The Casual Method:There are several ways that you can hold the guitar, but we will just cover the most common one in this lesson. The casual method of holding the guitar is when you simply place the guitar on your right leg, if you are right handed, and pull it in close to your bo...
or the top horizontal line, represents the nut of the guitar, and the vertical lines represent the guitar strings. The horizontal lines represent the frets. In the diagram, you will see small circles or dots that represent where you need to place your fretting hand fingers to...
When you start learning to play guitar or bass, you’ll quickly discover that there are useful ways to sound notes other than just plucking them. Two of the most useful ways are those dexterous twins of fingering technique, the hammer-on and the pull-off. Hammer-ons and pull-offs compleme...
Using your “fretting” hand (the hand you use to hold down chords on the fret) to pick one note (string) anywhere from the third to the fifth fret of your guitar. This is a section of the guitar’s neck where chords are commonly played and the strings aren’t strained because of t...
In more advanced tabs, you might encounter left-hand (fretting hand) and right-hand (picking hand) fingerings. These indicate which fingers to use on the fretboard and picking pattern details. Now that we’ve explored these common notation conventions in guitar tabs, let’s discuss why they ...
pressed straight into the fretboard. You do not have to worry about driving the frets out sideways. Also, modern Fender guitars usually use glue to hold their frets in place, so you will have to heat up the glue. Here are the steps to removing the frets on a modern Fender guitar. ...
Playing a right-handed guitar One way to approach guitar playing as a lefty is to just play like other right-handed guitarists. This means using your left hand as the fretting hand and your right hand as the picking hand. In this case, your dominant hand (your left hand, that is) won...
Hold the guitar so that the thickest string (the low E string) is closest to you when looking down. The hand holding the guitar neck is known as the fretting hand. The other hand, in this case the right hand, is called the picking hand or the strumming hand. Left-handed guitarists ...
By fretting the guitar at any position with your left hand, you can produce an octave harmonic by touching the string exactly 12 frets above with your right. Tommy Emmanuel's unique harp harmonics technique. The trick is to hold your pick with your thumb and ring finger in your right hand...
Does Guitar Elbow / Tennis Elbow Occur On The Strumming Hand Or The Fretting Hand Side? Tennis Elbow very often occurs in the guitar fretting hand Guitar players seem to develop Tennis Elbow (OR Golfer’s Elbow) in their fretting hands a lot more often than they experience these injuries in...