Originally Posted by: hsnoeckxhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDig2EMTYIo look here at Poppa Chubby how thick and short his fingers are and listen him play, don't understand which chord you mean which spreads out over 4 frets though? since you 've joined I guess you follow Lisa's lessons and only 2 months in I don't think that there are such chords to be learned already.
Been playing for 50 years now and met litterally thousends of people of all kinds and all sort of hands and fingers from who you absolutely didn't expect them to play the guitar because they had short and fat fingers but they could play really good so what you tell here looks like the lamest excuse I've ever heard to give up.
With respect, and to be fair to Lee, I'm not sure Poppa Chubby is a great example of somebody with short fingers! Poppa's hands are like a bunch of bananas sure! but his fingers are relatively slender at the end and very long. Just take a look at his little finger in the vid, that thing is about 4 inches long! ;~) A better example might be Angus Young from AC/DC, now that guy does have small hands, though he too has relatively long fingers for his hand size. https://youtu.be/VcGAScb_woY I'm a newbie and going through similar pain, stick with it Lee and take the advice of the other guys on the forum. Best of luck
