hammer40
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With my recent addition of a tenor guitar (23 inch scale,) I have noticed a little bit of confusion with my muscle memory. I noticed that with three scale lengths, 17, 20, and 23, I now "miss" on some chords when fretting up or down the neck. Going between the baritone and tenor uke isn't bad, but the larger difference (6 inches in scale) in the fret spacing on the tenor guitar has me "missing" quite a bit. Not the chord shapes, since they remain the same (I'm in DGBE on the tenor guitar,) but where they are at.
I'm going to assume as long as i keep practicing, my muscle memory will adapt to the scale differences. Anybody else have the same problems bouncing around between instruments or scale lengths? If so, any practice tips to minimize it?
I'm going to assume as long as i keep practicing, my muscle memory will adapt to the scale differences. Anybody else have the same problems bouncing around between instruments or scale lengths? If so, any practice tips to minimize it?