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Originally Posted by mikegreen402
I have recently acquired an acoustic guitar. Unfortunately, i have rather large fingers and am struggling to get a lot of chords.
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Hi Mike,
I had
huge fingers when I first started playing. But one of the mysteries of guitar, is that the more I practised the smaller they got.....
I bought a classical style style acoustic soon after starting, because it had a much wider neck, which I thought would be easier to find room for my fingers (and it was too). But it didn't take long before I moved back onto the steel string.
Much of the process of learning guitar (or any instrument) involves making very tiny adjustments in position, and slowly 'patterning' them into your brain (or in my case, what's left of my brain...). It's something that can't really be fully explained with charts and diagrams, only learned by practice and by changes made in small steps. One day you realise it's just 'happening'..... music voodoo in action...
If you check out videos of some of the old blues players, many of them had fingers that looked like sacks of potatoes, and you wonder how the heck they're playing so well.... but they are...
Another thing I tried was to pick up a mandolin very now and then. Mandolins have tiny narrow necks - it feels like trying to play a chopstick...
But, if you take your time you can still form a chord and play it. After a few minutes of that, go back to the guitar and the neck feels as wide as a freeway.
Good luck,
Chris