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Post by vikingblues on Mar 28, 2023 8:56:21 GMT
Funny how a question like this comes up and I realise I've not been paying attention to what I do and don't know! One quick check later and I find myself in the floater camp - goes along with the floaters in my vision? Does seem that sometimes my right hand ring finger comes down and gently touches the 1st string if I'm mainly playing notes on lower strings - but not so much an anchor as a place it naturally goes to with what the rest of my hand and fingers are doing. I suspect the photos and diagrams of whatever how to play book I started with all those decades ago learning guitar didn't show an anchor method and it stuck. I think I remember trying the anchor method for something and it resulted in a mess playing wise. Mark
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Post by ianlp59 on Apr 20, 2023 17:11:43 GMT
I've always been a "floater". Anchoring can restrict movement and introduce tension, as has already been mentioned. Also, anchoring makes moving your right hand either closer to or further from the bridge in order to introduce tonal differences more challenging.
Cheers,
Ian
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Post by jonte on Apr 29, 2023 8:34:25 GMT
I'm definately a floater, anchoring(or trying to) really does limit the movement in my fingers. I've spent the last few months transitioning from playing with 3 fingers to 2 with a thumb pick and 2 fingerpicks. Hard work but worth it. I always found that '3rd finger' was too weak on the high E string for some of the blues/ragtime type stuff I like to play. Shake That Thing by Mississippi John Hurt being a good example.
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Post by Derick on Apr 29, 2023 22:22:53 GMT
For years was an anchoring, because that's what the experts said you should do, only to find it was uncomfortable and gave me cramp/dead little finger, so changed to a floater find in more natural and more fun to play the guitar.
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Post by Gregg Hermetech on May 6, 2023 7:34:31 GMT
I started anchoring when I was first learning fingerpicking a few years ago, and it helped get the fundamentals down, but after about 18 months I stopped, and while it was tricky for a bit, I eventually never looked back. I find it much more freeing and get way less hand strain not anchoring.
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Post by frankieabbott on Oct 15, 2023 10:27:11 GMT
I'm a floater. I've tried to anchor the pinkie but it just seems to feel like it hampers the movement of my other picking fingers. Plus the fact that I can use the pinkie to play the top e or maybe b strings when I realise that the finger that should be playing them has either been bunged onto another string or has decided to go on strike. 😮😀
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Post by NikGnashers on Oct 16, 2023 19:32:12 GMT
I am (as many people will testify), a proper anchor. The pinky stays put at all times, my thumb hooks over to press the thick E, and I don't hold the guitar correctly either. I don't see me ever being a profeshnull so I'm not worried !
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Post by delb0y on Oct 17, 2023 6:49:56 GMT
...my thumb hooks over to press the thick E... The right and proper way to play a guitar!
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