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Hi Everyone
I’m enjoying the guitar lessons very much, I’ve only been playing a couple of months but I feel I’m picking things up quite well, my problem is barring and playing another string , my ring finger just won’t stop touching another string and muting it, the lesson I’m trying to learn is Pattern 1- Lick 5
any advice would be much appreciated,
thanks
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Mark,
You are probably dropping your wrist too low beneath the neck with your thumb also too low on the back of the neck. Try bringing your thumb higher on the neck or even over the fretboard, bring your palm, where it meets the index finger, right up against the lower fret board and angle your index finger. That should give you enough arc to stop the muting. A lot of blues requires this thumb over the fretboard technique.
I’ll post a picture when my phone has some charge.
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I wish I could do that, but I can’t because my fingers are too short. I really envy the guys with long fingers, like John Mayer who constantly wrap their thumbs over the 6th and even the 5th string. So I have to take the approach that classical guitarists are taught: Bend your wrist and strive to get your fingers to come straight down onto the fretboard. It doesn’t work well when you’re holding an electric guitar over your right leg (as opposed to holding it over your left leg like a classical guitar) but it is possible to develop a kind of hybrid position that is a cross between the classical and blues positions. The main thing is to focus on the angle that your finger approaches the string.
Sunjamr Steve
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