It is possible to play the guitar with stout stubby fingers. This video will hopefully encourage a few of you out there who have been dejected due to your larger hands.
In this guitar lesson you will place your power chords into practice and get them sliding up and down the neck. It can be a small tough to do this quick when you start out, just take it slow and get the passage right without your hand collapsing! I reckon the original is played with full barre chords, but this songs works perfect for power chord practice as shown in this vid.Taught by Justin Sandercoe. Full support at the justinguitar web site where you will find hundreds of lessons on a wide range of subjects, and all the scales and chords that you will ever need! There is a fantastic forum too to get help, no matter what the problem. And it is all really free, no bull. No try out lessons, no memberships, no free ebook. Just tons of fantastic lessons 
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Thanks for your encouragement; I was in the giving-up mode! And thanks for your faithful witness to Him whom all excellent things come from!
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(25) The Lord shew his face to thee, and have mercy on thee.
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I googled “guitar and stout fingers” lol cheers mate
You have to choose an instrument that you know you are gonna be excellent at and you feel confortable with.
If you just play alone in your bedroom its fine but when if you go out there looking for a band you have to be excellent. For me its better to pick the right instrument rather than tiresome to be excellent at something you know you are not. Thing is that guitar is the intrument most of people wanna try but there are thousands more instruments.
@loombaron hey man i know ur be honest and stuff but that was really annoying coz i just got a guitar and now i lost my motivation, thank a bunch!
hey u forgot the KILLER of all hope , the A MAJOR!!!! plz plz help me!!!
Thank You!
get a wider necked guitar.
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would putting tape around your fingertips work?
@loombaron Please don’t say that.
@MajorMelly So was I!! God bless him!!! It’s the stubby, podgy fingertips – - – lol – - – we are not alone with our special fingers.
and by the way this dude hasnt got stout fingers. They are a bit fatty but small.
what matters is the tip of your fingers. If you have stout fingers but at the end they are thin or normal size then you will have no problem. The problem comes when the fiddle with tips are too stout. In that case you will have distress muting strings when playing open some chords for model. With practice you can play but maybe you are not going to be the best choice for the guitar. If you have stout fingers you should try the bass. In fact most well-known guitarist have normal or thin fingers.
Oh thank his. I’m a woman and thanks to genetics I have wider set hands than him. Am so using that ‘pressing on 2 at once’ thing.
you have small fingers
@paddyboyobrien
date him first
i found that if i tape my fiddle with tight , i lessen my chances of muting the chord next to it
you didn’t hhelp much
Thanks for the video really needed it, was practicing and could not map out anyway to not mute the chord, and was really doubting being able to play.
The problem with this video is that the player doesn’t have FAT fingers – he simply has WIDE fingers. Those are not a problem for any person.
The DEPTH and not the WIDTH of fingers is the most critical. People who have lots of soft tissue at the ends of their fingertips will project greater surace area onto the strings when playing chords and this causes muting.
Another problem is having a thumb that is too proximally localted (i.e. too close to base of hand).
Is that jame frank?
brilliant lesson as always, with the pressure thing keeping fingers in same shape, relax -press cool…have u ever played in bands I would have heard of in sessions??
he’s not australian,he’s english
@plimptonrocksmysocks Maybe thats because hes australian…
AWESOME!!
hey fantastic lesson! could you please upload a video showing how toplay the solo?
@plimptonrocksmysocks Um.. he’s Australian. So of course you wouldn’t hear an English accent when he sings.
hi justin excellent lesson as always and you sing nice merci beaucoup.
@parkerman6 Mmmm… he force know Taz, fascinating!
he clarifies every small bit which concerns me
brilliant teaching skills
@ plimptonrocksmysocks IS RIGHT!!!!!!!
@guitarstuffplace that’s marty schwartz
@55Obes He says it is in another key… So no, but the intervals linking the chords will doubtless match for the largest part xD Not that hard.
thanks yery much
i learn guitar now and this is my favourite guitar song
now i can it play by my self
can i take this cords too for the van halen song?
thanks yery much
i learn guitar now and this is my favourite guitar song
now i can it play by my self
@plimptonrocksmysocks he’s australian buddy, but it works the same for us english. because we rock
@plimptonrocksmysocks That’s because he’s not English, he’s Aussie. Or were you joking?
@TheJoshuaZone with your index fiddle with, you lay it GENTLY on the three bottom strings, so you index is just pressing on the 6th string, but it should be in the position of a bar
tanks man!
you look a bit like kink dave
your excellent at singing dude. nice job.
he’s tasmanian, mate!
Grow a full beard.. I would like to see that (-:
A fantastic lesson and a nice sound you’ve got. Beginners who have problems keeping the fiddle with shape should check out the Power Chord Trainer, which is a small gadget designed to overcome this problem and help with culture power chord technique.