How many fingers should be used by the Lead Guitarist?

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All the fours fingers while playing the leads.
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Hi Kumarpalaksha, Why not all of them ?? Your thumb is normally not used to fret and it is placed behind the fret board for support. Other than the thumb use the remaining 4 fingers to fret. The usage of little finger could be a little less when compared to ring finger or middle finger however it depends...
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Hi Kumarpalaksha, Why not all of them ?? Your thumb is normally not used to fret and it is placed behind the fret board for support. Other than the thumb use the remaining 4 fingers to fret. The usage of little finger could be a little less when compared to ring finger or middle finger however it depends from person to person.One of my friend lost his ring finger in an accident and he still plays pretty good lead. read less
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All fingers in case you need to play across frets and do a bit stretching here and there :)
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