Originally Posted by: fordgmy girlfriend bought me a guitar for christmas too. This was the most informative site I could find as well. The only thing is my fingers feel too big also. Sometimes feels like I can't get my hand or arm or fingers to flow correctly on the neck, and in some positions I feel like i am bending my arm too much. I am not having problems with the simple chords and little songs, just trying to remember all the diffrent chords, majors and minors. Anyone have any thoughts on how to put them in an order or something to make it easier to learn them as far as finger placement and chord patterns.

when i was learning my major and minor chords i would learn thre new ones that sounded ok together and make a little riff with them. then i would slowly incorporate other chords and drop a old one. if you keep this up u will run out of major and minor chords and start using the sus , add and other less common, but beautiful chords. I also had problems with my fingers feeling fat and positioning, just keep it up those dead strings will go away and become second nature.