Jon Boyes -> RE: Barree, the monster (Oct. 24 2005 9:00:57)
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ORIGINAL: Ryan002 If you have a lot of time and patience, practise lifting heavy stacks of books by gripping with just the thumb and index finger. When the muscles controlling these fingers tear, Wow, I have to say that's not to be recommended! This is not good advice at all - exactly the opposite of what he should be doing. This a a recipe for bulding up lots of tension, and causing injury. Tearing muscles?? Ouch!! Brute force/muscle bulding is not the way to a get good barres, its all about good technique, and technique is subtle. My favourite way of demonstrating the futility of the above approach is by holding down a barre chord without the thumb touching the back of the neck. Sorry to be hard on you Ryan, but its to easy to get injured with poor practice. BTW - classical guitar = no stamina for barres? You have to be kidding, man. Jon
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