, 2007
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I have giant bratwurst sausage fingers and had a similar problem, I still do have slight problem when I am not concentrating but you will learn little tricks (bad habits teachers call them) to combat this when your head is just not with it. I will not tell you my tricks as it is cheating and you will never forgive me. Not very helpful am i?

OK my big problem is A and B7 and a few of the Hendrix style chords up the fret board and if I dont hit the strings perfectly I will mute others and sounds odd. For A I often play a mini barre with one finger, if I find that I am holding down the little E string I will either mute it fully or not play it at all. I did play around with a different fingering and that helped for a while but I tend to use a barre now. B7 is trickier, if I miss that it mainly down to not getting my 2nd finger on the big E string cleanly so again I will barre the E and A strings until a suitable pause when I reset my fingers. Sounds slightly strange but not as bad a dud string.

I am getting better week on week and so will you, I have even played on a diddy mandolin and eukalalee (you know that 4 string mini guitar type thing). Soon you will tearing up the fretboard like Hendrix dont panic too much

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