hand size and being good.

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Unread post by Grachi » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:25 pm

the only importance it holds is if you had really abnormally small hands and you wernt able to get your fretting hand around the neck properly to reach the strings.
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Unread post by Jester29 » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:34 am

b_fost wrote:One thing that's nice is big thumbs, for playing chords commonly used by John Mayer, to fret the bass note with your thumb. Hand size is something that is basically just an excuse though, either you have big hands or small hands, just make do (due?) with what you have.
Like you said, work with what you've got...

My hands are on the small side (not much bigger than my petite, 5'2" wife's hands -- stretching from pinky to thumb, I can reach from A to " on my keyboard... and my middle finger doesn't even fully span 5 keys from tip to palm), but I've always hooked my thumb around to fret F, F#, G (etc.) on the low E string.

(sorry for the key measurements - no ruler nearby!)
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