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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 03/05/00
Posts: 4,722
Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 03/05/00
Posts: 4,722
04/26/2007 10:34 pm
Basically yeah... try to get it so that your right hand is perpendicular to the fretboard. If I'm sitting down, I usually shift the guitar over to my right leg so I can get directly over the fretboard.