Originally Posted by: manXcat

Originally Posted by: loreatwAny advice?

Ref "spider exercise" in "3 days". Assuming your join date coincides approximately with your start date learning guitar. How many hours total hands on is that in "3 days' of your attempt to achieve fluidity with the spider exercise in practical application. 15 minutes, 3 hours or ? Patience. Persistence. Time.

What guitar do you have that you're experiencing the neck wrestling with? Les Paul, ES-335, SG electric?

[br]If you are forced to use a strap as a kludge to work around this, posture notwithstanding, most probable is that there's something [u]fundamentally[/u] wrong with the [u]physical fit[/u] of that instrument with you.

I've been practicing for the last 3 days for about 5 hours. I physically can't do the spider with all the fingers kept down, maybe I should do it one finger per time.

I think I found the good posture for me, I press the guitar down with my armpit, I'm very comfortable with that.

I bought an entry guitar on gear4music, stratocaster shape.