I HATE MY DAMN PINKY!!

cgalves · Post by **cgalves** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:03 am

Ok so its late at night .. trying to keep the guitar playing low .. and I start doing these speed excercises, 1-2-3-4 on all strings, then up one fret, etc etc... and then I come to the realization that my pinky is out of control!! I do 1, then 2, then 3, and by that time my pinky has raised itself a good 2 to 3 inches from the fretboard, as if it was anticipating that I would put it down on the 4th note ... its kind of hard to explain, but really annoying at the same time. Does this simply mean that my fingers arent completely independent of one another or have I inadvertently trained my pinky to self raise itself like that while I'm playing those excercises??? ANY HELP ??? AHHHH

Does this happen to anyone else?? Please tell me ...

cgalves · Post by **cgalves** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:47 am

this is easily the most frustrating thing in the fucking world ! AHHH am i retarded or something?!

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:56 am

get some proeting in you

cgalves · Post by **cgalves** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:58 am

proeting?? what the hell is proeting???

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:00 am

proetein, my bad. Helps you control your muscles

mbgreen · Post by **mbgreen** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:01 am

Beauford33 wrote:get some proeting in you

You need to add "DMBtabs.com: Official Worst Speller" to you sig.

cgalves · Post by **cgalves** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:02 am

ahhh, gotcha ...

i've been analyzin this problem, and i think its because the pinky is inherently dependent on the ring finger, so thats why mine swings up like that .... damnit... its gonna be a bitch to train myself to brreak this damn habit

cgalves · Post by **cgalves** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:03 am

Beauford33 wrote:get some proeting in you

haha, yea, and silly me, i actually did a search for what the definition of proeting was ... i was like, what the hell is that, some weird term ive never heafd before

wheres the spellchecker when you need it

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:06 am

If you dont know that I cant spell for shit by know, well, your way lost

bakemm · Post by **bakemm** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:32 am

Beauford33 wrote:If you dont know that I cant spell for shit by know, well, your way lost

Well, you spelled "for shit" just fine... but "know" and "your," on the other hand, need some work.

Just messin'

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:40 am

I dont doubt it at all. I know I cant spell for shht

grock · Post by **grock** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:47 am

i thought that the pinky and ring finger are dependent to a small degree, and this has nothing to do with habit. you can train them to be less dependent but it was my understanding that the muscles that control some movements are connected to both fingers and will move both. no way around that.

NoNotThat · Post by **NoNotThat** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:16 am

i understand bnortedws has a lot of proeting.

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:18 pm

your best bet would be to practice one of the least used techniques that guitarists nearly all but ignore:

the ring anchor and pinky hammer on. try doing a hammer on with your ring finger as the anchor.

i also found that forcing myself to use the pinky where i normally would use the ring finger helps tremendously

cgalves · Post by **cgalves** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:13 pm

SWEET! finally a valid response that doesnt conssit of mispelled jargon

thanks man i will do those exercises and it will hopefully will help

fatjack wrote:your best bet would be to practice one of the least used techniques that guitarists nearly all but ignore:

the ring anchor and pinky hammer on. try doing a hammer on with your ring finger as the anchor.

i also found that forcing myself to use the pinky where i normally would use the ring finger helps tremendously