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Thank you for this. At odds with instructors who insist thumb must behind neck at all times. Great clarification

This is how I feel about most techniques. As long as you aren't doing physical damage to your body, you should just do whatever works best for you.

looking at the neck from behind gives it a really good perspective to this question… good job!

Thanks....I am an absolute beginner with guitar playing....but my thumb moved by nature a bit more like yours.... and not like everyone is telling....

I think what I teach is kind of a hybrid between what you just said, and a stricter classical guitar approach. I teach my students that the thumb should generally track with the middle finger As you move around the neck. This results in a quite mobile thumb position though with it generally staying more behind the neck. When they're more advanced and learning certain techniques like bending, I start telling them that some over the fretboard works better in certain contexts and they have to use their intuition as to what feels right for a given passage

Ugh that used to piss me off. Theres no rhyme or reason for a stock thumb position. Put the shit where its comfortable for the lick you're playing.

Also, thumb over is great for playing licks while playing chords. Like hendrix/mayer etc etc

Just play the damn thing if it sounds good it sounds good

Shouldn’t have to think about it at all! Should go naturally depending on what you’re playing.

Classically trained people are taught not to break the rules, as if there was a police officer, waiting to a rest of them if they did something outside of what they were taught

Brilliant this helped me a lot ! I thought that because i play headless that i needed to use classical technique. Thank you Ben! I also think a lot of people forget to move the thumb. That helps me a lot too

Thank you so much. Really helped clarify this!

Travis pickers often fret notes with it & many players fret the F# with it on the Low E string when they play a D chord.I never realized how important the thumb actually was until mine developed arthritis & eventually ended my playing career.

Always appreciated your channel and your advice 👍👍

Brilliant play 🎸

Best advices❤️👍 exactly like i would present them🤟

THANK YOU!

Thank you

Nice

This seems simple but I really needed this short vid

Amazing video

I've been practicing legato with my thumb behind the neck, which feels so foreign to me because I'm self taught and played the other way for over 20 years. I can definitely feel soreness which leads me to wonder if I'm just working out unused muscles or if I'm doing something wrong and causing more harm than good.

Amazing

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Nah, who else straight up plays bar chords with their thumbs it can't just be me 😭

for bending thumb over for fast stretch licks thumb under

This is only applicable with thin strings. Thumb does a best job for me staying on the level with a middle finger.

FFS indeed. Go for smoothness, not orthodoxy.

What about when your bending the chord to give it a twang? My guutar wont let the twang come out as much if I dont put a good amount of pressure.

Do you even need to strum the guitar?

need to put electric necks on acoustic guitars

What does ffs mean

Thanks Ben... Another myth busted...

Like your video. You should research S M Zeus.