JasonWood
Blues Newbie
I really hope this is in the right place as far as questions go. I have been playing guitar for 20 some odd years. Iv'e never been great. Picked up bass in 2004, and I've done quite well with that. Gigged a bunch, recorded some albums, and had a lot of fun! Now I,m back at some guitar work again. Which brings me to he question.
I have and continue to have trouble with a 4 fret stretch. I recall trying to learn "Every Move You Make" by the Police back in 99 or so. I had a hard time getting my piney to reach the 4th fret when in a Barre chord. Enter today, and trying to reach the 4th fret (not sure what its called, the hammer on shuffle sound with the pinky, kind of like a suspended chord) in an A7th or E7th barre chord makes for a lot of dead strings for me. I have short fingers I guess. Griff posted something about a 12 bar blues shuffle and playing along without a backing track the other day. So I tried it again. I can reach it, but my piney hags on some of the strings giving a muted sound. I can always play the chord short a few strings, but I would prefer to overcome this and be able o get a 6 string full strum out of it for a shuffle rhythm part.
Any ideas? Stretching? Voodoo dolls? New guitar? Just hire a real guitar player and stick to bass?
Thanks guys! Jason
I have and continue to have trouble with a 4 fret stretch. I recall trying to learn "Every Move You Make" by the Police back in 99 or so. I had a hard time getting my piney to reach the 4th fret when in a Barre chord. Enter today, and trying to reach the 4th fret (not sure what its called, the hammer on shuffle sound with the pinky, kind of like a suspended chord) in an A7th or E7th barre chord makes for a lot of dead strings for me. I have short fingers I guess. Griff posted something about a 12 bar blues shuffle and playing along without a backing track the other day. So I tried it again. I can reach it, but my piney hags on some of the strings giving a muted sound. I can always play the chord short a few strings, but I would prefer to overcome this and be able o get a 6 string full strum out of it for a shuffle rhythm part.
Any ideas? Stretching? Voodoo dolls? New guitar? Just hire a real guitar player and stick to bass?
Thanks guys! Jason