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blankstare77
10-06-2007, 02:48 PM
Where on the finger is one supposed to play for superb left-hand technique?

I hear "fingertip", but I am unsure of WHICH fingertip.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b29/blankstare77/untitled.jpg

JimmyM
10-06-2007, 02:52 PM
Split the difference and go in the middle. Too close to the tip and you do the bass-string-under-the-fingernails torture. Too far away and you end up flattening out your finger and not getting enough arc.

El-Bob
10-06-2007, 03:25 PM
Split the difference and go in the middle. Too close to the tip and you do the bass-string-under-the-fingernails torture. Too far away and you end up flattening out your finger and not getting enough arc.

+1

Mechanical Mind
10-06-2007, 03:32 PM
I agree with the other two, but what I really like is that the diagram has hair.