THE PINKY:
It should be CLOSE. People invariably still have problems with left hand pinky height until they tackle them.
In short, always keep your pinky less than an inch from the neck . Not only that, keep it directly over the fret for which it is
responsible.
If this is a challenge, treat the pseudo-chromatic exercise
in the following manner:
While you ASCEND, keep your pinky FRETTING the string that you just
finished playing. Don't pick it, just keep it there.
like this...
E|------------------------------------------1-2-3-4-------------|
B|---------------------------------1-2-3-4--4-4-4---------------|
G|-------------------------1-2-3-4-4-4-4------------------------|
D|-----------------1-2-3-4-4-4-4--------------------------------|
A|---------1-2-3-4-4-4-4----------------------------------------|
E|-1-2-3-4-4-4-4------------------------------------------------|
While you DESCEND, place your pinky on the next string AS SOON AS
IT IS DONE WITH THE CURRENT STRING.
E|--5-4-3-2------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----5-5-5--5-4-3-2---------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------5-5-5--5-4-3-2------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------5-5-5--5-4-3-2---------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------5-5-5--5-4-3-2------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------5-5-5--5-4-3-2---------------|
Really, all of your fingers should be less than an inch from the neck,
but if you concentrate on your pinky, that should take care of them all.
Benefits:
It places less of a burden on your pinky when your palm is parallel
to the neck. It also makes it easier to keep your pinky close to the
strings.
If there is less of a distance for your pinky to travel to fret a note,
then you can ultimately achieve higher speed because of the travel time.
Not only that, it is easier to coordinate your picking with your left
hand because there is less margin for error.
-- if the tabs don't show up well copy and paste it in wordpad and choose some mono spaced font such as courier. For the first TAB (ascending); every second 4 is below the 1
For the second TAB (descending); every 5 begins under every 4.
Hope that helps
[Edited by munqy on 08-01-2003 at 01:59 AM]
real tyte bro \m/
