From what I’m seeing you use the ring finger for the 13th fret on the low E string. So 13-12-10 are fingers 3-2-1 respectively, where normally I would use the pinky on fret 13, and then ring and index for 12 and 10.
I’m curious because out of all the things in the Antigravity seminar this is the only one I am having trouble getting clean and I’m not sure if scale length has something to do with it.
The Les Paul is 24.75" Scale, the Mustang is 24". There must be only a few millimeters difference between the two at the 10th position.
Fingering is always a personal preference thing. Yngwie prefers the 3rd finger for most things, but of course uses the 4th when convenient or necessary. Paul Gilbert often uses 1-3-4 in places where most players would use 1-2-3 or 1-2-4, and he’s got big hands + long fingers.
Personally, I’ll use 1-2-3 on a whole+half step pattern on the low E, all the way down to the 1st position - on a Strat. My hands are not huge at all, but I find it pretty comfortable.
I’m not sure if you didn’t mean to revive this, and I apologize for not seeing this when you originally posted it.
Normally I don’t really think about fingering much at all. But in this case I might be doing that because of the whole step spread on the A string. It’s not about the E string, per se, but sometimes going between those two shapes it’s easier if I have the fingers lined up on the right frets already. So using ring on the 13th on the low E already places the pinky on the 14th for the A string.
That’s if I have to go back and forth between those shapes. If I had 10-12-13 on a bunch of strings I might use pinky. I do find pinky generally comfortable, but I’m not super consistent in these choices.
I didn’t mean to revive this, deleted the last post because I realized I posted the wrong fingering for the sequence that I now use. Didn’t want someone searching the same thing and getting a bogus recommendation. Thank you though.
No worries, not a problem!