Are Your Hands Too Small To Play Guitar? What Can You Do About It?
Are your hands too small to play guitar? Do you have any trouble playing those 'stretchy' scales and chords that other guitarist can play with ease? Do you think that the size of your hands is holding you back?
If you have small hands, I do really understand your plight. I have fairly small hands too (in fact many of my female students have larger hands than mine!), so I know how frustrating it is to not have that extra hand reach that other players naturally have.
At this point I would really like to tell you that there is a miracle method to make your fingers longer - but sadly that method does not exist.
There is good news, though: even if you have short fingers there is a technique that you can use that will give you much more reach that what you thought possible, so you too will be able to play those 'stretchy' positions. Here it is:
As you can see, just changing your hand position has a MASSIVE impact on your hands reach!
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