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I always try to play a Gmajor7 chord. Sounds more interesting to me.
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I've been playing around 2 years. Trying to play a G chord is tough if you different hand sizes. I've been struggling for a year trying to learn Freight Train from Mark Hanson's book Travis Picking. The tough thing is using the pinky to play the melody when you are fingering both the G chord and the C chord. I still struggle with some the strings being muted as when I use the pinky finger especially for fingering the high E string. The other fingers have a tendency to roll down muting the adjacent strings.
Everyday I try to play this song a few minutes each day that maybe someday I will master it.
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Pinky here
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Hopefully not in the key of C!
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Nice one , it's also easy enough to start a phrase with 4th finger on 3rd fret 1st string then pull of to high E play the D under the 3rd finger and follow through with the hammers and pull ofs on the third.
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Jon's fingering example is like the fingering I use in my tune "Happy" with pull-offs used on strings two, three, and four.
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I usually play it with the ring finger on the high E. I learned that way 45 years ago and I can fly in and out of that position regardless of what chord I’m coming from or headed to next, even an open C chord. I play the Stones “Sweet Black Angel”, which includes a basically instantaneous D-C-G many times throughout the song and I can make that very quick move in and out of the G basically instantly, much faster than using the pinky. I use the pinky version only when the song calls for a quick transition between G and G7, or if it’s got a G4, which is rare, but comes up on occasion. I like both but using the ring finger is where my fastest muscle memory developed…
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For those not aware, Gmaj7 adds an F# note which will NOT sound correct in many settings which call for the G triad.
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I play the open G most of the time with the ring finger, but also quite a bit using pinky on first string third fret with ring finger on second string third fret. This makes for a fuller sounding G chord. I actually refer to it as "full G". The "standard" three finger G chord leaves the pinky available for higher notes or for playing higher notes when quick shifts to another chord form will follow. It's good to simply strum and alternate between playing "standard" G and "full" G. You'll quickly develop the muscle memory and ear to select between the two forms at will and as needed. In many other tasks that we routinely perform the pinky is used less often than other fingers, so it's totally natural for it to feel odd or uncomfortable when incorporating it into guitar playing. Many players go their whole life without using it, but it's a valuable asset if you use styles of playing that use melodic note playing in conjunction with playing chordal accompaniment. In other words, do what's comfortable, and cross the pinky use bridge when you come to it. Last edited by Rudy4; 07-20-2022 at 06:49 AM. |
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I've tried warmups and stretching to no avail. I still need to get a better sound by fixing the fingers rolling issue. The good news is I have better control over the pinky since when I started to play 2 years ok.
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The one place where so far the 4/2/3 stance is difficult is how my Strat is currently setup with a wide-spaced nut that leaves that pinky on g4 more likely to slip off. I'm probably going to make the final version of that nut have a bit more space below and above E, e. Anyway, no shade on how anyone prefers to make a given chord, I make A with 1,2, I could probably make 2,3,4 work however what I got now works fine, so I'm not 'fixing' it ;-). |
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For Travis alternating bass type picking a really useful G chord I find is 7XOOO7 and 7X00010 , combined with G at the 3rd fret it's easy to play melodies on the G chord almost the length of the fretboard.
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When I first taught myself guitar, I learned the open G chord as using my third, fourth and fifth fingers, which left my index finger free to move to the next chord I'd be playing. I still play that to this day.
The downside I've found, is that I find it difficult to play a G using four fingers (pressing the B string on the third fret to make a D). My fourth and fifth fingers tend to get tangled a lot then.
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