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Topic: Finger Pickin' |
Blake Orsinelli
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Apple Valley, California, USA
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Posted 26 Aug 2020 9:46 am |
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Good Evening Gents,
This is my first post here, been playing for about 3 months now and have been focusing on learning my Nashville number system and how it relates coming from guitar. Well now that I'm fairly confident to dip my fingers into single string picking. Here's my problem I'm noticing my fingernails are pressing up against the next string as I move up. Any suggestions? Do I need to get a longer pick? Bend them differently? Hold my hand up higher? Any help would be much appreciated.
And while I'm here I'll also ask, since I'm stationed overseas in Spain theirs not a whole lot of steel players. would anyone be willing to take me under their wing? Just thought I'd ask "squeaky wheel gets the grease" right?  |
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 26 Aug 2020 10:58 am
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The fingernail resting against an adjacent string is not necessarily a mistake. It is a valid blocking/muting technique. If you want to change the finger’s position, you just have to lift it high enough for the pick blade to clear the strings.
Sounds like you could use some pick hand instruction. There are a number of teachers on the forum who do Skype lessons. Just post another message with your request for lessons in the topic itself, if you don’t hear from anyone in this thread. Or do a search for Jeff Newman, Paul Franklin, or Joe Wright videos on the subject of right hand technique. |
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Blake Orsinelli
From:
Apple Valley, California, USA
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Posted 27 Aug 2020 2:21 am
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| Awesome thank you! |
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