ok, let me just ask this, and i should be out of the forums hair for awhile
ok so im trying to play thigns like Eb, and Bb, and chords like that, 5th string major barre chords.
but i have a seriously probably with the traditional fingering, its mostly going from things like F7, to something like Eb. for starters, its very difficult for me to make Eb sound right the traditional way, to make matters worse it also takes me a lifetime to finger it at all.
So heres my issue, and ive already done a fair amount of research so what im looking for here is reassuranse.
i CAN play it with my first finger barring the root and 1st string, and my third finger barring the notes on strings 2 3 and 4. i CANNOT play it the other way very well
my question is really, is it ok for me to use the alternate fingering(which btw is included in the learning guitar book), or shoudl i just suffer through months of playing it the traditional way, and hope it improves?
i would just play it the way that works but in one of my first questions about learning guitar someone posted a picture and it said "DONT PLAY LIKE THIS", because its bad for your fingers
and it showed a guy doing what im talking about, sort of "laying" down a finger so that its bent backwards
these were the pictures
i just cant imagine the guy with the sausage links for fingers in this 2nd picture fitting fingers 2 3 and 4, on strings 2 3 and 4, down at the 8th fret, and barring the 6th fret with his first..
This post was edited by blunderwonder2 on Jun 8 2011 07:35pm