Glad it was helpful!

Yes, the thumb can be a bum!! Cheers, Jose!

Some Sigma have 44.5 and also some Parlour guitars also but forget the brand and look for 45mm (1.75 inch) nut widths. Not easy to get hold of but some are out there,Furch spring to mind too.

@@skintslots Agree with your comment, 1.75 inch nut for easier quicker learning too. I usually go back to the Ayers AS as it's halfway between a normal width and a classical width. Suits me.

@@soundssimple1 There's no way many of us have nearly 3k for a guitar. Furch are expensive enough but some are under 1k. My own budget is a lot less though.

thanks for adding this @soundssimple1 and @skintslots. I'm not much of a gear head so I love it when folks with your knowledge bring that element to the discussion. 😀

@robinleebraun7739 is a wider nut width hard to find? AllParts? I'd imagine the bolt pattern is the same, yeah?

@GarySchiltz , absolutely! Great points all around. Thanks!

@mikegaglio yes, a lot of famous guitarists have long fingers. In my 30 years of teaching I've noticed that even players with long fingers still have issues to overcome. Their middle fingers often overextend and curl when the others are straight. I don't think there's a perfect hand position, just different pros & cons. Cheers!

You listed my favorite instruments! I dabble on classical guitar because I am very new to it and clumsy, but I am always playing and practicing on my beautiful Baritone ukes.

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Hi, John! One way to get more room on a fretboard is to use an electric 12 string and only put the standard 6 strings on it. That can give you more real estate. : )

@johnCjr4671 its all down to practice nothing more

@bertieborough yes! I referred to my teacher, Robert Newton, in the video. George Benson was his hero! Robert had the same picking angle and sweep thing going. He played fusion and could go anywhere with the guitar. I don't have any good recordings of him because he just loved to play live. Thanks for your contribution!

@@AuthenticMusicianTrainingBWade I will too that some of us have small hands but fat finger pads. This is often overlooked by lots of reviewers but many people,like myself,find the pads at the tip of our fingers are a bit flatter or fatter. This is the main reason I like wider nut widths given I have smaller hands overall. Guitar necks are made too uniformly as so many of us have different physiological and biological make ups. The big problem with far eastern,not just China but even the quality Japanese models,made guitars seem to have been designed with typical smaller Asian hands in mind. I wish this would change as Yamaha are lovely guitars but the nut widths and string spacing are largely far too narrow.

Yeah, I remember "folk guitars". They often had slotted headstocks and slightly wider nut widths and were made for steel strings. Usually small body models. Kind of a hybrid of steel and nylon styles for fingerstyle. A friend of my dad had a couple and he played ragtime on guitar! I remember seeing a Takamine several years ago. Might find one on Reverb.com. Did you try the exercise at authenticmusiciantraining.com ? That may help with some of the width issues. The tip of the bone in our finger is very narrow so if you come right down onto the string you can be more "narrow". The exercise helps you feel that narrow tip in your finger and use it for more precision. Try it out and I'd love to hear if it helps in any way. It's free so it's not like buying a Furch for $3,000! Here's the link again and good luck!😀 Bryan authenticmusiciantraining.com

@whatknotcovfefe just practice it gets easy and becomes second nature

@whatknotcovfefe Don't use the first 3 fingers with open A, either use fingers 2, 3 & 4 or bar with the first finger. If you bar the open A chord, don't worry about the 1st string ringing (the skinny E string on the bottom). That is an E and you already have an E on the 4th string (D string). Of course, if you WANT to hear that \E string ringing then you need to do the spatula technique. Try that and let me know how it goes. Cheers, Bryan

Also, @whatknotcovfefe, did you try the free exercise here at authenticmusiciantraining.com

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@mikemcneil8268 what is it like? Are there any chords that you can play cleanly? Do you avoid certain chords or harmonies? Do you use 6ths for solos? You're right, I don't know what it's like. Please tell me. : )

Hi, @philipliethen519. Thanks for your reply. How could this video have helped you more? Sincerely, Bryan

@philipliethen519 did you try the exercise at authenticmusiciantraining.com ? It's free