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Amazing how much one minor change in hand positioning can mean.
So I’ve been trying to learn Hozier’s cherry wine and there is one part where I have to do a hammer on. Logically it should be done with my middle finger, but try as I might I just can’t get it to hammer on unless it’s exactly in one spot. Tried to practice it for an hour and just couldn’t get it. Then I thought, well let me try my forefinger. Immediately I was able to get the hammer on perfectly.
I’ll have to remember that the next time I have trouble with a certain cord or finger positioning. There might be an alternate way that will be easier for me. |
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When I followed private lessons with a pro,
he made me realize how my classical posture hampered my fingerstyle playing on a fourteen fret folk acoustic guitar.
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My guitar teacher had me make one small shift in angle with my thumb when I wasn’t getting the tone I wanted out of the bass notes. Sometimes a tiny change can make an enormous difference.
Best, Jayne |
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Bryan Sutton’s course on ArtistWorks was a revelation for me. He approaches posture, hand positions, guitar angle, pick angle, etc, as if it was baseball and he was a hitting coach. I thought I was pretty good on that stuff, but I had to take a few steps back and re-learn a couple things.
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As an old man with a slightly damaged fretting hand work arounds are what I do. It's either that or the music stops. And I'm playing more than ever now days. I noticed the other day that I use different fingers to play the same licks at times. And why not?
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I remember working on this track a couple of years ago and recall a reasonable stretch to a little finger hammer on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q93hlRt9P8k Great track though, will have to try and remember it!
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Amen! I'm trying to learn a song and just a simple change of the thumb position suggested by my guitar instructor made a portion I was practicing easier. Not a piece of cake, but easier.
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