Or-Yam Bisset

I’ve ran into a road block in my training. I need to play a chord that involves my pinky finger. Unfortunately, I haven’t used my pinky at all and have zero calluses. I tried using it but it hurts pretty bad. Any tips? I’m gonna do 10-20sec holds with my pinky on each string but man it hurts a lot.

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Well I’ve found the fastest way to improve any specific aspect of your playing is to practice that specific thing until it’s no longer a struggle. In your case this would mean just playing that chord over and over until it becomes easy. One way to do this is to do intervals of “death grips” with the chord: 1. Start by placing your fingers on the correct frets for the chord shape 2. Press your fingers into the strings as hard as you can for 15sec 3. Rest & repeat Let me know how it goes! If you want to just build overall finger dexterity I’ve found the spider exercise is great: https://youtube.com/shorts/klyxQ1EA4RA?si=KWf-Dq9mdwUA-K1g

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Hello everyone! My name is Ching. I'm 28 years old and am from Saturn St. PH. My primary goal on the guitar is to learn to play. Saw this on youtube Thanks!💫

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Welcome to the community, Ching!

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@Norman Hooper haha good catch. Technically it’s Or-Yam, but I’ve found that most people get confused with that syntax so more recently I’ve opted for simply “Oryam”. You can address me as either 🙃

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@Norman Hooper sounds good 🙏

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Greetings, Norman is my name and 60 years young. I live in Australia. My goals are to learn fingerstyle, and be able to play at a standard that is okay for myself...enjoy the music and have some fun. I play an Eastman E1D classic. Kindness to you all. https://photos.app.goo.gl/gyqBPNLjbmxY561n6

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@Norman Hooper 🙏 how’d you like him?

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@Norman Hooper of course! Glad you liked him, too :)