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ninjaeric999
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ninjaeric999
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02/23/2023 6:09 am

Started playing a month ago. I have tried moving my thumb around, pushing my fingers with my other hand. No matter what, when I curl my ring and or pinky finger to fret the strings they point inwards at a 45 degree angle and my pinky almost 75. I have been doing finger streaches for a month now and chords are improving but any kind of chords like 5th fret b third fret a barley work. I can only get the strings down at the back of the frets resulting is buzzing or slipping over. Certian chords are seemingly impossible to hold even if I position my fingers first with my other hand. When i need to use my pinky on top of things like that it's even worse. It seems like the bone structure of my hands is keeping me from playing certian chords rather then a flexibility problem. Has anyone else had this problem? If so did stretching eventually help?