Are You Struggling With Fat Fingers? You'll Love These Guitar Tips 

Thank you sir. I was just about ready to give up on the G cord.....

skinny as a twig, fingers literally bones, and I still fat finger every. single. note.

At a certain point you should try to start playing without looking at the fretboard, or looking at it as little as possible, because removing the distraction of the visual element and relying on sense of feel alone can assist in making microadjustments of your fingers because your sense of touch will become more refined. You can visualize the fretboard in your mind without actually looking at it while you're playing. Takes some adapting to, but worth it. This can also help you HEAR the subtleties of what you're playing better by removing that visual distraction as well.. "feeling" the rhythm more and so on and so forth. Can be quite freeing.

Timestamps: 1:40 Guitar Neck Width 2:34 Finger positioning 4:40 Different ways to form a chord 8:51 Practice, Patience, Persistence

Maybe they should make guitar necks a bit wider.

Tomas, some of these lessons came to out of utter “I can’t do this” frustration, but you affirmed and confirmed so much. Thank you!

Thank you. You are a great confidence builder. I will keep practising

i have been struggling with some of these chords to the point of dispair.. THANK YOU for sharing these

Thankyou so much sir, you clear my all doubts.

Guess i'll just play bass😔

Man this helped so so much I have long chubby fingers and some chords seem so impossible and all the videos out there make is seem like you HAVE to use the finger placement they are showing you....using one finger for two strings was a big help!

Thank you that help me a lot nd gave me the confidence to try different ways to make the chords that have given me trouble. Really appreciate the help

Thank you! This made me a lot less discouraged and gave me a clear path towards being able to play barre chords further up the neck.

This video was a breath of fresh air. I have huge, fat fingers. No body has ever been able to help me. I tried most of your suggestions and they worked. I've always felt like there was no chance of me learning to play the guitar but I feel like there is some hope for me now. Thank you!

Thanks for the ending message. I was losing patience with myself and figured it was my fat fingers because mine I truly chunky, but the way you made the video really calmed me down and brought some hope back to learning. Thanks again

I learned some of these very same techniques from George Hinchcliffe of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain while learning to play ukulele. Thanks for showing me their application on guitar.

thank you for your valuable advice

Great video. I found you after 3 years of playing guitar!! More videos on guitar please, cus your presentation is one of the best lve seen on youtube. I watch youtube alot.

Thank you for the information this helped me a lot as I got big hands and fingers and no matter of the neck width I was always muting one of the strings

Thank you Tomas. All very good ideas.

Thank you, those are very good tips. I will practice.

Thank you, I struggle a little with this especially D7. I'm going to try your various techniques. I'm 2 week into learning as a beginner and just practice cords each day.

I'm 140lbs with a ring size 11.5, I gave up on guitar for a long time but today is different and this has been supremely helpful. Thank you.

Thank you Tomas! This was really helpful!!

Hi Tomas. I'm seventy year old and just pick up the guitar for the first time. My fingers are on the short chubby side and was having a tough time making an A chord. Using the pinky finger is a real breakthrough for me. Thank you so much. I'm experimenting using the little guy on some of the other chords and they sound so much cleaner. Thanks again from Carl.

This really helped me as I'm a beginner. Thank you

This guy is a fantastic teacher. Seems very patient, encouraging and inspiring. I wish I was his student--I'd be playing a lot quicker than with any other teacher.

Very useful, many thanks for these tips

Thank you very much!!!!! You are a great teacher!!!

Really having a problem with muting the thinner strings. Love your tip of practice, patients and persistence, that's gold!

Thank you sir.. I shall keep trying.. your suggestions feel practical and genuine..

Great tips. Thank you

Thank you for this video I don’t know anything about playing a guitar but I would like to learn at least the basics just for fun

Thanks for the encouragement...been pretty frustrated lately trying to learn even basics. Good job with the lighting, BTW. Background halo effect really emphasizes you in the center of the frame.

Thank you! I will try some of your tips 😊

Thanks a lot for this! I'm now starting guitar after having a good amount of practice in piano, and these tips seem like they're so easy to find yet I thought the answer to my fingers was so complex.

Thanks, very useful. Beginner videos often don't go into this much detail how to play specific chords, thank you.

thanks Tomas, the fat finger hitting pressing two strings worked for me especially that i'm using an electric guitar which requires less pressure

Brilliant, thank you 😊

Nice to know there are alternative ways to play a D chord, as that was in my 1st lesson and the high E string was muting out and believe me I have tried it at least 50 times. I think it's due to the fact that my ring finger got broken many moons ago and the last part of my knuckle is set solid with quite a fat pad. Many thanks for tips and I may now think of getting a 12 string but string out spaces to a 6 string. Cheers Tomas.

Thank you. The A chord was the toughest for me, but you’ve given me some good options.

Watch three times to be able to follow the subtitles because my English is still very limited, but it was still a very well invested time. You really helped me. Thank you very much!

I struggled for about a month and tried really hard to learn the proper finger form . Ended up trying a seagull s6 and I instantly felt like I could play. I don’t recommend getting it off the bat so that u don’t get lazy with the form but it totally helped and now I feel good about learning acoustic !! (Seagull s6 has a slightly wider neck but is still a steel string acoustic)

Love this video!!!

Thank you for this video. Just started learning guitar at the ripe old age of 47 and I was getting a bit frustrated with thudding sound when playing chords. This video was insightful and I appreciate your enthusiasm when it comes to learning. Gonna give it a go and like you said. Practice. 👍

i've struggled with but loved every minute learning guitar. i have a damaged middle finger tip which has always made fretting certain shapes awkward and painful and invariably touching other strings. Your point and demonstration of angling the fingers has been a revelation. Thank you so much, Tomas

Very useful information. Thanks you Tomas

Thank you mate

Great video thank you for the tips!

great guitar. i have the same one and love it

Hi Tomas. I’m 47. I bought a guitar 30 years ago and couldn’t play and fingers not fitting really was the main reason I gave up. I tried several times but recently my kids wanted to play and I found my old Epi Les Paul special II. I bought it new abs time and being in a garage meant it needed some TLC. I dedicated days to getting it back to original. Ha ha. Yeah, I hear you, a cheap guitar isn’t worth the effort. A neighbour is a legit big rocker in Australia and was huge 30 years ago too and so I being a music nut worker who he was out. He said he’d do all the technical stuff and restring, check the wires and pups etc. the Bridge pick up is a bit lower sounding but she’s up and running. Now-I gave up because of my fingers just being to fat. I always used to do the A chord trick but did all three strings with one finger which used to sound excellent. Certainly better than with my three fingers mess. I wanted to thank you for normalising and forgiving these things because I felt this would impede my progress and skills later on if I took short cuts like this but I think it’s generally accepted to do what works. If it creates bad habits that will be hard to break later on, the. That is the issue that worries me. Anyways. I’m at my Third attempt at learning the guitar and your video has given me a real sense of confidence in myself as I was doing some of these things but felt like I was cheating or whatever. Om just going to try the different fingers too because my ring finger feels like it knows where to go more than my biggest middle finger that feels unco most of the time. I try to keep them in their designated frets but it’s taking so long and still feels weak and as if it doesn’t belong. Anyways, I’m glad you did this video. If you know some other electric guitars with helpful necks to look at, that would be nice to hear about in a video. Also, what percentage of players do stuff like this to just get around the guitar when with bigger fingers. I suspect it is higher than I think. Mike Syd Aus.

Using my last three fingers really helped on a E major chord! Thank you!

Thank you so much for this video! I was getting really frustrated with my fingers muting the strings now that I'm trying to learn chords. Definitely gonna try out these techniques.

Thanks for the tips, and inspiration.

thank you so much for this info!!

i was getting quite frustrated with my thicker fingers and your video really helped. Its not the same as having lessons in person but watching your video really put a light on how i can improve . .now back to practising i go :)

i picked up a guitar the other day and was watching videos about chords and it was hard to do cuz my fingers are thick after watching this video i realized its not about following the rules but its about doing what works for you!

Super helpful thank you. If tour new you dont realise you can play chords differently than what your seeing ppl teach. As long as your playing the note, who cares how you get there! Awesome thanks.

Thanks …. You helped me a lot

Thank you so much for this Tomas!

Yeah, that was a piece of a lesson thank you

Awesome tips, thank you.

Great tip on using your 3, 4, 5 fingers for an “A” chord. Rings clear now. Thanks!

Thank you, I'm an older fellow that should have started out a long time ago. I have large fingers am have been frustrated starting out.

I'm almost 70 and just started to learn the ukulele. This video was invaluable for me. Thank you so much for the tips and encouragement

Wow, I had no idea nylon string guitars were actually wider on the necks! Good to know there are a bunch of different sizes

Thankyou for this video with great advice ,I'm a bass player so like a wider string spacing and Came across these wide neck guitars. Aria MM 10 Gypsy Jazz has a Nut width of 50mm / 2" (It's the one with the "D" Shape sound hole I don't know if it's still in production) also I bought an Harley Benton CUSTOM LINE CLO1048 SCE NS Nut width is 48 mm, has a cutaway and a Fishman piezo transducer electrics with built in tuner came set up really nice guitar for the money.

Great stuff. Thank you.

Thank you so much sir. You have really motivated me. ❤

This is without doubt THE best guitar video I have come across so far. Helped me no end. Many thanks!

Glad I watched this I have mechanic hands. My fingers are short and fat and was fighting against using 2 fingers for the E chords.

I strugleg a few years to play certain chords because of my fingers. I mean on acoustic guitars. Most of the acoustic guitar manufacturs offer 42 to 44 mm guitar necks. But I bought a 46 mm nut widht Baton Rouge x54 OM CHB acoustic, and most of my problem were solved. Now I can enjoy guitar playing using chords like B7 or F major which I could not played properly for many years. Baton Rouge offers a lot of 46mm nut widht acoustic guitars, Richwood also has some 46mm parlors, Harley Benton, Framus and Cort offer some 45 or 48mm parlor, Folk, OM or GA models. Good luck to find one whichi fits your big hands. So of you have big hands or fat fingers forget the 42-43 mm nut widht acoustics and search for some 46mm and you will see the difference.

Great, useful info & presentation! Thanks.

Excellent demonstration. It's so easy to make excuses for not being able to do something. After 5 minutes following your tips, I'm not quite able to do a two for one chord but simply positioning the fingers vertically, I'm hitting the E and A chords well.

Great video, thank you.

I played when I was a young man. I am reteaching myself. It is frustrating muting strings with every note and cord I play because my fingers a so fat now. I don't want to be limited to only being able to play certain guitars. Thanks for the tips. I am getting better at it as time goes by.

Thanks for the lesson .. very useful .. big fan of yours 😊👍

this video helped me a lot, thanks :D

Hi started learning because something I've always wanted to do, was thinking of giving up because of fat fingers, also thinking I'm to old and I'd started to late but thank you I'll think I'll keep at it 😊

Like the way that you explain things. Thank you Tomas

This is a great video! Thank you for sharing...

Great tips!!! Thank you!!!

Hey brother I'm lefty 6 12 string Guitarist with yeps you got it short fat fingers Actually I play the A chord with pinky ring and middle fingers when playing Fender necks on Gibson necks there's more room I just play E chord without index finger I don't play C chord tad difficult to place down I just take the chord loss D chord manageable G chord to My guitar teacher taught there's the base basic guidelines to play guitar and most of what we will do is so many adjustments and modifications that's not in the rules book hence how you're demonstrating using different fingers for certain chords to place the chords down which I think you showing that means you're a great teacher you formulate your words very well and I think teachers like you are a great benefit for the beginner Guitarist to build on

As someone moving from bass to acoustic guitar, this was very helpful, thank you

Great advice! My index finger is the problem on the treble strings.

That's really wonderful…Thank you!

Good practical information!

thx for the angle tip. Really helped me out

I really needed this because I have been struggling with chords and scales

Just like when I was 8 and learned the drums… keep pushing those “circuits” and all of a sudden you have it… “practice makes perfect” Thanks for posting

informative and very positive clip :) thank you

WOW!!! I was trying to switch chords, and that A major was driving me nuts one again. I wish that I had thought about looking at the internet when I first started, because now I will have to relearn some transitions. By the way, I am 72 years old, been playing for a year. And, coming from the violin world, I had the snobbish expectation that the guitar would be easy, as you don't have to place your fingers to find the note! I've had more than my share of humble pie over the last year. Thanks for this, and I will definitely check out your channel.

Thank you so much

Thank you!!Time to go back to work on my beautiful journey of mastering play guitar!PS I need all the help I can get and at this stage it is obvious!

Good informative video. I like the positivity. Thanks

Pheww, my whole life, I was fine with my fingers. I am a metal drummer, but through the DAW and amp sim stuff I grabbed some Donner guitars. And I found out, that my fingers are not only fat but also short. Haha. The 12string guitars tip is awesome if I wanted to go that deep into the guitar world. But I think, firstly I will do some power cords and chords with the one finger two strings technique. I think I won't play fancy solos on the guitar.... let's see. Thank you!

Thank you 🙏 for your advises Maestro, 👍

I was so frustrated because of always hitting a dead note. This gave me options and new solutions to try. Thank you!

Finally, someone who understand my pain. Thanks for this video.

Awesome video!