IT'S NOT YOUR HANDS...IT'S YOUR TECHNIQUE!
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- We've all done it; blamed our hands and fingers when we can't hold a particular chord down. Thing is, most of the time it's got nothing to do with our hands - it's all about technique! Watch this short vid, it should help fix that 'dodgy hands' syndrome.
Thanks for this. I am a beginner and kept thinking that my small handswere the problem. I love your channel and am filling in the blanks and making fun progress with the masterclasses
Thanks Rob. I enjoy your channel. I’m an old drummer that started learning guitar after I retired a few years ago. Keeps my hands and mind active. Thanks for your lessons!
something to focus on after that abysmal football tonight
One of your best videos! Straight to the point, no excuses! Thank you, I feel motivated!
The guy with the hook you mentioned is in a band called the Peace Pirates. As you say Rob, worth checking out!
Thanks
Thanks Rob for the classical guitar tips. Look forward to additional classical pieces
Love your classical guitar, yes my fingers a stiff, from age. Hard work, farm hands larger today than yesterday. Wedding ring tells me plenty, HA, want cut my ring for sentimental reasons , 70's 80's The best music ever written ❤😊
Thanks for all your music knowledge,great teacher,one of the best on line,ty again sir,would love to see some Santana music
I am 75 and I have chronic osteoarthritis in both hands, which has greatly impacted my ability to play chords. I have played guitar for forty years and with the onset of arthritis I elected to learn to play slide guitar. This has allowed me to continue to enjoy playing guitar, while not being able to perform all the playing styles that I used to enjoy playing.
unfortunately, you are right! Ugh. Its mental intensity to be in correct form, not just looking for results, but, reenforcing the correct feelings and positions. The end of my fingers have a bulge of flesh that make some chords muted, but I am getting around that with deep concentration on my finger instertion angle. Keep on keeping on is the way to go
Thanks mate. I'm one of your new subscribers and I'm really enjoying your content
Thank you. My challenge is memorizing it all. I tend to repeat about two measures at a time, then try to go back from beginning to what I thought I had memorized. Reading music or using tab might help but your bluenote fingering sheet really helps get it going!
The best piece of advice I ever got from a guitar teacher when having trouble with bar chords was " it's not pressure it's placement" I'm still crap at bar chords but I don't fear them.
It's neither my hands nor my technique....It's my complete lack of any discernible talent...
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Hi Rob,
Great video.
PS Perhaps you might consider Riverman by Nick Drake for a future lesson.
Great tips. Thanks Rob!
Thankyou Rob --I have successfully d/loaded Your APACHE hand written TAB ----appreciate ( I am 75 )
Thank you.
While I don't disagree with your point at all Rob,the reason these 'wonderkids' can play some of those chords is due,in lots of cases, to youngsters having more cartilage than bone in their hands and feet( although feet usually have little to do with playing the guitar!) until their late teens and beyond. There is obvious great talent of course but also a physiological side to it too. Us oldies will not be able to do some of the same stretches due to physiology,in part,but there are always ways around it even then. This is why in our beloved football (Soccer to North Americans) that youngsters should stop copying wearing those ridiculously short shinpads that professionals wear as their joints are still maturing and bones are not yet fully formed. This is not me making excuses but more of a lesson for those of us who get that inferiority complex when we see those fantastic players at such a young age and want to burn our guitars! :) Don't fret (no pun intended) and be as good as you can be yourselves and not some Chinese 8 year old on UA-cam people.
Is it Fiona Boyd's version of Gymnopedie (#1 I assume). I play that one. I had a little trouble with the parts that were up on the 9th 12th fret and above. But I think I've overcome that now. Anyway it is a beautiful piece.
Name of device you showed to hold the guitar. Thanks.
Angus Young from AC/DC tends to hold his Gibson SG quite high, opposed to the people who like to have their guitar swinging around their hips 😂 it might look cool, but it’s not very practical to have a guitar hanging that low so it’s probably better to play the way that George Harrison and Angus do.
I must be an Alien lol, try as I may I'm just not getting the chords right
Have a look at my Masterclass 1. 👍🏻
Excellent as always. The technique question I had is how you do the finger roll on some of those Gymnopédie chords. My fingers don’t want to move so quickly one after the other so I just have to pluck them all at the same time 😩
Don’t worry about the finger roll. I do it too much and it’s not really supposed to happen. 😬
@@fennahrob6934I still wish i could do it though! 😂
How about with somebody with big /fat hands?
Diet?
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Hi Rob, is there a time limit on your tabs, I have just tried to download in my life and it states download pending?
Should work fine Mark. Try opening in Safari.,👍🏻
Hi Rob, sorry to sound a bit thick, but is Safari some sort of app?@@fennahrob6934
Is your classical expensive,what make is it
Take a look at Segovia's fingers, they look like pork sausages! and he could play a bit.
Curious, is that an Italian made EKO 12-string in the background? Pickguard looks very familiar.
I’m not sure. My uncle brought it back from Spain about 50 years ago. It was black back then and had no label inside.
Thanks Rob,rely enjoy you’re channel,am 76 ,and have bad arthritis,so bar chords are out,very frustrating,as I play in a Rock Orchestra Group,the thing that I find that helps a lot,is to wear a guitar strap,helps pull the guitar towards you,and I find it gives me more strength,to play
Thanks again for all you do,Michael
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Best stuff on tube Ta.😂
Gosh i wish you were my guitar teacher here in Australia 🙁
I teach people online from Australia. 👍🏻😎
Thanks!
Dear Rob, Please do "Thank you " by Hall and Oates from their 70's album "Whole Oates". Its a lovely mellow finger picking tune. I know to everyone out there, it will seem obscure, but have a listen and see what you think. I have wanted to be able to play this for years, but unfortunately, I'm quite thick when it comes to transcribing from recordings. Cheers.
People underestimate the effort endurance it takes to play guitar. And classic rock songs is like sleeping they certainly don’t require stretch. Alan holdsworth maybe. The new modern guitarist are hard, try learning any polyphia song for challenge. The eighties elite shredders struggle with new styles. Guys like slosh Guns N’ Roses are intermediate level. The average guy who puts in time can play slashes entire discography. Polyphia takes more than just practice,
Well Thanks for your tips here! Holding the guitar higher makes a huge difference for me, as my elbow is still cranky from fracture /dislocation a year ago. Very useful to employ the opposing pressure on the body as well.🙃
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Another great video, Rob! Question: how do you go about memorizing a long instrumental piece of music?
Play it over and over until you’re sick of it. It’s the only way to memorise music.
@@fennahrob6934 Hahaha That's what I thought you'd say. 😁 Keep up the good work. I subscribed and continue to watch!