Is excesssive precision in tuners going to be the next big problem?

[Rich]

1 hour ago, Dan Dare said:

I have a pal who picks with all four left hand fingers (he's a lefty). Uses the first to play the E, second on the A and so on. He gets around the instrument swiftly when he needs to. I've tried it (right handed, ofc) and find it utterly impossible. 

I saw Matt Garrison using all four fingers when he was playing with Gary Husband. Quite astonishing to watch. No slouch!

[Stub Mandrel]

As a guitar finger-picker, I just tried picking four-finger chords and it's easy enough. Trying to play 'September' across all four stings strict one finger pwer string (well thumb and 3) needed a lot of concentration and wasn't fluent! Riffs with three fingers are easy enough and can get pretty fast.

[Rich]

Unfortunately both my pinky fingers are too arthritically knackered to be of any use at all  

[Stub Mandrel]

18 hours ago, Rich said:

Unfortunately both my pinky fingers are too arthritically knackered to be of any use at all  

 

The bass does more for my thumbs than any amount of anti-inflammatories.

[StickyDBRmf]

A tuner gets me close, where I used to have to tune "in the room", and I played fretless, so it was a harmonics thing. Now  it's that f*cking Stick and I have to to tune to IT, then hope the guitarist is decent with an ear, because it's the ear that matters.