For the guitar players out there...

[-Davo]

Originally Posted by thrasher

I'm talking strectching the tip of your pinkie to the tip of your thumb along the fretboard. Seriously, watch a video of Hendriz playing and you won't doubt it anymore. It's not that hard to believe...Rachmaninov could stretch over 2 octaves on a piano with one hand

In your defence I took measurements of my two gutiars (one is a 21 fret fender), and my 24 fret XCort, I'll put pics up as soon as I can and the verdict.

Here are the stats:

Fender:

1-13th fret = 31cm, verdict impossible.
13-??? verdict not determined, insufficient number of frets

XCort:

1-13th fret = 30cm verdict impossible
12-25th fret (25th fret non existant) approx 25cm. Verdict not likely, but probably not impossible.

I do have pics of the ruler next to the fret board.

I'm still calling

[sivic02]

It is by far bs, besides just because you can stretch your hand across the fretboard doesnt make you a good guitarist. Jimi may have had big hands, and he may have been a decent guitarist, he was far from a god send end all savior to guitarists across the globe that all guitarists strive to become

[Skyline_BNR34]

Originally Posted by ghetto7o2azn

why do u keep talking about ur thumb? your supposed to use your thumb when u play the d chord anyways and you only need to mute the e string or just not play it at all

Well really your not supose to play with our left th8mb, anu guitar book you look at will say not to use it...

[ghetto7o2azn]

well then y do you use it?

[-Davo]

I use my thumb for some chords:

In Pinkfloyd's "wish you were here" is a variation of a D chord with the added F sharp on the E string* (trying not to strain my drunk brain with chord names...does that rhyme?) It would be uncomfortable to play with the regular 4 fingers of the D chord (Standard D chord).

* Here is the Variation:

e-2--------------
B-3------------
G-2-----------
D----------------
A-x-------------
E-2------------

Hendrix used his thumb a lot.

I disagree with Skyline, most guitar books won't tell you not to use it, they either encourage it where possible, or not cover it at all.

[ghetto7o2azn]

i use my thumb all the time too... u use it a lot in daughters - john mayer but skyline keeps saying its the hardest guitar style or something like that... wtf .. its pretty standard to use ur thumb imo

[Skyline_BNR34]

The style I was talking about was the Stevie Ray Vaughan style, just the way he played is hard to copy, but if you think it isn't hard to play, I would want to see you copy it exactly like him, struming all the strings while only playing one string and doing it very fast...

The Hendrix style is close to the SRV style and if you hear both of them you can see the SRV's style is very close to the Hendrix style but hendrix's style is much easier than the SRV style... His sytle is far more complicated then hendrix and it is still one the hardest to copy because of how he played, and most famous guitaruist and magazines and stuff have said the sRV guitar style is one of the most complicated styles to learn in guitar HISTORY...

[ghetto7o2azn]

ill show u some amazing acoustic work unless uve already seen it

http://www.spikedhumor.com/Article.aspx?id=821

http://media.putfile.com/Justin-King...vee-Movie-Clip

please id like to see u even attempt to copy either song on acoustic