ernandez R -> RE: Frets' metal strips (Fret wires) (Oct. 1 2020 18:53:55)
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ORIGINAL: Richard Jernigan A useful exercise: Touch a left hand finger to a string above a fret, but don't push it down onto the fret. Pluck the string with the right hand. Result: thunk! Gradually start pressing down with the left hand while continuing to pluck with the right hand. Result: Thunk, thunk, thunk, rattle (when the string first touches the fret.) Very gradually continue pressing down with the left hand until the note sounds clearly. Don't ever press harder than that. RNJ Richard, I had dealt with left hand pain forever. I would get in a groove with a piece and play for a few weeks until I was crippled and couldn't play again for a month or more. I would get frustrated and the guitar would sit untouched for months; almost forty years of this. A couple years ago I bumped into a thread on the Delcamp where a instructor advised this: Fret a cord loosely so that all the strings buzz while strumming, then slowly increase tension until each string rings clear. Simple really but it takes some practice and attention to each string. It was also noted that one needs pay attention to each finger pressure as well as the whole hand. Now the last item was to cord lightly played passages and single note runs without touching the back of the neck with the thumb. It was surprising how little tension one needs to hold in the left hand to play clean. One other item I picked up, as one increases the right hand power and volume it is nessasary to recalibrate the left hand as most tend to squeeze too hard with the left out of proportion. Again it usually takes less pressure then one thinks. When I notice that familure ache in my hands I lighten up, get my strings buzzing, then just-enough-pressure. I've been playing pain free for a couple years now, two to three hour sessions, with my blue collar grease under my nails well worked fifty five year all hands. HR
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