Fat Fingers Fix 2: Don't Get Duped

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Many notes in guitar chords are duplicated
If you are muting certain strings check to see if you really need those notes
A muted string plays no note at all, so it can’t be wrong
If your fingers mute strings beside them, you may not even need that note. Basic open chords, called triads, only have 3 notes so any triad that has more than 3 strings ringing has duplicated notes.
Take A Major: most beginners can’t get the first string, the skinny E string, to ring. The thing is, you already have an E on the D string. If that E is ringing as well as the open A and the C# (2nd fret, 2nd string) you have the required notes. A muted string does not play a wrong note. It plays no note at all, so you’re good.
Lots of chords have duplicate notes and which ones ring in each version of the same chord is called a “voicing”, so it’s not cheating. It’s a thing. I use this muting technique all the time.
Go for it!

[@jamesrogers5277]

The easiest and most useful way of playing the A major chord is: the first finger does that mini collapse-last-joint bar on 4th and 3rd strings, while the second finger stops the 2nd string in the usual way. The 1st string is easily avoided. This way of fingering A makes most chord changes from and to it simple - for one thing it only employs two fingers!

[@AuthenticMusicianTrainingBWade]

@jamesrogers5277 that's excellent! I agree, that's a good fat finger fix, too, using the wide finger to get more than one string. Thanks for joining in!

[@barryfriedman3263]

So good... Every time I see you I learn something I needed to know.

[@AuthenticMusicianTrainingBWade]

Great, Barry! I'm glad I can be of service!

[@lllllIlIIII]

Im working on my finger dexterity im almost a comple beginner im working on my f chords

[@AuthenticMusicianTrainingBWade]

@lllllIlIIII Awesome! Just remember, F stands for FRUSTRATION! 😃 That's to say, "If you're having trouble, it's not you, it's the Frustration chord!"

[@suhridghosh_6820]

Do u have something for pointy fingers... like my fingers are very pointy and narrow but my first contact is nails and I did cut them till I touch skin😢

[@AuthenticMusicianTrainingBWade]

@suhridghosh_6820 have you tried filing your nails instead of cutting them? With a file you can shape them so that they are squared off. That allows you to get close and it supports the skin/callous on your fingertip so it's easier to fret the strings. BTW, most of us would LOOOOOVE to have pointy fingers!