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The next thing is about the left hand (Guitar playing) and the finger placement (Guitar playing). When making chords or playing single notes, what you want to do. Here is the first thing I like to say, you never want to do what I called banana fingering and that means, your fingers are like this, okay. Now, let us say I am making a C chord here and I am going to play a perfect C chord right now (Guitar playing).
Now, if I were to lean my finger out of position, just a little bit. I am going to get this (Guitar playing) and what does the chord sound so bad? It is all about the left hand fingering. You want your knuckles to always be bent up, over and straight down (Guitar playing). Imagine that if you have eyeballs on your very fingertip. Make sure that there is always spacing at the very top of the fingerboard, never like this, always like this, never like this, always like this (Guitar playing)
And that is where your left hand should be (Guitar playing). Now, if you see as I am going through these chords here, look at my fingers, knuckles, up, over, first knuckle down. This is the important one, the first knuckle. Make sure that thing always got a break in it.
I see guitar players all the time. I see students all the time. They got either bent or straight and it is just – it is got to be up over and down. So, remember to keep that left hand fingering and keep that bent (Guitar playing) just like that and you get nice, clean chords (Guitar playing) as where you want the left hand.
Now I see a lot of people as far as the thumb, as a general rule, you want your thumb to be about here, although with an acoustic guitar and sometimes when we are playing (Guitar playing) folk music, we will bend it over. For instance, when I make a C chord and we will go into that a little bit later, but I like to take my thumb and mute that string out (Guitar playing) because the C chord is only a five-string chord.
In this way, if I actually hit the 6th string, (Guitar playing) it is not going to accept (Guitar playing) but if I did not (Guitar playing) see, it kind of sound a little funny. So, with your thumb, basically, here is a good position. But if you are going to lean it over a little bit, not too far, just be mindful of where it is, okay. And that is left hand fingering.
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