G Chord

[petelanger]

@gregeaganymail-com I don’t know you but I’m quite sure your hand is big enough to form a G chord. If you are older than 9 and don’t have some kind of growth deficiency I can almost guarantee it.

I have linked to an article that is useful, rather than to just go on about it. My hands aren’t small so I can’t speak from experience, just second hand knowledge. But there is always a way.

https://guitaradvise.com/playing-guitar-with-small-hands/

[Moose408]

As Pete said your hands are not to small. One issue may be the way your hand is positioned on the neck.

• Try adjusting where your thumb is on the back of the neck, lowering it allows your fingers to spread out more.
• Make sure the thumb is behind your other fingers and not way off to the right.
• Try raising the neck as that also helps with reach.
• Another common issue with beginners is tipping the fret board towards you so you can see what you are doing, if it is severely tilted it can cause issue reaching certain strings.

Feel free to post a short video of your attempt to play a G chord and we can offer more concrete suggestions.

<div>Every one of us struggled with the G chord (and the C chord, and pretty much every chord) when we were just starting out. It just takes time you will get it, and it will eventually become second nature.</div>

• This reply was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by  Moose408.

[Bill_Brown]

Hi @gregeaganymail-com and welcome to TAC. I want to say that the 2 gentleman who’ve responded above have valid and helpful information and shouldn’t be ignored. But I’m going to come at this from a completely different direction, and that is chord shapes. They’re several different chord shapes that can be used at different locations along the fretboard for a G chord. Just like what we did on Monday’s and Tuesday’s lessons for “Hotel California” week, we played different chord shapes (triads) at different locations along the fretboard.

Our standard open G chord (in this format) will be depicted like this: 320003, where the numbers are fret numbers to be fretted (0 indicates an open string and an X will indicate a string not played), going from left to right, loE string at the left and hiE string at the right. So let’s look at some other forms of a G chord. I’ll start with using the mini F bar shape fretted between the 3rd and 5th frets, or XX5433. By using this shape at this location along the fretboard, you’re playing a G chord. I understand that a lot of beginners have trouble with this shape, but it can be simplified even further. We can play XXX433 or XX543X, both of which are G chord triads. Also we can use XXX003, or XX000X, or XXX787, or XX978X – yes, all of these are G chord shapes that can be used in place of the standard open G chord and don’t require stretching your fingers across all 6 strings.

[gregeaganymail-com]

Thank you, I will! seriously give it a try😀