For a detailed list with resources and links: lindsaystraw.com/blog/2024/5/8/right-hand-review Timestamps: 00:47 - Nail Care 03:08 - Hand and wrist position 04:06 - Pinky anchoring 06:27 - Placement over soundhole 07:26 - Influences 08:23 - Four finger playing vs. three 09:58 - Non-expert thoughts on thumbpick use and hybrid picking 11:38 - Classical - Giuliani exercises 13:54 - Carcassi etudes 15:11 - Brouwer etudes 15:57 - Favorite picking patterns 16:10 - Classical notation info and thoughts on right hand practice 17:20 - Rolling Arpeggios 25:00 - Go-To Travis Picking Patterns 32:10 - Rolling Arpeggio Hybrid Pattern
Thanks Lindsay for sharing your experience with great comments and demo's....I am 81yrs old & currently play Travis patterns as I struggle with arthritis in my left hand..I have to compromise fingerings on some chords ...I no longer can use barr chords because the shape of my fingers now so changers had to be made...I have no problem on the piano... thanks again for sharing.... cheers from Australia 🦘🦘😀
This is great Lindsay! Thank you. I have played for 30 years and I've always said one with a classical background with guitar makes a fine fingerstylist player. timing,tone everything. 🙂 Im working on some of this again.
Wonderful video, Lindsay! I don’t anchor either and thought that maybe I should try to learn, but you convinced me not to bother. BTW… I just purchased the pdf of your arrangement of The Parting Glass and can’t wait to dig in!
Great video, in so many ways. I love that your entire approach is so laid back, and you don't use any particular techniques for nail care. Nails can be a real pain - I've lost count of how many 'diva dramas' I've had breaking a nail in the days running up to a gig 🫣🤣 You show how you can produce beautiful tone with actually quite short nails - I'm going to get the file out!
I feel very lucky right now! Breaking a nail is SUCH a bummer. I feel like I should start experimenting now to get ahead of it but it's hard to want to mess with a good thing!
@LindsayStraw I have 2 gigs over this weekend, on The Wirral, and Liverpool, England. I broke my middle finger nail clean off on Tuesday and I'm mainly a fingerstyle player, so my tone is pretty clunky right now. Busily filing the others down to match!
@LindsayStraw thanks Lindsay - and I filed the others down like yours and got away with it, so thank you! Liverpool tomorrow night (well tonight!) so fingers crossed!
I guess my right hand technique kinda started very formally with my dad teaching me a 4 finger strategy on nylon string and then I took up playing a crappy version of Scruggs style banjo and went back to guitar… Now my three finger guitar playing is my main lifting. I do use Fred Kelly picks for my thumb and if I have a lot of sessions of gigs I have acrylics done up but it’s a drag! I really don’t “think” about my right hand as much as maybe I should now? I guess if I’m not getting the tone I wanted or if I’m struggling to play cleanly I’ll look at why that is… I love this video and I can tell it was hard work!
Thanks! You've got a well-established style, so it's good you don't find yourself fussed with it! I didn't think about it much before either but questions kept coming up in lessons, plus I started finding things I wanted to do but couldn't pull off easily, so it's been a much revisited topic as of late.
Brilliant video. Must admit to a certain amount of flashbacks during the Giuliani section (I was a Classical Guitar first study in music college) but they are wonderful exercises.
@@LindsayStraw Truth. 😃 That being said, they do the job brilliantly. I also used to recommend Part 2 of Giuliani's Opus 1 to my students. Running them on a cycle of 30 exercises from Part 1 (repeated) and four exercises from Part 2 every day on a rolling schedule. Balances the hands wonderfully.
@@LindsayStraw There is a pretty decent copy here (on IMSLP). Only real difference from modern editions is that it uses "dot" fingerings for the right hand (one dot for i, two for m and three for a with an arrow for p) along with a couple of left hand fingerings in Part 2 where an asterisk is used to indicate where Giuliani would use the thumb over technique on the narrower neck of the 19th centuury guitar (good for modern steel string players). imslp.org/wiki/Studio_per_la_chitarra%2C_Op.1_(Giuliani%2C_Mauro)
Excellent. Makes me feel a bit underaccomplished because I learned Travis style first, so using the other fingers so much, can be awkward, oddly. But it really changes the dynamic in such a pleasant way.
I am an intermediate ukulele player and am beginning to play guitar. Since ukulele strings are mostly nylon, do you feel I might like nylon on a Baby Taylor guitar? Thanks so much!
Up to you! You could certainly try it (looks like there are a couple of options for ball end nylon strings out there) but given the size and scale it might be very floppy. If you're serious about guitar, I think it's better to either go for a standard size nylon, or steel strings on the Baby to get yourself used to it.
For a detailed list with resources and links:
lindsaystraw.com/blog/2024/5/8/right-hand-review
Timestamps:
00:47 - Nail Care
03:08 - Hand and wrist position
04:06 - Pinky anchoring
06:27 - Placement over soundhole
07:26 - Influences
08:23 - Four finger playing vs. three
09:58 - Non-expert thoughts on thumbpick use and hybrid picking
11:38 - Classical - Giuliani exercises
13:54 - Carcassi etudes
15:11 - Brouwer etudes
15:57 - Favorite picking patterns
16:10 - Classical notation info and thoughts on right hand practice
17:20 - Rolling Arpeggios
25:00 - Go-To Travis Picking Patterns
32:10 - Rolling Arpeggio Hybrid Pattern
Omg! This video is a gold mine! Thank you for all of those wonderful tabs. That must have taken so much time. Thank you x 10K. ❤❤❤
I'm especially interested in finger independence. More, please!
This is absolute gold!! Definitely a must watch for any fingerstyle player! Thank you
Thanks Lindsay for sharing your experience with great comments and demo's....I am 81yrs old & currently play Travis patterns as I struggle with arthritis in my left hand..I have to compromise fingerings on some chords ...I no longer can use barr chords because the shape of my fingers now so changers had to be made...I have no problem on the piano... thanks again for sharing.... cheers from Australia 🦘🦘😀
I'm not huge on using barre chords in general, either...luckily there are lots of workarounds! Glad you enjoyed this 😀
This is great Lindsay! Thank you. I have played for 30 years and I've always said one with a classical background with guitar makes a fine fingerstylist player. timing,tone everything. 🙂 Im working on some of this again.
Thank you, Lindsay. Loved every minute of this.
Thanks Lindsay👍
My pleasure!
Thank you again. This is very helpful!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful video, Lindsay! I don’t anchor either and thought that maybe I should try to learn, but you convinced me not to bother. BTW… I just purchased the pdf of your arrangement of The Parting Glass and can’t wait to dig in!
Yes, stay in the free floating club! 😅 Thanks so much, I hope you enjoy playing it!
Thanks Lindsay, for me, this was a terrific refresher and some great resources!
Glad to hear it!
Great video, in so many ways. I love that your entire approach is so laid back, and you don't use any particular techniques for nail care. Nails can be a real pain - I've lost count of how many 'diva dramas' I've had breaking a nail in the days running up to a gig 🫣🤣
You show how you can produce beautiful tone with actually quite short nails - I'm going to get the file out!
I feel very lucky right now! Breaking a nail is SUCH a bummer. I feel like I should start experimenting now to get ahead of it but it's hard to want to mess with a good thing!
@LindsayStraw I have 2 gigs over this weekend, on The Wirral, and Liverpool, England. I broke my middle finger nail clean off on Tuesday and I'm mainly a fingerstyle player, so my tone is pretty clunky right now. Busily filing the others down to match!
@@MarkRobinsonMusic Oof, hope they grow back swiftly! That's a tough one to lose!
@LindsayStraw thanks Lindsay - and I filed the others down like yours and got away with it, so thank you! Liverpool tomorrow night (well tonight!) so fingers crossed!
I'm 100 per cent with you on the pinky anchoring Lindsey! Great vid!
Thanks so much!
I guess my right hand technique kinda started very formally with my dad teaching me a 4 finger strategy on nylon string and then I took up playing a crappy version of Scruggs style banjo and went back to guitar… Now my three finger guitar playing is my main lifting. I do use Fred Kelly picks for my thumb and if I have a lot of sessions of gigs I have acrylics done up but it’s a drag! I really don’t “think” about my right hand as much as maybe I should now? I guess if I’m not getting the tone I wanted or if I’m struggling to play cleanly I’ll look at why that is… I love this video and I can tell it was hard work!
Thanks! You've got a well-established style, so it's good you don't find yourself fussed with it! I didn't think about it much before either but questions kept coming up in lessons, plus I started finding things I wanted to do but couldn't pull off easily, so it's been a much revisited topic as of late.
Brilliant video. Must admit to a certain amount of flashbacks during the Giuliani section (I was a Classical Guitar first study in music college) but they are wonderful exercises.
Funny how school can "ruin" good things a little bit sometimes! 😅
@@LindsayStraw Truth. 😃 That being said, they do the job brilliantly. I also used to recommend Part 2 of Giuliani's Opus 1 to my students. Running them on a cycle of 30 exercises from Part 1 (repeated) and four exercises from Part 2 every day on a rolling schedule. Balances the hands wonderfully.
@@MrMattMolloy Ooh, I need to check that out!
@@LindsayStraw There is a pretty decent copy here (on IMSLP). Only real difference from modern editions is that it uses "dot" fingerings for the right hand (one dot for i, two for m and three for a with an arrow for p) along with a couple of left hand fingerings in Part 2 where an asterisk is used to indicate where Giuliani would use the thumb over technique on the narrower neck of the 19th centuury guitar (good for modern steel string players).
imslp.org/wiki/Studio_per_la_chitarra%2C_Op.1_(Giuliani%2C_Mauro)
Awesome
Excellent. Makes me feel a bit underaccomplished because I learned Travis style first, so using the other fingers so much, can be awkward, oddly. But it really changes the dynamic in such a pleasant way.
Nothing wrong with that! I kinda wish I had *properly* learned that first, too.
Great video! Lots to digest. Thanks for sharing 😃 (P.S. is that a species of parakeet or parrot? They look very jolly indeed 🦜)
She's a lovebird! Very sweet, if a bit loud!
@@LindsayStraw My local area is inundated with Ring-Necked Parakeets, and boy do they make a racket! I'm sure she's far more refined and well-behaved.
I am an intermediate ukulele player and am beginning to play guitar. Since ukulele strings are mostly nylon, do you feel I might like nylon on a Baby Taylor guitar? Thanks so much!
Up to you! You could certainly try it (looks like there are a couple of options for ball end nylon strings out there) but given the size and scale it might be very floppy. If you're serious about guitar, I think it's better to either go for a standard size nylon, or steel strings on the Baby to get yourself used to it.
Alrighty. That makes sense! Thanks for your help!