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Post subject: What to do for a guitarist with fat stubby fingers...?
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:31 pm
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I'd love to play strats and teles but with my fingers it's really hard to bar chords...

I can bar chords on mandolin and banjo but somehow it's really hard to bar chords on guitar...

any advice?

I was thinking about getting a jaguar because of the shorter length...or just asking around if i could get a custom made guitar shorter than that...


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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:37 pm
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Shorter scales guitars tend to have less string tension--so barre chords may be a bit easier on them.

I know when I'm trying to play something that I'm having trouble with--I try it on my Mustang--and it's easier--then I can go to my other guitars--and play it better on them as well.

And I have long slender fingers.

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