Originally Posted by: garrettmrW'sup, everyone? Like so many others, I'm "working from home" these days in Houston, Texas. The fact that I'm concurrently trying to learn guitar is just sheer coincidence. Really....
I've been warming up with Lisa's Spider Fingers drill using all 4 fingers. The problem is, with all four fingers mashed on the string, I can't get a good tone from the lower-numbered string. My fingers are so spread out across the 4 frets that I can't get enough of an arch in them to be able to get a clear tone from the neighboring string. Is this even physically possible for most people? Is this something that I need to be able to shoot for?
Thanks,
Garrett
Hello!
That's a good question. Physiologicaly, you can do it. Just make sure you are pushing your wrist way forward, so as to enable you to attack the strings very vertically.
That said, it will be of very little use when playing, so don't sweat it. It will be a very weird instance where you may have all four fingers on the same string, and in that instance, you can lift the first three fingers (if the fourth is fretting), since they are not doing anything, before you attack the lower string.
The spider walk is just a very useful exercise to start building finger independence. And it will get much more complicated with some real finger twisters...