mark indigo -> RE: Fandangos clip, feedback solicited. (Mar. 29 2020 14:43:08)
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Constructive feedback wanted if you have a minute. I think head-neck relationship is important. Try to keep your head over your body, not in front of it, but do that without force or tension. The way to achieve that is to not pull it forward and down.... Take a photo or still and put a piece of paper over the head, look at the body and think where the head should be. Then move the paper and see where it is... do the same the other way round, look at the head and cover the body with the paper. In the video Andy Culpepper posted about posture that guy says "head over heart, heart over hips". That's not a bad way to put it, but again, without force or tension. I don't really like the idea of "posture" as it seems like a static concept. If you can find the so-called "right posture" you then have to hold it and never move! I think the relationship between parts is more important. People can have so-called "good posture" but be stiff and rigid and with pain resulting from that, and others can have so-called "bad posture" but be loose and relaxed. I see many good players sitting badly, hunched over the guitar (we often can't see this because we tend to watch from the front), but their hands, arms, shoulders and necks are loose and relaxed and they play brilliantly. Players who sit with one leg crossed over the other really often rotate the pelvis back and sit on their coccyx, and although as I said if their hands and upper body are moving well they may not have any problems from that.... yet. Sitting like that over time will inevitably strain the muscles in the back, and many players do suffer from back problems. One tour in the late 90's I remember PDL was using a footstool under his right foot as he was apparently having some back problem at the time, and Vicente Amigo had to have surgery for a back problem.
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