How Much Is You Pinky Supposed To Be Off The Fret Board |
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Jun 28 2007, 01:48 AM
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QUOTE (Resurrection @ Jun 27 2007, 04:57 PM)  This is a fairly common issue - you're definitely not alone on this one! As fkalich has mentioned, the usual causes are muscular tension and a lack of independence in the movements of the individual fingers. This results in one finger (often the pinky) being dragged to an unwanted position by the movements of other fingers. I actually have a weird variation of this problem, where playing patterns involving fingers 1, 3 and 4 makes my middle finger want to pull away from the fretboard. It's something I have to keep working on! Maybe I have an unconscious desire to give a one-finger salute to anyone watching me play  IMO playing slowly, in itself, won't solve the problem. I've found that concentrating on maintaining good left hand thumb position and applying no more than the minimum required pressure on the strings helps keep the tension in my left hand down. This reduction in tension means that the non-fretting fingers don't pull away so readily. If playing more slowly helps you achieve this then great, but playing slowly whilst maintaining excessive tension probably won't help much. Good alternate picking exercise will help too, by encouraging proper use of all the fingers and increasing the independence of the finger movements. Hope this helps. It's certainly an approach that I've used with some success. i pretty much concur, based on working on this, improvement has occurred for me, in similar fashion, with similar observations. i read this book long ago on this topic in a general sense. i still practice it, if i can't sleep you just put myself in a state of relaxation, and pretty quick i doze off. it is really very similar to yoga i think, only from a more western pov (scientific rather than mystical) http://www.amazon.com/You-Must-Relax-Edmun...9440&sr=8-1 many people are not aware of how much they keep the muscles in their body in a state of pretty constant tension. one can learn to relax that, but it takes determination. in this case, we are trying to relax the superfluous tension in the hand. it seems to me that you get faster when you do that. at least i have noticed that in myself. This post has been edited by fkalich: Jun 28 2007, 02:14 AM |
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Jun 28 2007, 07:38 AM
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Thanks i only really tried for about about 5 minute to keep the pinky close to the fret board
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Jul 5 2007, 01:19 PM
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QUOTE (JOhn @ Jun 27 2007, 10:39 AM) When ever i play with my pinky even at very very slow speeds it will always come of about an inch give or take. No matter how hard i try to keep it down unless i tension my left hand heaps so it can barely move. because of this im starting to believe its normal but im not totally sure. so is it normal? But if not how would i work on it other then going extremely slow because iv already tried that. yeah my pink has the same problem, after i play a note with my pinky, it just goes a few inches away from the fret board later. I then decided to practice pavels legato lesson etude and it helped!!! -------------------- __________________________
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