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tristan98
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tristan98
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12/10/2018 4:36 pm

Hello,

I know everyone has different difficulties when starting out guitar, but for me one of the biggest difficulty is for my ring finger not to slide down the neck while playing certain chords.

For example while playing the boys of summer (made easy), in the intro when I play the special Em (where the ring and pinky are on the 3rd fret and the others second fret), my ring finger will always tend to go to where my index currently is (is that example on the second fret), causing my note to buzz.

I've had a lot of issues since strating guitar and overcome most of them, but this one doesn't seem to get better the more I practise and when I need to hold my ring and pinky on the same note for a while (by playing wonderwall or the boys of summer for example), it will always start sounding off after a few bars because of my ring finger being half way to the second fret.

I was wondering if there is a way to work that out so that I can solve this faster.

Thank you very much