Hi all,

I teach the "parallel angle" in the Spider Legs exercise in part becasue it is just a great alignment and stretch challenge for your fingers as they develop their skills on the guitar.

It does not mean that your fingers must always be parallel to the frets in other contexts. You will always be shifting them a bit this way and that to accomodate the song you are working on.

But in the exercise - it is intended to train your left hand in what will eventually be tha ablity to reach longer stretches between notes on the neck.

It's all good.