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@Loraine when you say push down on your elbow, what does this really mean? I can lower my shoulders as much as possible but once it’s all the down, how much more pushing is possible? Now I can raise the guitar neck also so the elbow continues to descend relative to my fretting hand.
What I am finding is that I literally am pushing the left elbow into my ribs in order to be able to lay my index finder on it’s side (the bony part, not the fleshy part). Doing this there is a limit to how far you can lay down #1 because you start to have muting problems with #2 and #3 because now you are fretting on the side of those fingers (no longer with the tips).
There always seems to be a trade off between getting good, clean sound from the notes F (#1), C (#1), A (#2) and F (#3).
I hope all this isn’t confusing you @stpotter329gmail-com .