Hand Position And Basic Technique Drill For Guitar 101

For blues players, technique is kind of a dirty word, and that's too bad...
When I get students that come in and they keep working on something but it just won't get any better, most of the time, it's a simple couple of tweaks to the left hand position.
Of course, when we play the blues, we don't use a classical style of hand position, but if you can do that type of hand position, it'll raise your baseline and make it so that when you make it more difficult by putting your thumb over the top, it's still better.
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[@spleefdowny]

Great lesson! Instantly fixed something I’ve wrestled with for 40 years - thank you!

[@dbwright69]

Thanks for this video, I have been really struggling lately to increase my speed, this lesson came at the perfect time.

[@rolandjgutierrez4147]

Your instruction how and not to I fill it's important to show the don'ts you are a true teacher man you thaght me so much on this video I look at my playing at another angle when I would hunt with my dad walking in the mountains he would say weres the truck or look back where we came threw showing me like when I would walk back to the truck I remember I've seen this before and thank you for sharing..Roland J Gutierrez from Magdalena New Mexico USA.....P.S. By the way my father is in his 80s he can hunt he has killed 3 big 10 point bucks mule dear the last 3 years in a row over a 100yards shots while being over 80 years old not counting all the other years before..thanks

[@wogfahov]

Watching your left hand during the exercise made me realize my hand isn’t so abnormal, either. Thanks!
And that t-shirt. LOL

[@ekuryluk]

Thank you for this video. I just started playing guitar 5 months ago, and getting my hand position correct is the most frustrating part. Maybe it's because I'm older (51), but this exercise gets painful. Starting from the 7th fret is less painful, and working my way up the neck gave me some early success before the pain set in. BTW - I call the "wrong" way the "air guitar position". In my case I know I'm trying to break the habit of playing the air guitar for 40 years.

[@tmarti3207]

I did not know that trick going down.I always had issues moving in that direction Definetely I ll try. Thanks for the tip!

[@johnw4659]

The descending exercise is a lot harder than it looks but I'm glad now to have something concrete to practice. Thank you for this and all of your other videos, Griff. Much appreciated!

[@capntinwhistle]

Great video - thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@loripeytonband]

Very concise & helpful video... thank you...

[@lawoodchuck]

Another great lesson.
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[@ekw555]

I never realized there was a net! 😀
I feel safer already.

[@chonlanglais]

Hi could you please do a video on how to play in the hand blues position i can perfectly do the exercises with the classical position but as soon as I change to a hand blues position i can't reach any notes or hardly move my fingers its very frustrating.i can't do an A chord with my index finger and reach the notes one step higher with my ring finger with thumb muting the low E string. Thanks for your videos

[@avatar90404]

Great lesson...Can you do a technique lesson on playing in the higher registers where the frets are closer together? I've always admired your technique, seems to be flawless...

[@realjumper]

This is just the kind of exercise that I was wanting!! Thank you!

[@xavpil2]

Thank you thank you! Been looking for suck a video

[@virginiarose6800]

Dude your timing is a little bit off coming up from the fingering of the 1234 then back up from 4321. You are playing to fast for beginners

[@chamajid]

are you playing on squire strat guitar?

[@clownproductions2018]

Thanks bro! ;)

[@jamespeters9012]

in Jazz teaching its called gymnastics....great exercise.

[@grosslyincandescentgaming5130]

It's not the size of the hand that's getting to us, it's the length and thickness of our fingers

[@ReyBanYAHUAH]

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[@stevef4010]

"Walkin a tightrope"...nice SRV pun. Just don't get caught in a crossfire playing live.