Timeline for How do you deal with longer right hand middle finger when playing classical guitar?
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| Jan 4 at 21:29 | comment | added | John Belzaguy | @Tim I actually meant to say the B might get touched inadvertently when trying to play the G string. | |
| Jan 4 at 10:59 | comment | added | Tim | @JohnBelzaguy - the middle finger often gets used to play the 2nd string, (no, not always, sometimes!) so that throws even more confusion! Now, I vtc until better info. is forthcoming. | |
| Jan 3 at 17:30 | comment | added | John Belzaguy | @Tim since finger curvature was mentioned I just thought the issue might be touching the B string before the G because the middle finger is longer. As we know from experience we have to curve our fingers different amounts to make contact with a single string but this is a learned skill. As with a lot of first time posters, there has been no comment or clarification regarding their issue so far. | |
| Jan 3 at 9:21 | comment | added | Tim | @JohnBelzaguy - since plucking on classicals is usually towards the next string down in pitch (pluck string 3, end up touching string 4) my answer is based on that. But we know what assumptions do... Ah, I assumed finger touching the adjacent string before the proper pluck. Your assumption also? | |
| Jan 2 at 22:20 | comment | added | John Belzaguy | Since they are talking about a longer middle finger I believe by “below” the OP means the string physically below, as in the higher string. Clarification should be provided by the asker. | |
| Jan 2 at 20:06 | comment | added | Tim | @ToddWilcox - seems you know a lot more, so a superior answer is awaited. | |
| Jan 2 at 18:49 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | An alternate approach that wouldn’t get my downvote would be to wait until the question is clear to you before attempting to answer. Also this answer reads like it was written by someone who doesn’t know a lot about classical guitar technique, which further suggests just refraining from answering entirely. And there’s some points here that I’m pretty sure are simply wrong. So to me it’s more harmful than helpful. Anchoring is only an opinion as much as any refined and sound and universally used technique is. Maybe a few pros don’t do it but that’s no reason to say not to. | |
| Jan 2 at 15:09 | comment | added | Tim | @ToddWilcox - given the sparse information in the question, i was trying to be as helpful as I could. Yes, of course there are real answers to this. Whether they're actually relevant to OP is another matter. And, anchoring (or not) with the thumb - opinion. I'm trying, other answers please! | |
| Jan 2 at 14:57 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | This seems like a lot of words that don’t contain a real answer. And there are real answers to this. The only thing valuable here is “find a teacher” which imho goes in a comment, not in an answer. Oh and the part about not anchoring with the thumb is kinda wrong in many situations. Or at least isn’t not always right and in my experience poor advice to give to someone learning. | |
| Jan 2 at 9:48 | history | answered | Tim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |