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  • Question on Fretting Hand Finger AnglesDateSat Feb 28, 2015 11:55 pm
    Forum post by blitzer. Topic: Question on Fretting Hand Finger Angles

    Thanks again for the responses, I decided to involve a mirror and take some pictures that clearly show my wrist.
    1) Shows the best fingers but the most crane.
    2) Shows how I would normally play (less crane, but worse finger angles).
    3) Is my attempt at the hand angle Pebber Brown is using in "How to Practice Scales" (I tried to post the link but I got "Your posts contains to many links. A maximum of 0 links is allowed", it may not be obvious, but my 1st finger is touching the fret wire with no pressure and is touching almost every string. My 4th finger also has no pressure, and I'm finding it very difficult to actually reach the frets.

    uderoche:
    "Stick with it! You can make it happen."
    -> Thank you for the encouragement.

    "for the 4th finger which needs to be more curved"
    -> To my eye, the 1st and 4th fingers look more/less identical to me, what is the difference between the two? Am I just not "seeing it"?

    Farelli:
    -> I took a picture of where my guitar likes to "settle" when standing (I've tried to get it higher but that is about as high as it is willing to go in terms of angle). I also actually sit in the classical position as well, I went back to it after a shoulder surgery and I just could not play in the "rock" position anymore without shoulder pain.

    pebberbrown:
    "heres the page"
    -> Thank you for pointing this out.

  • Question on Fretting Hand Finger AnglesDateFri Feb 27, 2015 5:20 am
    Forum post by blitzer. Topic: Question on Fretting Hand Finger Angles

    Hey Farelli,
    " "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin"
    -> looks it up....Yup, you are right.

    Your points on stretching / making stretches are well taken, I tried to take some pictures of where I currently am on a "regular" stretch (1-5 fret low E with 1,2,3 fingers). "Normal" would be if I stop myself when I'm actually playing, my wrist seems okay, but you can see the 1st and 4th fingers really are about half way in-between the finger tips and finger pads, and my 3rd finger is a bit too far over the top...so not so great. "Wrist way out" shows much better finger angles, but (and this may not show well on the photo) my wrist is waaaaay out there, a "super crane". Have not figured out how to get the angle without the wrist break.

  • Question on Fretting Hand Finger AnglesDateWed Feb 25, 2015 8:06 am
    Forum post by blitzer. Topic: Question on Fretting Hand Finger Angles

    musicalhair,

    Thanks again for the info, I'll make sure to watch those two videos you spoke of.

  • Question on Fretting Hand Finger AnglesDateTue Feb 24, 2015 4:53 am
    Forum post by blitzer. Topic: Question on Fretting Hand Finger Angles

    musicalhair, Farelli:

    Thank you for the additional clarification. Just curious, how do either of you handle a stretch of something like 1-5 (I end up fairly rotated on finger 1/4, and tend end up closer to my finger pads)? Just live with it?

    -side note: sigh...my pinky just does not want to get with the angle program...

  • Question on Fretting Hand Finger AnglesDateSun Feb 22, 2015 10:48 pm
    Forum post by blitzer. Topic: Question on Fretting Hand Finger Angles

    Hello musicalhair,

    are we looking at the pad of the finger? Is your finger nail in back of what we're seeing?
    -> I've added a second picture that should help explain what you are looking at (I guess it could be confusing if you didn't take the picture). The purpose of it was to demonstrate that when I look for "lines" on my finger(s) where I'm actually contacting the strings (on scale runs / not chord/barre shapes), I'm usually at or between Ideal / The Yellow Line. I was trying to establish how far away from Ideal is still acceptable/how much variance is experienced by other players.

    At any rate, thank you for the practice outline.

  • Question on Fretting Hand Finger AnglesDateSun Feb 22, 2015 9:01 am
    Topic by blitzer. Forum: PB Guitarstudio FORUMS

    Hello everyone, I've recently had some time to "get back into" guitar which I'm enjoying. However, while watching a number of Mr. Brown's videos, I've become very paranoid about how correct or acceptable my left and finger angles are when fretting a note (and I'm talking about fretting while doing scales or other non-barre chord style notes / shapes).

    I was stopping myself mid scale / song and then jamming my fingers around to get a nice groove that I could look at to see my impact angles, tried to take picture of that, and realized my camera is terrible. So instead I took a bad picture of my index finger and added in some axis lines to show what I'm doing.

    I've heard over and over "tip of the finger", but trying to actually get a good look at someone's fingertip while they play is pretty difficult (especially on video), so I'm interested to see if what I'm doing is considered "acceptable" or at least decent since I'm not really sure how much deviation from perfect still is o.k (well, I suppose you can argue that any deviation is not acceptable, but I think you know what I'm getting at) .

    Any thoughts are appreciated, thank you for reading.

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