half barre with 4th finger

[borge]

Yes, it's 1xx555.

Ow, borge...! That's the advantage of having large hands...! Can small hands do that?

What kind of practice did you do to improve 4th finger strength and dexterity?

P.S. I just watched a guitar performance by someone with large hands. He can play 1x56x6 (I don't remember where he put his fingers on 4th & 5th strings, but I'm sure about the rest) easily... :'(

It was a long time ago but here's some things I recall:

mostly variations on this for strength:
e--4-5------------------
b------4-5-------------
g-----------4-5----------

using my 3rd and 4th fingers only, in different positions, using various combinations of hammers, pull offs, trills or picking.

And cycling through chords that I found difficult like these for dexterity:

1 2 3 4 x x
4 3 2 1 x x
2 3 4 5 x x
5 4 3 2 x x
ect ect continuing further up the neck, start higher up if needed. (this is a Joe Satriani warm up routine)

And also changing fingerings on any other things I would play to include my 4th finger.

[chitarrista]

Borge, thank youuu...

[Pathfinder]

Cool idea..I’ll have to incorporate this into my current guitar practice time.

[chitarrista]

After a month of practice, I can do it. Finally! ^_^

But there's still a little problem. If I put 4th finger first then the 1st finger, all notes sound clean. If I play it the other way around (for arpeggio), notes E and A sound bad. :'(

More practice!