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😳 , Sorry, Bass is away at the moment and cannot reply to posts…

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Let sleeping dogs ‘lie’

98.8% of all statistics are made up on the spur of the moment, 98.8 is also the FM frequency of Radio 1, which is most definatly made up on the spur of the moment.

Talking of long ago forgotten posts, in the dusty vaults of Guitarsite, i seem to remember one involving a tennis tournament…. 😆

95% of the tone’s in the fingers, Lee. Nobody ever made a fuss about that statistic.

Ive never heard so much fuss over a finger.

Just bending from the lowest knuckle like you seem to be doing mine does this a fair bit, maybe a third of it is under the ring finger. Like everyone else says I think learn to work round it, but stretches can be good too…

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b378/subphonic/stretch2.jpg

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I have an oddly shaped tip to my little finger on the freting hand, it’s the result of chopping it off on a garden gate when i was 5, some kind soul picked it up and the hospital managed to sew it back on, oddly enough, i only ever get pain in the finger when im playing bass, probably a lot more pressure holding down the string.
But i must say Geo’s setup does look a bit.. Abi Normal. 😯

Geo ought to be congratted for the best thread title I’ve seen all year. Makes me want to write a song. I edited your post to make image-clicking easy for others, BTW.

Sorry to tell you that my pinky bends are not so extreme, but here’s something. My right (fretting) hand has absolutely no trouble; if I snap third and fourth fingers down to my palm, they keep away from each other. However, if I snap them down on my left (plucking) hand, they clash a little bit and the pink is either slightly above or below the third – or at least in the way. Hmmm, this may be a genetic thing, like looping your tongue, but one that can be at least partly practised out.

On another note, the 1st and 2nd fingers of my fretting hand have a pronounced curvature to them from years of playing. They twist and bend into the straighter 3rd finger. Anyone else have this?

and toes too, dont forget them.

The ladies love it.

It’s all about drawing upon your strengths, be it crazy bent pinky fingers or webbed fingers.

We all know you have webbed fingers Mike.

Mine and Stacey’s pinky does not fold under.

The fingers and hand are a weird apparatus and after this long I don’t know if you could train them to move any other way.

We all know 1b has had to deal with the traumatic experience of being left handed devil spawn, it’s something you have to work with, but maybe he can offer some tips.

You should see how I hold my writing pen, it’s a shambles and it would be impossible to change now.

I say work with it.