|
Ruphus -> RE: Toddk's hybrid picking demo video (Apr. 25 2014 15:46:28)
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: guitarbuddha
The great thing about a Telecaster or other electric guitar is that you can play standing up or walking around which is very therapeutic.
 
I do that during most of sessions.
And I have tried to introduce the benfits of upright playing, and better even with centered suspension to the nylon communities.
However, the flamenco guys and more even the classicals ( "naturally", you could say ) would hardly care enough to even respond.
Kenny Hill, who discovered the ergonomic advantage as well, even developed a dedicated stand-up guitar. http://www.hillguitar.com/website/catalog/standup.html
I tried to persuade him for to discover the yet distinctively superiour one-point suspension, in place of the common two-point strap that he intends for his adapted model. However, he showed just as inflexible as the common user.
-
There is a reason why professional restaurant giggers like to use soundhole hooks. It is the almost ideal way to go. Yet, if you can make that hook stay centered to your upper body / solar plexus, you get the heaven made perfect hold.
It´s flexibility in all directions, except of its over-all position teaches your hands to find their place blindly, while you may discover with pleasure how musical the agility of a standing body and its rhythm supporting swing actually is.
... Or don´t.
It will be coming anyway as futures feature and position.
-
Hey Grisha,
It was your technique that made me of the first heads who once started pointing out you for the ( classical) guitar community.
I don´t know how you execute today, but years ago I thought your technique to have been about perfect.
Now hearing of your injury, without wanting to sound smart assing or overzealous, of the several ideas coming up about eventual causes and useful ways to smooth things out, I would like to reduce it to a short essence:
If the injury is based on muscular or neuronal matter, try to highlight any superfluous contraction and to shut it down.
I know, sounds just too ordinary, but such can be life.
( There seem to have been many cases, where extremely good players after peak devolved into needless and bad habits which then introduced antagone exercise, hence blockade.)
I wish you full recovery and a playing as seamless and delightful as it gets.
I need you as inspiration after all.
Ruphus
Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px
|
|
|
|
