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I played Electric guitar, poorly, forever before I wised up and switched to Acoustic guitar. Electric picking allowed me to form many poor fingering habits ,just because it was easier to “cheat” fingering posture on electric’s. On electric my palm was allows kissing the back of the neck which flattened out and took most of the arch out of my fingering. Since I have “seen the light ” and pick almost exclusively acoustically I have been able to develop better guitar fingering patterns. Moved the palm off of the back of the neck, adjusted my thumb position, so that much of my Hand in now above the fret board. More finger arch equals more finger position control.
If we would have all taken classical guitar lessons from a qualified Classical guitar teacher for our first 6 months of learning we would have eliminated a lot of our fingering issues. If i had only known…