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Re: [Worship] Guitar Chords
#1 · July 9, 2008, 10:02 pm
Posted by: srolfe <srolfe@...>
My dad The Guitar Teacher always encouraged his students to experiment with as many fingerings as possible, and use whatever worked in a given situation.
He felt that the goal was always economy of movement, so the player's choice should be influenced by the chords immediately before and afterward. For example, playing a G major in the first position with your pinkie on the bass string makes sense if you just got there from a C major, but would be kind of dumb you were just coming off a D major, and it meant turning your whole hand around...
He was more concerned about the mechanics of the hand (wrist relatively straight, open, rounded, relaxed hand position, etc.) than about a theoretical "best fingering" for a given chord.
I tried to learn to
play the F# with my index like I was told was
correct but that fingering was awkward and never worked with the chords
leading or following it. Like Mike I use my thumb all the time to mute
strings. Not meant as a jab at the bass players on this list but until
recently the bass players I know just stopped playing when they got to a
slash chord on the lead sheet - or worse played both parts one after the
other. Interesting sound, kind of like a train wreck.
tritones@cox.net wrote:
> Thumb it is. I tend to play sloppy anyway, and when I'm hitting the strings pretty hard, I usually dampen the low E with my thumb. So, gripping it for the F# is not too hard.
>
> I figure if Paul Baloche says it's OK to use your thumb on D/F#, then that's good enough for me.
>
> Mike B.
>
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