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I now have a muting problem that I didn’t know I had!
Thanks to “Sir Paul”, the challenge and not the Beatle I now have to amend how I form my chords. Once I lift the middle finger in the C and G chords, the A or D string rises to touch the ring finger. My chord is clean when pushing those strings down but not if I lift the middle finger. F and Am chords are fine! The only way I can play this is by lifting both the middle and ring fingers, which is ok since I’m transitioning to a new chord and the double-stop/hammer/double-stop doesn’t involve the string above anyhow.
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Same, although I find that I can get clean sounds by following my own advice and releasing a bit of pressure from my ring finger on the G and C chords. I think I get a little lazy with those chords since I’ve been able to quickly fret them for a long time and haven’t really had to relearn them in a technically improved way ( closer to the fret wire, less pressure, pay attention to thumb position, etc.). But lifting the ring finger along with the middle seems acceptable to my way of thinking for the reason you stated….we’re moving it anyway.
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That is exactly what I do, though I do it on all of the chords in that song. It slows me way down, but if I played it that way enough I’d get better at it. I have always had trouble muting the D string on the C chord, and the F, well…
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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…
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