Playing a Minor Chord (big hands?)
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:19 pm
I'm just putting it out there if anyone has thoughts/help on this subject:
I'd been playing a minor chord by playing the bass note with my fourth finger (right hand), and two notes on 2nd (index) finger. Kind of a shorthand/easy method.
King Keyes (a most excellent teacher, rest in peace), briefly showed me to use the 5th finger to play the bass note, and the 2nd & 3rd (index & middle) fingers to play three accompaniment notes for a fuller minor chord. I was stubbornly annoyed at change and balked at trying it. Now in my enlightened adulthood, I terribly regret that move and have been expanding the songs I know by using full minor chords. However:
Two people have told me they play 4-note minor chords using their 4th finger on the bass string, and I'm at a loss to understand how anyone can stretch that far between the 3rd & fourth fingers. Anyone?
I'd been playing a minor chord by playing the bass note with my fourth finger (right hand), and two notes on 2nd (index) finger. Kind of a shorthand/easy method.
King Keyes (a most excellent teacher, rest in peace), briefly showed me to use the 5th finger to play the bass note, and the 2nd & 3rd (index & middle) fingers to play three accompaniment notes for a fuller minor chord. I was stubbornly annoyed at change and balked at trying it. Now in my enlightened adulthood, I terribly regret that move and have been expanding the songs I know by using full minor chords. However:
Two people have told me they play 4-note minor chords using their 4th finger on the bass string, and I'm at a loss to understand how anyone can stretch that far between the 3rd & fourth fingers. Anyone?