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The heel of your hand on the bridge will adversely affect, maybe slightly, but still - the resonance of the guitar. You also want to be able to explore the sounds while picking over the sound hole and then closer to the bridge. Don't anchor.
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I can't remember ever anchoring with the pinky, but I may have when playing faster things. I'll float my hand or Palm mute depending on what I'm playing.
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I ended my last post with, "Don't anchor." That was kind of ignorant of me to say.
I don't anchor. I'm sure there are some incredible guitarists who do anchor. As far as the heel of your palm, however, you have a fantastic guitar that has a top that's designed to vibrate freely, and keeping the heel of your palm resting on the bridge will affect the tone a little, and you bought that great Taylor to sound as good as you can.
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Watch Tommy Emmanuel - he does all of those you listed, and several other hand adjustments as well. Whatever the situation calls for. There is no 'right' answer, and I use the pinky as my home-row-of-keys (if you get the analogy) to set my picking/plucking hand position, but it's never (NEVER NEVER NEVER) anchored. If you put weight on it, then you have to compensate elsewhere. I play with superb players who anchor, drop the pinkie, don't use a pinkie at all, play thumb-n-three, thumb-n-two, or thumb-n-one fingers. I think you need to explore and then settle on what suits the song. The most flexible fingerstyle is thumb-n-three fingers (some say thumb-n-four) because you can pluck more complex chord positions. And you can always scale down. Same family members don't play the same. Merle Travis played Thumb-n-one, whereas his son (Thom Bresh) is a dedicated Thumb-n-three. He can play his daddy's tunes quite nicely both ways. He also plays a hundred times faster than his daddy. Since I don't know you, I cannot answer whether you should focus on one at a time, or take on several. Some folks multi-task just fine, whereas others focus on one thing at a time. This is about you, not about US! Have fun exploring. |
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you are asking advice from strangers on the Internet.
50% of the people will say, with intense conviction, that you absolutely must anchor. The other 50% of the people will say, with intense conviction, that you absolutely must not anchor. Do what feels right to you and ignore everyone else.
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Teachers have told me that anchoring is ergonomically bad. I don’t know whether it’s demonstrably true, but I don’t anchor and my hands don’t hurt unless I spend too much time on a non-musical keyboard, and my playing doesn’t seem to suffer much.
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Do what feels natural without locking up your hands or creating tension. If you try something and notice tension or discomfort, it’s likely a good indication you should try something different.
For a beginner almost everything feels weird. So try lots of approaches and change it up. You will start noticing certain things work better with certain music. People who make a career out of a particular style will recommend a certain approach which works for them. Merle Travis didn’t play classical music. If he would try to play Bach, his technique would have to change. TE is such a brilliant guitarist because he uses all techniques as needed. There is your answer.
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You'd be right for classical guitar. Not for blues, country, folk, etc. I don't think anyone is saying you "have" to anchor the hand anyway - certainly not all the time. It's useful for some styles, some techniques, some tunes. Not for others.
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