Hey all at GMC,
I am not sure if this thread already exists, but if not I'm going to start it.
My questions are:
1. How tall are you? (feet & inches or metres & centimetres, or convert and post both if you can just for the sake of making it easier for everyone to understand)
2. How big are your hands, from the line on the underside of your wrist to the tip of your middle finger?
Also, any discussion on the pros and cons of big hands and long fingers in regards to guitar technique and what level of stretches etc you can physically do is also welcomed.
If anyone has any information of the hand size of famous guitarists this might also be interesting to look at. Doesn't have to be measurements, maybe you've shaken the hand of a famous guitarist or something.
To get started:
My Height:
72.5 inches/Just over 6ft
184cm/1.84m
My hand Size:
19.5cm/7.7 inches
So there you go. I don't consider my hands to be very big, but I can make some big stretches with what I've got and without pain. For example, all of John Petrucci's "Rock Discipline" stretches and some crazy diminished stretches that Rusty Cooley shows in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRWnUApF52U&mode=user&search=).