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fred rosenberger wrote: These forms are easier to do, but hard to change from one to another.
... was referring to magic tricks, but the same is really true for magic, basketball, golf, guitar, piano, oragami, etc.
Pat Farrell wrote:In one of the classic Beatles songs, John and Paul refer to "He knows all the chords"
Joanne
Joanne Neal wrote:by Dire Straits. "Guitar George, he knows all the chords, but he's strictly rhythm, he doesn't want to make it cry or sing."
But ironically, not on When My Guitar Gently WeepsPat Farrell wrote:George H made it gently weep more than once.
Joanne
Joanne Neal wrote:... Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits...
"We're kind of on the level of crossword puzzle writers... And no one ever goes to them and gives them an award." ~Joe Strummer
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"We're kind of on the level of crossword puzzle writers... And no one ever goes to them and gives them an award." ~Joe Strummer
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marc weber wrote:Too many beginners approach fingering a chord the way a bodybuilder strikes a pose. If you want to be fast and fluid, you need to loosen up.
(I'm just guessing, but... Chances are your wrist is behind the neck. Move it below the neck, so your fingers have room to arch. Also, your elbow is probably too close to your body, and that's putting a weird angle on your wrist.)
Pat Farrell wrote: A properly setup guitar is tons easier to play than most "student" guitars.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
Pat Farrell wrote:... Nearly all guitar teachers teach (I'll give @marc time to correct me if I'm wrong) that you put your thumb in the middle of the back of the neck. It feels weird at first, and is how how you see the famous rock stars play, but do it anyway. After a bit of practice, it helps you arch your fingers into proper shape, and its a lot easier to control pressure by squeezing between your thumb and fingers.
Also, have your guitar teacher check the setup of your guitar. Lots of inexpensive "student" guitars are badly setup, and have the strings far too high off of the frets -- requiring that you move the string a long way to make the chord. And too many have way too much tension, so it feels like you are trying to make a chord out of the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge. A properly setup guitar is tons easier to play than most "student" guitars.
"We're kind of on the level of crossword puzzle writers... And no one ever goes to them and gives them an award." ~Joe Strummer
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"We're kind of on the level of crossword puzzle writers... And no one ever goes to them and gives them an award." ~Joe Strummer
sscce.org
Pat Farrell wrote:
Nearly all guitar teachers teach (I'll give @marc time to correct me if I'm wrong) that you put your thumb in the middle of the back of the neck. It feels weird at first, and is how how you see the famous rock stars play, but do it anyway. After a bit of practice, it helps you arch your fingers into proper shape, and its a lot easier to control pressure by squeezing between your thumb and fingers.
No more Blub for me, thank you, Vicar.
fred rosenberger wrote:
Pat Farrell wrote: A properly setup guitar is tons easier to play than most "student" guitars.
Isn't it like calculus? You have to learn the hard way to do a derivative before the easy way?
John Todd wrote:No I don't think so.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
fred rosenberger wrote:
John Todd wrote:No I don't think so.
I was trying (and apparently failing) to be humorous.
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