Why does my pinky hate me???

[Krigloch the Furious]

My pinky sucks ass. its just weak and slow. how can I get this little piggy up to par?

 

[SpiritCrusherBTR]

Haha, I know what you mean, man. It's annoying as hell, but you just need to keep practicing and using it. I am myself guilty of being lazy so I play a lot of riffs that would be easier if I had a strong pinky, by just figuring out a way to play them without using my pinky, but when I do use it a lot it does build up strength. Just keep using it and it'll get stronger. Fight, little pinky...fight!

 

[-Gavin-]

i rarely use my pinkey past the 12th fret cause i have big hands and its hard to fit it in,i only use it for big stretches...


HOWEVER!

BElow the 12th fret, it is invaluable... Just do chromatic exercises.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

its hard to fit it in

dont worry needled. I'll fit it in alright!!

 

[Creeping Death]

I forced myself to use my pinky at an early age. Now, if I didn't have it, I would die.

 

[-Gavin-]

dont worry needled. I'll fit it in alright!!

Thats just pain immature

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

bend over and touch your toes, I'll show you where the wild goose goes!!!

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

yeah, no matter how shitty it is. I'v got to get this pinky to be the strongest pinky ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[-Gavin-]

Well pull it out your ass and play guitar with it!

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I just got my fretboard clean I cant dirty it up again. And that will especially suck when I decide to play with my teeth. I'll have to pull corn bits out of my teeth!!!

 

[Sex Machine]

best thing to do is definately chromatic exercises

try to do em in 1 position and stretch your pinky to get the notes you need to hit, like

----------1-2-3-4-5
1-2-3-4-5----------

etc.

 

[Aida_Melodica]

I need to work on exercises too. What's chromatic mean? Yeah, I'm stupid when it comes to guitar terms.

 

[serenesorrow]

Chromatic is the term used for the scale that contains all 12 notes, i.e including sharps and flats.
So chromatic exercises are ones where you play every note like

E--------------------------------------------1-2-3-4
B-----------------------------------1-2-3-4----------
G--------------------------1-2-3-4--------------------
D------------------1-2-3-4----------------------------
A---------1-2-3-4-----------------------------------
E-1-2-3-4-------------------------------------------

You then keep going up and down.. there's plenty of variations out there.
As long as you stick with them you'll have strong fingers in no time.
Hope that helps
If you need any sites or exercises just let me know and I could fish something up.

 

[Aida_Melodica]

thanks, I'll use that one for warm-ups next time I practice on the ol' acoustic.

 

[bobvex]

Chromatic is the term used for the scale that contains all 12 notes, i.e including sharps and flats.
So chromatic exercises are ones where you play every note like

E--------------------------------------------1-2-3-4
B-----------------------------------1-2-3-4----------
G--------------------------1-2-3-4--------------------
D------------------1-2-3-4----------------------------
A---------1-2-3-4-----------------------------------
E-1-2-3-4-------------------------------------------

You then keep going up and down.. there's plenty of variations out there.
As long as you stick with them you'll have strong fingers in no time.
Hope that helps
If you need any sites or exercises just let me know and I could fish something up.

thats not chromatic, you missed the A, D, G, and E notes