Proper Technique with Playing Chords

Proper Technique with Playing Chords Hey everybody it’s Will Kriski again from online guitar coaching.com when you’re playing chords there’s some common issues that I see a lot of students run into and that is that some of the streams don’t sound clearly so when you play a chord it doesn’t matter which one it is you want to be able to hear each of those strings. If you’re— like that you don’t really know that I get them all so what you want to be able to do is after you play chord after you strum it, strum each individual string. I’m not sure you’re going to hear it nice and clear. It’s like a self test. I have a lot of students come in. They play the chord and I get them to do that and it turns out there’s a lot muted strings so it’s something that you can do on your own just by listening to yourself. I’m using this technique that I just showed you. Now the way you want play it is your hand okay you want to have a curl in your hand like this, okay so your hand comes down and around curls and then you’re using the tips of your fingers on the screen, okay for the most part. Sit your fingers and basically you want to have some space under here. So you know you can stick your finger in there because when the hand curls around if you’re touching you hear that so a lot of times this ring is supposed to be you can’t talk from my hand but that’s an open string if I rotate my wrist like this so that my wrist up kind of high. I’ll hit that so in order to get enough room so that these things can really open. The palm of your hand is right down here underneath the fret, underneath the Matt so you’re coming up in a curl situation. Now sometimes I have my hands instead of being completely you know perpendicular to the guitar basically you know straight down let’s say I’ve got an angle like this. It helps me to play the chords. When you put your fingers on the fret so you want to be this is the actual middle fret but when I say a third fret I mean the space here. You want to play behind this fret so you’re behind it so sometimes when you have a whole bunch of fingers like in the A chord you have to jam it all in here someone we can really close the fret and someone when you read further so you know you have some freedom to play within these range but you’re going to generally closer to the fret not right on it just striking like that buzzing or muting sound. Alright the problem is that you usually have the palm of your hand touches these string on the bottom. You don’t want that to happen. You’re not pushing hard enough on the fret so if I don’t push hard enough and as I add more fingers it can get harder to fret something because there’s more strength and you have 2 or 3 fingers on it all at the same time so you might be able to play this one okay as soon as you add this one this one takes the pressure off so you could be adding pressure on each finger so when you start out in 3 fingers you know you might find that certain ones you’re not pushing hard enough so and then the 3rd thing is this finger can touch the string right below it so let’s just do this. You want to be coming down at the string using the finger tips. If I start to flatten my finger and it has had a still fret at hit the string and make it buzz because basically you can see here the curl underneath my finger, the fleshy part is when I touch the screen underneath it like that. So you have to rotate your wrist like this and keep a curl in your finger. So the 3 most common prompts that I have seen are not pushing hard enough on the fret. You know on any of those three whatever finger you’re using not pushing hard enough on the fret the curl of your finger touching the screen below it, okay and then the 3rd thing is that the palm touching the E strings and just be aware of that and make sure every string can curly so those are 3 things you can check to make sure that you’re playing the chord correctly and sort of outline the way that you play and record the way you approach it so good luck with that.