Practice technique correctly, and your hand will adjust its position with time. There is no perfect right hand position. For each style you have best hand position. If you play 2-notes/string patterns, you have to adjust hand positon, if you play sweep picking arpeggios, you have to adjust your hand position. If you play patterns on one string, same thing. Patterns on 2 strings? Same thing.
Repeat this pattern, fast, beginning with down-stroke:
E||------3-5-----3-5-|-------||
B||--3-5-----3-5-----|-------||
G||-------------------|-------||
D||-------------------|-------||
A||-------------------|-------||
E||------------------|-------||
Then this, with down-stroke first, fast:
E||----3-5-----3-5---|-------||
B||--5-----3-5-----3-|-------||
G||------------------|-------||
D||------------------|-------||
A||------------------|-------||
E||------------------|-------||
As you play faster each pattern, you'll notice that right hand position change is very noticeable. This is because in the first example, you have inside-picking when you cross strings(upstroke to downstroke). In the second example, you "jump over string"(upstroke to down troke). For each example there is best right hand philospohy.
Technique comes first, hand position second. Don't try to copy some guitarist players, play what is most comfortable for you. Paul Gilbert said that he use to hold his right hand like Marty Friedman for 6 yers, then he changed it to his actual position he uses today. So, you make mistakes, you fix them, it last over years, don't be afraid to experiment, and to make mistakes, I use to keep my pinky on the guitar body while playing, for years, my hand was very tense, so I changed it after 7 years. Watch good alternate-pickers, John Petrucci, John McLaughilin, there is a reason why they hold they right hand like that. Especially during very fast passages! Fingers move to each other, hand is closed(Petrucci, McLaughlin). When you play fast, you want to maintain control, so after few months of correct technique practice, you will begin to notice that your right hand starts to adjust position automatically, unbelievable:)
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