7 Tips To Play Guitar With Small Hands
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❤️ Community Campus & Learning Forum. Join a welcoming and supportive community of guitar learners. In this video Mike shares his best tips for playing guitar with small hands. This is quite a common problem and people with small hands can get really down about it. This video will share some specific tricks you can try today to play chords easier, feel more comfortable and confident about playing your guitar tonight. We hope you love this video! If you enjoy this, head over to our site and check out some of our other free guitar guides, downloads and goodies. https://nationalguitaracademy.com
If you want to know how to play guitar with small hands and/or short fingers, this video will help you a lot.
So many students have asked me over the years:
– Can I play guitar with small hands?
– What’s the easiest guitar to play with small hands
– Can people with small hands play guitar?
– How should I approach playing guitar chords with small hands?
So we made this video to help. Enjoy!
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Of course no one is the exception if you buy a smaller guitar but the problem is that smaller guitars are either crap or way expensive with little in between.
Hi Mike, downloaded your stepping stone chord book which was very helpful. Question for you, would a 3/4 acoustic guitar be better as my hands are smallish. Looking at getting a Yamaha 3/4 acoustic, i have a Yamaha and epiphone full size guitars at the moment the epiphone is a jumbo. Regards – Andy
"Parlor" guitars are tempting to small-hand players, but caution: many parlors have wide nut-widths, thick neck profiles, and relatively flat fretboard radiuses. The short scale-length may be a plus, but having only 12 frets to the neck means the frets are spaced slightly farther apart.
Please don't minimize the matter as if we small-hand players are saying we can't play AT ALL. We can play, but it's demonstrably more difficult and limiting, and the guitar manufacturers are not much help.
Guitar manufacturers are stupid for not serving this market–with various combinations of nut widths, neck thickness/profile, fretboard radius, scale length, etc. In many cases, manufacturers do not even publish key dimensions/specifications.
Im just starting at 45. I put it off for many years. Im not letting my small hands be the deciding factor! Thanks for the video
Sir, great video but what is all that stuff sitting on your headstock? I was trying to see what brand guitar you have but can’t. It looks kinda, well you know.
Why don't companies vary neck thickness some companies for their guitars only make thick necks. Even a small amount of difference in thickness makes a huge difference. I can play fenders but g and l are too thick. Some companies are anti small fingers . They call me little finger .
Would you say it helps a beginner to get a amp?
I think the electric guitar just sounds better through a amp.
Or should a beginner lear to play a little before forking over the dough for a amp?
Being a beginner, my budget would be $150-$200
My pinky is half of everyone else's.
I have really small hands and a small reach. Like I said in another video my pinky the middle bone is missing so it's short and there are just things I cannot do. it makes me sad. but anyway what guitar do you recommend a neck wise for thinness and good sound
Appreciate the concern, although minimizing the phenomenon. This guy's pinky is longer than my middle finger.
It's not merely a matter of "reach." It's also lack of finger-strength, requiring painful additional effort. And finger-strength is difficult to build. Fingers are not biceps.
I have small and slim hands my finger slips between the strings since the tip is so small that's why whenever I play guitar and Uke, I need to look to avoid it sometimes ????
I have been trying to learn for 12 years now starting at 48. i have short fat fingers along with severe carpal tunnel. problem is i cant play the way i want to play, not that i cant. actually my biggest problem is i have no auditory memory, i hear nothing in my head. brain injury from childhood. so i cant play a whole song. try that one on for size. injury happened at 8, at 6 i could read music and play piano. lost everything.
It might be difficult to play someone's riff but when we create our own music, we do it in our comfort zone. So no issues
YES!! "Guitar is for everybody." I love that – nice tips in this video, as I have some short fingers. Been playing on and off for almost 40 years, with the last few having been the most positive and productive (and the most enjoyable, because of small guitars and extra-light gauge strings – so important). Nice video!!
Can I use these methods to learn Bass guitar please
Excellent comments and suggestions. Like this gentleman said, someone could have large hands but then be weak in another area and it balances out anyway. Got to stay positive.
There was a doctor who I saw for a minor problem that when I told him I was beginning classical guitar lessons he said "you'll never play guitar with those little hands"! I made a face and said watch me. I am still thank God for that doctor!????????????❤️what a motivator!
amazing tips
I am cursed with a short little finger that won't let me stretch across the frets, if it's below the 5th fret I really struggle to stretch, for a 12 bar etc.
Just started learning and Mark, these videos are great. Very relaxed, informative, and positive. Also, the fact you are from the Mersey (I guess this based on your accent) makes it even better.
this helped a lot thanks man!
They should make guitar for small hands..
I’ve had a small hand hang up since first playing at 14. My index and pinkie fingers bend in at the top cutting off an additional 3cm of dinger spread/reach.
However since retiring and having more time to practice I’ve realised that I’m getting close to be able to play most things I thought were impossible for me. So practice/positioning really does make a difference.
I’m a huge John (spider fingers) McLaughlin fan and have been trying to play his Shakti pieces for 40 years.
I’m around 80 to 95 % there due to practice. There will always be some chords I can’t play but I try to play what I can to substitute. Learning Guardian Angel which has a tutorial on YouTube was a turning point as I can now play it almost faultlessly and would not have believed that was possible.
Remember that John states that there are still runs which Django Reinhardt (who played with 2 fingers only) played which he can’t emulate.
Try out guitars that suit your playing style or your hoped-for style. Try them all several times. Some guitar chords will be a stretch which is where practice and muscle memory is part of the deal. Some guitars sound better with certain gauge strings. Adapt, adjust, and cope. Keep at it.
That was a really helpful video! To the point, actually gave tips (and good practical tips!), this video made me interested to learn more about your teaching techniques and the “easier” variants of chords so thank you very much ????????
He is right about the light string ssd's if your new and short handed they help a lot, and get a thin gutiar as well, something I wish I had done as a beginner
Another person with huge hands (his little finger is longer than my middle finger) telling us there's no problem playing guitar with small hands!!!
It makes me sick when I hear this BS over and over "there is no such thing as small hands, everyone can play guitar… blah, blah". Fuck, yes , everyone can run 100 meters in 9 seconds, you just keep running, and you will make it in your next life when you are born as Carl Lewis or maybe cheetah. You can play guitar with the smallest hands, but your chances of becoming a guitar virtuoso are close to zero.