# Shredding, small hands, making music
**URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607
**Category:** Harmony & Theory
**Created:** [June 4, 2024, 9:47am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607 "2024-06-04T09:47:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@mysticguitar](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/mysticguitar)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2024, 9:47am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/1 "2024-06-04T09:47:09Z")
Can one shred but still improvise? Can one shred with small hands? Is shredding a way to impress people rather than making music?
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### Author:  [@eric\_divers](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/eric_divers)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/2 "2024-06-04T18:38:14Z")
Yes, absolutely, only if you make it that way.
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### Author:  [@kgk](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/kgk)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/3 "2024-06-05T00:48:22Z")
Yes, yes, no.
(Most people are not impressed with shred, just look at record sales.)
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### Author:  [@induction](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/induction)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/4 "2024-06-05T02:25:06Z")
These are some pretty small hands:
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5YXpfcZy2Sk/maxresdefault.jpg "RACER X "Scarified" Cover / Li-sa-X (Japanese 8 year old girl)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YXpfcZy2Sk)
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### Author:  [@kgk](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/kgk)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/5 "2024-06-05T03:34:30Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DIGfO2Dgc9Y/maxresdefault.jpg ""Vivaldi Tribute" (Patrick Rondat) Tina S cover") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGfO2Dgc9Y)
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### Author:  [@mysticguitar](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/mysticguitar)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/6 "2024-06-07T21:01:43Z")
I want to do it in a Strat.
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### Author:  [@induction](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/induction)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/7 "2024-06-07T21:32:35Z")
Are you concerned about scale length? Both of the guitars shown have similar scale lengths to strats:
- Fender Stratocaster scale length: 25.5"
- Ibanez RG8540ZD scale length: 25.5"
- Vigier Excalibur scale length: 25.6"
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### Author:  [@timrichard](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/timrichard)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/8 "2024-06-08T14:46:06Z")
The hands keep getting smaller 🙂
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKjDKbBKI2Q)
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### Author:  [@mysticguitar](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/mysticguitar)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/9 "2024-06-16T12:35:10Z")
Kis are more flexible than older adults
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### Author:  [@Jacklr](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Jacklr)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/10 "2024-06-16T14:27:57Z")
What will your excuse be this time?
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH0rSqnNpyg)
Django famously only had two working fingers for lead playing but could absolutely rip!
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ308aOOX04&t=42)
You can keep putting up barriers and making excuses or you can put in the hard work and have it pay off! If you REALLY want to achieve this level of playing then you will find a way 😁
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### Author:  [@kgk](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/kgk)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/11 "2024-06-17T06:36:21Z")
> [@Jacklr](#):
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> Django famously only had two working fingers for lead playing but could absolutely rip!
Science agrees with you: [pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24570018/)
This is a good summary of both Django and Tony Iommi’s experience: [Fiery fingerwork: Django Reinhardt, Tony Iommi and the accidents that revolutionized guitar playing | The Muser](https://themuser.blog/2020/11/11/fiery-fingerwork-django-reinhardt-tony-iommi/)
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### Author:  [@Fossegrim](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Fossegrim)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/12 "2024-06-17T17:12:33Z")
The guy with phocomelia in the vid above should say enough. I’m sure you can find someone somewhere doing that with their feet.
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### Author:  [@jptk](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/jptk)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/13 "2024-06-17T18:34:52Z")
I actually did see a guy shredding with his feet a while ago on instagram. I can’t remember who it was though. He had no hands so that’s just how he plays. Impressive stuff.
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### Author:  [@Fossegrim](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Fossegrim)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/shredding-small-hands-making-music/78607/14 "2024-06-17T19:20:19Z")
And there it is. I’m not surprised in the least by that.