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03-01-2011, 12:05 PM
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Pulling on neck
Hi
I've read suggestions to pull the neck towards the body with the fretting hand, using the biceps, for greater ease of playing barre chords on the first few frets. My concern is that it would damage or bend the neck over time. What do you think? Last edited by wintersnowman; 03-01-2011 at 12:25 PM. 
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#2
03-01-2011, 12:37 PM
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You'll also sound slightly out of tune. Terrible advice.
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#3
03-01-2011, 12:59 PM
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You can push the neck with your left hand while you press in on the upper part of your guitar with your right hand to get a sort of "whammy bar" effect. I played with this cat who did that all of the time. SG electric. Eventually, he broke that sucker!
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#4
03-01-2011, 01:09 PM
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Yeah, the effect is fun...I do it all the time on my Tele...I'd think twice before trying it with a set neck, but Bill Frisell did it with an SG for years (although you see him with a tele more often now...)
A little delay...so delightfully seasick. But it's NOT a technique for making barre chords easier.
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#5
03-01-2011, 01:24 PM
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Don't pull on neck just to do fretting or barres.
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03-01-2011, 03:09 PM
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If you've ever seen Peppino D'Agostino play, then you will see him do this with an acoustic all the time. He will place one hand on the top beside the neck and grasp the head with his left hand and push on it. It gives it a slight 'whammy bar' sound. As long as you don't get too aggressive I doubt it would be an issue.
Jack
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03-01-2011, 05:35 PM
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Thanks guys for your replies. Another thing, there is another popular suggestion with regards to using the side of your finger to barre the chord. I have tried this, and experienced a pain in my wrist within 1 or 2 minutes of barring. I have tried to angle my arm slightly while my finger is slightly turned so my hand is in a straight line as my arm. But the pain still remains. Is this normal when one first tries this?
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#8
03-01-2011, 05:50 PM
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The first thing I check with students having trouble with barre chords is their wrist position. It's much easier with the neck of the guitar elevated so that the wrist can be directly under it, not behind it. Perhaps that's why I learned to hold a guitar in something close to "classical position," even though I'm now comfortable with it on my right leg. It just feels easier to me, even when standing with a strap, to have the neck elevated.
cotten
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#9
03-01-2011, 06:13 PM
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Tilt only the finger, not the wrist.
It's not truly the "side" of the finger, you're just rolling it back slightly. if your wrist hurts, you're trying too hard. And like cotten says, elevate that neck. This is no time to look like jimmy page.
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#10
03-01-2011, 06:21 PM
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Talk about pulling necks? I give you Kent Dykes. I did read that after 6 months to a year he would just throw his Stratocaster in a dumpster as it would be done for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xImLoEC_F64
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#11
03-01-2011, 06:44 PM
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Kinda funny, considering strats have bolt on necks...
I'd like to find that dumpster.
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