0:00 That look lol!
0:10 (starts laughing again)
0:12 NOOB JOSH! He’s back!
0:17 (still laughing – can’t…breathe…)
0:35 (gasps in shock and horror) NOOB JOSH WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!? (I didn’t think he was athletic at all.)
0:45 And having your fingers twisted like that looks painful.
0:53 Noticed your giant alien fingers? Yeah just a little bit
0:59 – 1:01 <<< the three second point in time where we all stand a chance of sounding better than Josh. If we try real hard.
1:14 (looks at Josh’s shirt more closely now that I’ve stopped laughing)
Oooooh, Daft Punk!
(falls into a cosmic Daft Punk wormhole)
(wakes up on sofa two hours later, dizzy, and covered in space glitter)
“Aw, man – again?! I’m going to have to finish this tomorrow.”
(shuffles off to bed)
Next Day…
1:30 “Plop the neck behind your fingers.” Great and easy reset when you’re feeling twisted.
1:51 [Noob Josh loses his temper] Easily my favorite part of this video. 
3:27 “Microshifting saves energy.” I totally agree, because you know what’s really inefficient? Not playing because you can’t make a stretch.
3:36 “…shifting is a simple movement at the shoulder and elbow, which uses much larger muscle groups that don’t have to do much work to move your hand like this.” An important point! The more gross motor work you can push off onto muscles with more capacity, the more your fingers can focus on fine motor skills, like landing on the right fret.
3:56 “fretting hand thumb pressure as light as possible” my fretting thumb also doubles as my Achilles’ Heel.
4:47 Call to Action! “When can we stop putting these in every YouTube Video?” “preach, sister” LOL Nope! Your “struggles” with this YouTube peculiarity are fantastic dramady all on their own. 
4:52 Whoooo, Kim Deal!
5:14 [noobasana] (partial Wilhelm Scream) My daughter ran to the kitchen to get a drink of water and then did a spit-take.
5:55 Stretching on 9, 10, 11, 12 – love this exercise! Partially because the bass line I learned for “We Are Going to Be Friends” is played exclusively on the 10th and 12th frets.
7:02 “Curse you, Leo Fender!” My daughter’s new go-to swear.
7:15 Every time you throw a pick over your shoulder in a video, it is a delight. But that poor cat!
7:27 Whoaaaa check out the bass face on Noob Josh!
7:55 [Stanley shreds] (Ella laughs at Noob Josh’s expression)
8:13 “plus some hubris” (Kristine laughs at Regular Josh’s expression)
9:08 Oh, Noob Josh – this is what happens when you use a bass as a bat. You end up in a boss fight.
Mostly the same way people with larger hands make it work - patience, accepting my own set of limitations, creating workarounds, not comparing to other people. A healthy dose of spite…I mean, persistence. 
Play in front of a mirror to see how your hands look. There are some riffs I’ve tried to play in such a way that all four fingers stay mostly together and straight, and it’s hard to tell which fingers are actually working. For added fun and mystery. 
I didn’t know who those other kids were, though, nice finds!
(this weekend has been a whole mood though, so the issue is me - not the title of the video)
