Originally Posted by: atfx

Hi to everyone, I am Alex from Montréal, Canada. This is first time in my life I try to learn playing guitar and I already have a huge struggle. My fretting hand , I absolutely have almost no control over the fingers, especially how teacher show in the video lesson, each finger suppose to cover each fret parallel to each other, mine are all tilted in opposite directions and I have particularly hard time to cintrol 3rd finger (during spider legs exercise) Any suggestions how to train your fretting fingers stay more parallel to eachother like a fork :) because everytime I try to spread them to keep 1 finger per fret they curv in to a bowl shape and I can not control them to remain straight. Thank you for help in advance.

Alex

Be sure that you review the ergonomics lessons if you haven't already or review again if needed. While finger placement and comfort is one of the more challenging (or complained about, really) beginner issues. Very few people don't have to deal with that. You are in very good company. Or as faith said; situation normal.

But everyone's arms and fingers and different and what is confortable to one person is not for another. For my wife, who just started playing, it's much easier to have the rounded 'butt' of the guitar between her knees. For me, Ive been playing for a very long time and have pretty much always played with a strap whether sitting or standing because it helps me have my guitar where I want it.

So send some time fidding with where the guitar feels best and then you may find that you don't need to contort your fingers to fret notes.