Originally Posted by: pearsonablake

Hi everyone! First post here.[br][br]I'm having troubles matching my right to left hand. On 5 string melodies now which I can fret at a good speed. Problem is my right hand is hitting the wrong strings if I'm not looking down. Any advice for exercises on how to improve this? I guess it's just being new and still learning string placement.

Yes. The simplest answer is to keep on looking down. Not kidding.

In the minds of many guitar players early in their journey, it seems a thing that you must be able to look away from the fretboard. You don't. Specifically, don't say to yourself 'I have to be able to play looking away'. There's no reason to think this. The truth is; the more you build your skill, you'll naturally just do it without thinking about it. Even then, you will have times you look at your guitar anyway. 40 years and I still look at some riffs just because I do.

By thinking you need to look away, you're really only making your progress as a player that much harder.