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beamer wrote:

MB or anyone else for that matter, I just posted up all my basic stuff on FB..

......but you forgot to post your Fb link so we cannot find it....

Rpger

oops.  http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1211582282  go to my pictures file and look for guitar stuff.  Everything i Scanned is in there.  look for the stretches for the fourth finger.  This lesson comes from "ARLEN ROTHS METAL METHOD"  GREAT BOOK,
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss? … tal+method

I xeroxed every page of it back in the day before scanners.   This exercise will make your pinky burn for a while.  I originally had all this stuff in step folders, to work people up to it.  I then let them have a copy of the Arlen book.  We stuck to four chord keg rock and beach / chapen stuff after that.......

Oh to have had Chordie and you tube back then.

MB or anyone else for that matter, I just posted up all my basic stuff on FB..

......but you forgot to post your Fb link so we cannot find it....

Rpger

So Roger, is it the case that over time, doing the kind of exercises you describe, I'll be able to not only get greater strength in my pinky, but be able to separate it farther away from my index finger?

MB,, for spreadability, you can use wadded up paper with masking tape or a raquet or squash ball.  Just incert itbetween your fingers and use the mussel to go back and fourth, and let it sit there and slowly strech your tendons.  oh and check your mail Ill send you a pinkey excercise that will really help in addition to what Rodger has told ya.

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Ok this mailer wont let me do an attachment,  If you would like this and some more, please e-mail me at beamerstrumpet@gmail.com,, Ill send you back some great finger excercises.

Roger

M.B. wrote:

For me, the F seems to be easier to do than a Bm--my nemesis!

Ignore the barre finger and think of the F as an E played with different fingers. Move those fingers playing the E up one string to the Am position (so you are actually playing Bbm) and practice the change back and forth. You should soon find that the Bbm becomes natural enough to play independantly and you can then move it up the fretboard for the Bm, Cm etc.

Roger

Thanks for the good advice, Roger; I'm working on that. Now, can you give me an exercise to get separation with my pinkie when doing an E7? My little finger doesn't want to separate from from my ring finger, and my muscles don't seem to work to get it to move away.

Thank!

For me, the F seems to be easier to do than a Bm--my nemesis!

Ignore the barre finger and think of the F as an E played with different fingers. Move those fingers playing the E up one string to the Am position (so you are actually playing Bbm) and practice the change back and forth. You should soon find that the Bbm becomes natural enough to play independantly and you can then move it up the fretboard for the Bm, Cm etc.

Roger

Good to have you joining us, Steelystrings. I totally agree with what you said. My hands were so twisted and cramped the first time I tried a simple C chord, but practice makes perfect. The best advice I ever got was to not cheat on my F. (But I'm a stanch rule follower )

I began as a cheater and gradually worked my way up to a barre F. At first, all I could manage was an F#7. Then I began to try to do an F where you use  your index finger to fret the B and high E. After at least a year, I finally began to try to do a fully barred F. For me, the F seems to be easier to do than a Bm--my nemesis!

Breakin the law, breakin the law

Love the Priest quote. lol