Need a lil help lol!

[guitar_babe]

Ok, I can play the guitar really well, but there are some chords, songs, tabs etc that i cant play, cause my fingers want reach the fret, like if you had 2nd finger 2nd fret on D string, 3rd finger 3rd fret on B, and 4th finger 4th fret on high E, i couldnt reach with the fourth finger, how do i accomplish reaching it? basically my pinky is useless right now! lol!

[PonyOne]

I have pretty stubby fingers that are also kinda fat. For the first year I played guitar seriously, it was an uphill battle trying to play fingerings like that, as well as palying without getting tons of fretbuzz.
More than anything else, you probably just have to wait until your hands "break in." If you think about it, after playing guitar for awhile, your hands end up quite different than they were before you started playing a lot: you get huge callouses, you can crush golf balls in your fist, and you can fidget at speeds mere mortals only wish they could achieve.

It may help if you get a guitar that has a thinner neck radius (distance around). I'm not sure what you're playing or how long your fingers are so I can't really make any guesses in that department.
Aside from just keeping on trying to learn those fingerings, you can also try getting one of those squishy stress balls or hand tension things, that helped me out. After awhile, your hand muscles will get used to it and it'll be cool. I played simpler, Deftones-ish fingerings for a long time before I started to do more intricate ones, which it sounds like you're going through. Don't worry, stick with it and keep practicing and it'll fall into place.

oh and BTW, I never use my pinky. Most of the time it's not an issue.

[Led Zeppelin]

Adjust yuor hand postuer and see whats the best for stretching and just practice stretches in general.

[guitar_babe]

thanks for the info, i rarely try to use my pinky, but my dad use to play and he helps me a little, and he is always tellin me about each fret has its own finger. But i hardly ever listen to him n e ways. One more question for who ever, why dont the people on here ever talk or what ever? If you get what i am saying.... thanx again guys
Nikki

[Raskolnikov]

This just tends to be a slow board. It's a small community, no raging flame wars, no name calling...

Well, there's a little of that, but compared to some other boards?

So I guess it's just the nature of the beast.

PS: the "Finger for each fret" thing pertains more to playing solos and/or bass.

[Hootayah]

I always think of the forum as the back page of guitar tricks. Sort of like the classifieds. For every 10 visits to guitar tricks, I probably only glance at the forum once or twice. Even then I only read a couple of messages cause on older computers with dialup every page takes forever to load. If there was an offline reader available I'd probably participate alot more.