Hello there,
I've been playing the guitar for something about 6 months now and never hired a teacher, so I realize I can take bad habits. And I am afraid it is what I just did with my hand position while picking. To explain what might be a problem, here is a little schematic :
What most guitarists do:
|----\-------
|-----\------ ... [Neck]
|------\-----
What I do:
|------/-----
|-----/------ ... [Neck]
|----/-------
The '-' represent the strings and the '\' or '/' the pick. The above schematic illustrates the (exagerated) orientation of the pick I see on every picture or video of a guitarist. The image below illustrates "my" way of picking. When I first grabbed the guitar, I felt this was the most natural position and therefore adopted it. This is related to the position of my hand, which is located pretty low. It might be interresting to know that I also hold my pen in a silly way while writing, with a similar crooked wrist position.
This way, I feel comfortable, but I am afraid this is a bad habit and that one day I may regret it. Actually, I find it much harder this way to mute upper strings and to play pinched harmonics. There seems to be a lot of great guitar teachers here, so here is my question : Is it a common "problem"? Should I spend a couple of weeks/months trying to fix this or is it OK?
Thanks a lot!
(please excuse my poor English, I'm still learning)
Oh, and congratulations for the site, I only watched a few video lessons for now but those were great!
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