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Guitar Left Hand Technique – TWO “Correct” Positions…

Load More The 2 Left Hand Positions You Need To Know On Guitar: There is more than one “correct” guitar left hand position. Regardless of whether you play classical guitar, acoustic or electric… There are actually two basic left hand

Discover The Light Finger

How Do Fingers Work On Guitar? A guitar player uses their fingers on the strings the same way a runner uses their legs. How is that done? We shift our weight to one leg. We relax the other leg and

Walking Across Strings With The Heavy Arm

Walking Across The Strings With The Heavy Arm I hope you enjoyed learning about 1The Light Finger 2The Firm Finger 3The Floating Arm 4The Heavy Arm 5All Aboard 6Walking Across The Strings With Heavy Arm Putting It All Together: The

Guitar Left Hand: The 2 Bad Habits Everyone Gets

GUITAR LEFT HAND: THE 2 BAD HABITS YOU MUST AVOID Every guitar player gets these bad habits right at the start. Learn what they are, how to avoid them, and how to get rid of them.... The Problem In Action:

Pull-Offs (Guitar Lesson): The ULTIMATE Guide

Pull-offs on guitar can be tricky to master, but once you get the hang of them, they're one of the key ways to play faster and adds more of a fluid sound to your playing.As a result, it is one

Guitar Bad Habit #3: Pinky Curl Fix with “Tight Curl”

Can You Curl Your Pinky - All The Way? A guitar player needs to be able to curl the left hand pinky completely. If you can't you will have lots of playing problems. Here is the fix

Walking With Light Fingers

Walking Across The Strings With Light Fingers When guitar fingers are playing a note, they must be firm in order to press the string to the fret.And, we must teach the fingers to direct the weight of the arm to

String Push Downs & All Aboard

String Push Downs & All Aboard Exercise Now Now we are going to learn 2 very important things: How to use minimum finger pressure to press the string down. This helps to give us great control of finger pressure, which

Separating Fingers 2 & 3 On The Left Hand On Guitar

A very common technical issue for all guitar students is the problem of separating fingers 2 & 3. Every time the 2nd finger is used, the 3rd finger squeezes against it! This will cause problems with just about everything you

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Jamie Andreas is the author of "The Principles Of Correct Practice For Guitar".

She has dedicated her life to creating guitar training methods that will bring anyone to the pro level of guitar playing.