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Thankyuh grandpaa!!

Thank you, you gave me hope, great video🙂

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Congratulations. Your fingers are far from short with good dexterity. I’ve got short fat top fingers which makes playing difficult which makes certain cords getting played with adjacent strings 😏. 👍🫡

I can say that TH-cam algrithm works so well these days to reccomended me this brilliant vid!! God bless you Mr. Morrison!

Thank you, Grandpa. I also struggle with "short sausage fingers".

Subbed my mentor.

what an absolute sweetheart. Just beginning and concerned about how I will play a guitar with as I am a female with small hands and arm reach

Small hands = smal pxxxx.... Big feet = big pxxxx 😂😂😂

Thank you so much, i really enjoyed your video! I have small hands as well. Im trying to learn to play the mandolin. I know it seems small, but I still have problems reaching. I will try your method. 😊❤

My only regret.....I just found you,very inspirational.Cheers hope your in good health. Sure of stretched my fingers and disjointed them.

I've got small hands and short fingers. Though im 5ft 9. I think its a genetic thing cos ive only got one crease on my right hand little finger. And ive read its sumnat to do with that. I dont think my hands are quite as small as yours,but its literally millimeters of difference Anyway i play rock and metal and yes its very challenging. Some things are sadly impossible to play. So things ive found that help. You want to be playing higher up the neck. After the 14th or 15th fret this disadvantage disappears mostly and my liitle fingers have no problems fitting in between the frets,especially with big frets. Don"t play up and down the neck. I know it sounds great but you'll run into serious issues. Try to learn to sweep pick. And play uo and down in the scale. Play every day and warm up exercises are a must. Learn fast alternate picking with inside and outside escapes and use a jazz 3 dunlop pick. The original small one not the XL. Learn to economy pick and or directional picking. Legato is a must,as is tapping. Even though my little fingers prevent me getting Ed's stretch on ice cream man solo. I can actually play eruption with the 7-4-0 pullofs. For your fretting hand. Don"t leave your index finger anchored on and widdle away with your 3rd and 4th. Discard it as soon as you play it and use one finger per note. With the others hovering Try it and see. That helps a lot. Press only as hard as is needed to sound the note. No more and don"t press hard with your thumb. And dont leave your thumb behind the index finger. Put it more centrally. Hope this helps guys

You're a great actor! Really talented! 😊😊😊

The best advice i ever received from a teacher was " the only thing stopping you from playing guitar is yourself." Best advice i ever received.

a global treasure this one right here

I hope your doing well sir.

Thank you so much! You are the man!

Wonderfully helpful - thank you!

If you ever wanted to know what a true gentleman looks like nowadays - here it is! 🙏

I’m not sure exactly how good of a tip this is considering I just recently came across the idea, but with small hands myself, I still find playing barre difficult for long periods of time. I watched a video a few weeks ago with a guy asking if I’ve ever wondered ho a tiny eight-year-old girl can be playing barre chords so well. We’ve all seen those videos right? And I said, heck yeah! How on earth? He said the small children are sort of pulling with their arm to add pressure to the strings. That’s something that’s never occurred to me. It seemed like bad technique so I never even considered it. it will take some time to get it right where I’m not overdoing it, but I can tell it’s making it easier already.

Hope you’re still rocking ol’ chap! 🎸

Get a 7/8 size guitar.

"Yes, dear." LOL Spot on! With 52 years of marital experience (with the same women), I emphatically agree!

Excellent lesson. As a short finger player. My middle is but 3 and a quarter. I can rip through scales yet have little clue of music theory. Practice made it possible, yet I most often get lost trying to improvise. The fingers will find a way to play. Best wishes and long life to you.

Thank you Morrison!

Mate you are an absolute legend with your comments on short (and fat) fingers. What I have done is taken a 12 strings guitar with a wider neck and removed 6 strings . I fitted a new nut with string spacings to suits me and allowed a little more space from the e strings (both 1 & 6) to the edge of the neck. This gives me more space between strings to avoid buzzing. You are spot on, there is compromise between neck width and string spacing for the short fingered person. We need more shared tips from those who have tried various solutions. Thanks again Ross Brisbane Australia

I’ve always had small hands too and really struggle! My first guitar had a really thick neck and it pretty much put me off! But I persevered and eventually got a new guitar with a thinner neck and started to make progress!

Cool special effects! 😉 "I'll just move that out of the way; it'll probably fall off the table." Anyway, I am in my 60's, short arms and fingers, trying to learn guitar, and just last night I had to leave off practicing because I felt like I was about to get an actual sore on the knuckle that presses the high e string during bar chords. I really needed your help with the F chord. Thank you!

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I subscribed and I don’t even play guitar yet. Im 51 and never started because I felt my hands were to small. I am going all in now after this video.

I once saw a video of a bass player playing his instrument. The unusual thing about that guy was that he had an accident years earlier and lost half the length of his fingers on the left (fretting) hand. And he was _still_ able to play quite well. From that point onward I stopped worrying about the length of my fingers.

Your awesome!!

Great video. Still remain a problem, the companies which make guitars don't think of these ( or don't care of this part of players). As beginner, it's so difficult to find a "cheap" guitar to try with these options : not large neck, 3/4 .. And to complicate the situation I am left-handed. For small hands, the folk guitar is "better" because the neck, but it's hard to find 3/4 folk guitar ...

My guitar teacher always tried to get me to have my fingers pointed on the string like you were talking about. Well sorry Marv your fingers are like 3 inches longer than mine it ain’t happening. Nice to see people with hands like mine do exist out there!

I really enjoyed your video, your so charming

This was hilarious, I also remember another one would you like a spicy nan with salsa, of course they thought Naan bread when ordering

What a lovely old fella. Yes i have short fingers and small hands with zero stretch. I think it took me 6 mths to hit the barre chords fluently. Us short finger lot need to have the perseverance of a Jack Russell Terrier to play.

Hi there, I am Morrison! I hope you are doing well! Would you be able to make a video about how to play a clean "C" chord? God bless you! :)

you are awesome man

You’ve adapted all your life obviously, by as you say, being small. You also say you’re not a techie, so struggle with filming for TubeYou. Let me tell you something now, you are one amazing guy, an amazing lesson to us all. Try and fail maybe yes but try and try again and you will succeed eventually .. And you certainly don’t need to edit your videos, your concise, in focus and above all engaging.. I’m a little un too, my Dad used to tell me when i was learning to box in East Ham, I would often say, “ but they are all bigger than me “ he would reply.. “The bigger they are Son the harder they fall” Never forgot that and it has always put me in good stead, i went on to become a National schoolboy finalist representing Newham.. NOODLES..

thank you sir

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Im new here and i just subscribed. You are adorable ❤

Yeah I needed this

Hi Morrisson so happy to see you back in action! I have shoet fingers and they are stumpy too! I play and sing neverless! Who cares! As long as i enjoy ! Thanks for sharing ! Hope you are well and happy as always.

Sir, bigtime respect to you for retaining enough belief in humanity to make this most useful video. The wonderful spirit shines through the entire explanation! Thank you very much!

This is incredibly helpful, i always ended up giving up on playing the guitar a few times because of my short and stuby fingers. Thank you!

Fantastic video mate thank you so much, i hope your healthy and well

This video needs some more hit the bell. 😂

I love this guy