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hollo
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12/28/2003 7:09 pm
I'm a beginner, just having started (2 months now).

I have a worry. I have fairly small (dainty?)hands & fingers. This helps in keeping my playing clean. But i seem to have trouble with the more diffcult chord. Barre chords and such are giving me a hard time, i just don't seem able to reach them.

Are there tricks? How can i get my fingers to spread?

Any advice would be welcome..

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12/28/2003 7:57 pm
You're going to have a hard time at first, but as you go along your hands will get more dexterity. My hands used to get sore from all the stretching I had to do with my fingers, and I'd stick them in a sink filled with warm water for about 30 seconds. It loosens the muscles in your hands without wearing away the callouses on your hands.

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12/29/2003 2:31 am
I have smaller hands also, but now I can reach all the chords, and I can reach quite a bit of frets without moving a finger off the neck. Just takes practice.
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12/29/2003 3:14 am
copy and paste this to the address bar, This guys shreds and he has "dainty hands" plus he makes funny faces too!


http://www.metalagesmedia.com/marcel/anthem.wmv
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12/29/2003 3:26 am
Check this guy out. You'll soon see that small hands make no difference. http://www.marcelcoenen.com/movieclips.htm
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12/29/2003 6:59 am
anyone know what does marcel (the guy from the given link above) uses to add harmony on his guitar? it sounds really good. that guy's really good. wow! and i thought I had stumpy fingers!!!
"Lets see… well I play the guitar and when I'm not playing the guitar, I think about playing the guitar. My other favorite instrument, is the guitar and if I aspired to play any other instrument, it would be the guitar...

I can’t sing so I sing through my guitar. So when the sound guy says: “Your guitar is too loud!” I think: "Why does he never say that to the vocalist?"
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12/29/2003 5:13 pm
Thanks all.

I'm going to stick at it.
There is a lot of good stuff on the Marcel Coenen site.
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12/30/2003 3:16 am
sounds to me like he uses some sort of reverb..i like his tone though
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12/30/2003 3:21 am
I know, I like his tone too. But I was thinking in terms of a harmonizer or a pitch shifter of some sort. There was a part in there were his guitar sounded like two.
"Lets see… well I play the guitar and when I'm not playing the guitar, I think about playing the guitar. My other favorite instrument, is the guitar and if I aspired to play any other instrument, it would be the guitar...

I can’t sing so I sing through my guitar. So when the sound guy says: “Your guitar is too loud!” I think: "Why does he never say that to the vocalist?"
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12/30/2003 3:23 am
ohh that part..he was probably using delay
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12/30/2003 4:30 am
yup, that's it! lol why didn't i think about that. Brian May used delays and echoes before there was such a thing as pitch shifters.
"Lets see… well I play the guitar and when I'm not playing the guitar, I think about playing the guitar. My other favorite instrument, is the guitar and if I aspired to play any other instrument, it would be the guitar...

I can’t sing so I sing through my guitar. So when the sound guy says: “Your guitar is too loud!” I think: "Why does he never say that to the vocalist?"
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01/05/2004 3:29 pm
If seen Marcel Coenen Live in Holland, as the support act of Queensryche.
I was realy amazed, and as the only guitarist of the band they had a realy thick sound :) He can shred some cool stuff :D

- edit:
btw that a realy cool version of our anthem :)
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01/06/2004 6:23 am
wow! you've seen that marcel dude? that must be something. i wish he'd come to Canada but my country only accepts crappy boring music mostly from the US like them brintney spears, justin timberlake, and 50 cents rubbish. i was almost convinced that it was the end of the world! where have all the shredders and 8 finger tappers gone? wish they were more recognized by the upstream media. i think its time people begin appreciating the higher arts.
"Lets see… well I play the guitar and when I'm not playing the guitar, I think about playing the guitar. My other favorite instrument, is the guitar and if I aspired to play any other instrument, it would be the guitar...

I can’t sing so I sing through my guitar. So when the sound guy says: “Your guitar is too loud!” I think: "Why does he never say that to the vocalist?"
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