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RE: Right hand Pinky / Little finger
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Miguel de Maria
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 RE: Right hand Pinky / Little finger (in reply to rombsix)
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Rombsix,
As I write this, I notice your pinky is even sticking out in your avatar :)
To unlearn a habit, it is helpful to isolate the feeling of the habit.
1. as you play, intentionally stick out your pinky. exaggerate it! Make sure you know what that feels like.
2. this simple awareness may give you the ability to relax the pinky.
Sounds too easy, but it might work. Your experiment of curling the pinky is similar to this technique. You will, of course, have to drill the "right" way once you have found it, to make a new habit.
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Date Aug. 5 2011 6:37:41
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rombsix
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RE: Right hand Pinky / Little finger (in reply to gaash)
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I use a Logitech C910 webcam. It provides 720p at 24 fps which is MORE than enough in my opinion to get decent quality videos. It only costs $75 in the USA. Also, if you know how to set this camera's built-in microphone, you can use the camera to record both your audio and your video simultaneously and easily, and the audio will be very very very acceptable to say the LEAST (check out xirdneh_imiJ and the videos he posted of Moraito buleria material in the Falseta Swap Shop), and the video will be great obviously. The videos by xirdneh_imiJ were recorded purely using the C910 using its built in microphone. If you like the videos and the audio in them, buy yourself a C910. I will tell you how to tweak the settings to get it to produce the best quality audio and video.
For audio, I use a CAD u37 USB microphone ($50), which provides decent audio quality (even though I could simply use the built-in microphone in the C910, but I have this USB microphone, so I use it).
Cheers!
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Date Aug. 19 2011 23:56:27
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Ruphus
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 RE: Right hand Pinky / Little finger (in reply to rombsix)
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ORIGINAL: rombsix
Thank you for the input, Orson.
Regarding the video: I am no expert on focal dystonia, but perhaps my medical background made me really belittle what this guy was saying. Playing guitar involves moving the fingers. The muscles involved in moving the fingers are located in the forearm. He is talking about the latissimus dorsi and the teres minor which act on the shoulder joint or humerus at best. I just wasn't able to imagine playing guitar from your shoulder joint. But what do I know...
Thanks again!
Hi Ramzi,
Could you imagine that contracting / relaxing your jaws will effect your motorbike riding abilities?
Relaxing jaws is what is being tought in German ADAC special biking courses, and I found things to quite work that way.
Thanks Orson for the link to the David Leisner video!
It appears to be the most useful practical info bit on FD ( and guitar playing in general ) that I have come accross so far.
The dorsal point under the armpit indeed affects the whole arms muscles. When I treat people with issues of overstrained flexors / extensors in the lower arm, I will also engage a receptor located where Leisner is referring to. The minute hit it will make you feel instantly how the complete arm gets released, and people habitually overstrained will additionally sense a clear tingle that goes down all the way to the fingertips.
What Leisner is saying in the video about delegating tasks to major / bigger muscles further upwards makes definite sense, and is in fact what you learn in advanced Wing Tsun.
By realizing how far up and remote in fact the steering of your fine extremities is located, dispense of superfluously engaged fine motorics will be taking place simultaneously, allowing you economizing of musclular and neural ressource.
Also noteworthy what he remarks about strained thumb pat.
This is one of the most intelligent reflections on ( for that matter ) musicians´ physiological background I have come accross so far and should be mandatory info for every guitar player; especially for beginners, to have them avoid from start what the common player is being stuck with throughout decades.
Finally, his suggestion to imagine plucking as reversed dropping.
In the same way fingers should return to idle, instead of by intentional extensor work the process should be deemed as gravital / dropping too ( just not seen reverse this time, naturally ).
( By understanding the principles behind the details in the video, you´ll also realize in the end how limiting sitting position is compared to upright and centered playing.)
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It should mean a significant favour to the community to have this video permanently linked to from the foros main page / technique section.
So useful!
Ruphus
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