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Recommended scale length

Posted by Ronald Hanes on January 30, 2019 at 12:26pm in Performances, How to Play, Lessons, Concerts

I can not make the finger stretch required to do some of the chords on  my 3 string cbg tuned GDg

The scale length I have is 23 3/4" for example the c chord  with it's 5th to 2nd fret stretch is just not possible for me.

What is a reasonable scale length  for  a better fit to my hands?  I'd appreciate your suggestions.

Thanks Ron H

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  • Korrigan January 30, 2019 at 6:05pm

    You should give the "other" open G tuning a try Ronald.  It's D G B and offers a lot of easy chord shapes.

    http://chordgen.rattree.co.uk/?instrument=ukulele&tuning=D,G,B&...

  • BrianQ. January 30, 2019 at 12:44pm

    You might wanna try an alternate chord fingering? One finger across all three strings at 5th fret is a C? Here’s one, just a little shorter, 23”. You may wanna just do some experiments on scale length as you’re the one who knows your limitations? I suggest downloading a fret template calculator? Cheers 

    https://poormansguitar.com/template

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