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Originally Posted by 3notes
In all seriousness, could you give us one example of a change you had to make.?? Something other than which knee to place the guitar.
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There are so many things, I don't know even where to start.
The position the right arm contacts the guitar, the angle of the right wrist, the angle of the right fingers, where on the right fingers the strings strike the string, the shaping of the nails, right hand rest stroke, right hand fingers contacting the string flesh and nail at the same time, alternating plucking right hand fingers... most of which has to do with control of sound - warm/cold, emphasis of an individual note while playing a number of simultaneous notes to bring out/emphasize a melody and duration of note, volume of note - duration - staccato, legato, note separation - and speed.
The position of the left hand, not having the left palm touch the neck/keeping the thumb towards the middle of the back of the neck, keeping left hand fingers parallel to the strings/not bending left wrist left/right, playing with the tips of the left fingers, improved pull-offs/hammer-ons, multi-string barres with the pinky finger, barre chords diagonally across two frets, barring middle strings while allowing outside strings to ring...
That barely scratches the surface.
It's stuff that gives one the tools, the abilities, for greater variety in expression. It's like rather than painting with only one brush and one color, having an entire range of differing brushes from which to choose and a large pallet of colours. The brushes allow differing levels of detail and texture, while the colours enable an entirely new means of expression.
As I said before, it depends on what range of expression one wants to have. If three chord songs and some strumming fulfil the range of expression one wants to have, that's fine and pretty easily accomplished.