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Does finger lengh affect your playing?
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El Kiko
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From: The South Ireland
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Does finger lengh affect your playing?
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People. I have a question and a problem and a theory etc. that I need some feedback on, if poss. It is no secret to many people here and around the world that I am really, really bad at tremolo, and other stuff as well. But what I want to know is if there is any connection between finger lengh and ability ( or usefulness ) of playing. I have noticed that my M, finger seems a lot longer than the others What I mean is I can do picado , as best I can with I, M, but its not that much different using I, A, possibly because I , and A fingers are more the same lengh, making it more even, So if I do a picado run without thinking too much ( easy for me :) its mainly I, M, but the A finger kicks in from time to time , This happens with some types of rasgueardo , there is one that is used wihich is a continuos P(up) M(down) P(down) .repeat..... but once again I find it more natural to make it P(up) A(down) P(down) .repeat..... So here's the thing , ¿do better players have more evenly mathched finger lengh? or is this just some kind of elaboate excuse I am inventing to have an excuse for being such a bad guitarrist :) ? or both To this I add a pic of my hand and ask others from the really bad to the fantastic players for comment or even add a pic for comparison. Although my tremolo is improving it is very slow and I wonder how fingers affect it all. Thank you
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Date Aug. 8 2011 12:52:28
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Ricardo
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From: Washington DC
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RE: Does finger lengh affect your pl... (in reply to El Kiko)
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What matters is angle of attack. If you curl your fingers, all become the same length as the string sees em. If you play more straight, then you will notice the awkward problems of the middle finger being longer. The way to play with fingers curved is a big concern for some folks it seems, and affects wrist hand arm and thumb position. Thumb to the side, flat wrist, flat hand, straight on, curved fingers, illusion of middle joint powering strokes, proper nail shape is flat, etc, all related. See recent post about arp postion where many flamenco teachers seem to advocate the thumb out to the side (hence curved fingers, hence easier tremolo etc....) Ricardo
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Date Aug. 9 2011 6:24:40
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Ruphus
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RE: Does finger lengh affect your pl... (in reply to El Kiko)
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Though prepared for possibly convincing news to the contrary, I never expected much from morphologically based deductions. So far they appear to only feed the old & handy request for shortcuts / superstitious categorizing, in opposition to the burdensome requirements of reasonable observation. ( My sister doctorated summa cum laude decades ago on her thesis that fingerprints could indicate chronical deseases, without - as far as I know - any practice of it sustaining today. Just saying.) Like with the asumption that prehistorical relicts of 2D:4D digit ratio were to indicate prenatal exposure to androgenes, hence more agression in adulthood. Which again is being equaled with prehistorically higher competition and promiscuity as alleged consequence. This is jumping from one assumption to another. Where is the back-up for the claim that monogamous sexual life was meaning less competition; the more as occupancy equals sexual "territorial defence"? And what about the unconsidered option of initial promiscuity resulting into just the more functional monogamy in an individual´s life time? - I don´t give much on attempted equalization of extremities to inner physiology, lesser even to mental characteristics. Had I done so however, by now I might have been with one passion less, besides. For, some self-deemed specialist ( and diviner ) took my teenage hand once, and after a look claimed that my hands weren´t suited for guitar playing. Glad to have not listened / not put aside the instrument. - What I can agree too is that the more even in length RH fingers are, the more handy they might come in for guitar playing. But one shouldn´t pay attention / not let oneself be discouraged by such in the first place. As mentioned above, curled fingers shall equal out ( which I wasn´t aware of; thanks Ricardo!) and even more: their different lenghts will be much compensated by lateral planting / slight turn of the wrist. I recommend avoiding perpendicular posture of the fingertips, which will only introduce motoric detouring / needless extensor activity ( independently of how well one might overcome it ). As long as the ellbow is rested correctly, the hand will drop in the right way by itself ( with a slight lower arm / wrist turn towards inside )/ without extra efforts for fingers angled starting position. Ruphus
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Date Aug. 9 2011 12:50:04
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