Richard Jernigan -> RE: You Guys With That Cervical Vertebra Issue! (Nov. 18 2012 15:45:51)
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ORIGINAL: Ruphus Worse even with the species of guitar players. With their one-sided posture of one arm lifted and one hanging ( while pulled up by the shoulder, like Richard does ... hehehehehehe [:D] psst ... don´t tell him I said that [;)] ) they aggravate the situation by habitually turning their head to the left to watch their crooked flippers crawling up and down the neck. - As if it could help it any. Folks, try playing blindly. Seriously. It really yields great. gray Ruphus [8D] I should just give up, but I will repeat for the n-th time: When playing in the traditional position, the shoulders should be level, and the guitar should be held by the weight of the right arm, without muscular tension. It took a while to figure this out. Most people start off doing it wrong. Keeping on doing it wrong can result in injury. The traditional flamenco position seemed to work okay for Scott Tennant when I saw him in concert a couple of weeks ago. He had the strongest and most fluent technique of the four members of the L.A. guitar quartet--all of them impressive virtuosi. Kanengeiser was using a Dynarette cusihon on his left thigh with a low footstool, Dearman had quite a high footstool, Greif looked pretty close to the usually prescribed classical position with a footstool at a moderate height. A variety of positions can work. Any of them can be done wrong and result in injury. I agree with the advice to play without looking at the left hand. When I practice scales I do it in the dark, or with my eyes shut. I haven't led a particularly inactive life: about 150,000 miles (240,000 km) of motorcycling, 35 years of running 6-8 miles (10-13 km) per day, 1500 scuba dives, playing guitar 2 or more hours a day for 5 decades.... I'll be 75 years old the day before Christmas. The only musculo-skeletal problem i suffer is a slight numbness in 3 and 4 on the left hand, the result of a pinched nerve in the neck from a motorcycle wreck in my early 30s. RNJ
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