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donf
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donf
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09/18/2006 7:15 pm
Though I've been playing for 10+ years, I still have a problem with the right hand. I can be very sloppy and sometimes. I feel lost in relation to the strings. Some people I talk to brush their pinky along the pickguard. Others have their pinky gripping Underneath the high E string, others have the palm resting on the bridge and some have it above the strings, not touching anything at all. I've tried all the different styles, but i can't seem to be confident that I'm going to hit the correct string when I go into a solo.

I've been practicing slow, using a metronome, watching my right hand, holding the pick, go thru the string til it ends up halfway between the string I just hit and the next one below it. Trying to get the most efficiency from it. When I try a little faster, inevitably I'll hit an errant string.

It's little frustrating, but I'll keep working on it. But I've also been doing it a while now.

Any other suggestion for me to try. :cool:
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