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Originally Posted by pg60
My advice is don't stress on knowing lots of chords. I wasted too much time on this before I realized that it's the right hand that makes it sound good! Spend (at least) as much time on right hand technique as learning chords.
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Absolutely! The right hand - ie the control of timing, rhythm, dynamics and accent - is way under-regarded in a lot of teaching.
Some people even equate the word "rhythm" with chord shapes and chord sequences -
harmonic information, with no rhythmic content at all!
It seems to be assumed that the right hand's job can be taken for granted, as it's the "good" hand, and its job seems easy.
There's a very good reason why our stronger hands are on the strumming end, and our weaker hands on the fretting end. (Just as violinists bow with their stronger hand, and finger with their weaker.)
Think about it...