My probleme is.... the god damn muscle between the thumb and the index.... I don't have a probleme to make a barred chord sound ok or good, but past 30 sec or 1 min of playing barred chords, this muscle is making me suffer like crazy (even if i make minimum pressure on the strings), and i have to let go of the guitar for a moment because it's burning and it's painfull like crazy ! 1 years back into playing the guitar, and i still have this issue. I've tried every position there is with the thumb, arm etc ! Nothing works..... And it does that on the Acoustic AND the electric with 9-42 strings..... I just don't know what to do.....
The first thing I would do is make sure your guitars are set up. If you take them in somewhat regularly, and somebody’s checked them out and said they’re good to go then that’s not the issue. But, a lot of times if you haven’t had your guitar set up in over a year things can start to drift and make it a little painful to play certain things. The next thing I would recommend is trying out some different instruments. Neck shapes and sizes can vary wildly and one of them might be more comfortable for you. I owned a guitar once and the shape of the neck made my left wrist hurt whenever I played a bar with my third or fourth finger. The last thing I would recommend is to try playing the chord without your thumb. Meaning you’re only using your arm weight and pressure down on the Guitar. There is zero squeezing involved if you don’t use your thumb. If that little muscle still hurts without using your thumb, the tension is coming from somewhere else. If it doesn’t, it tells you it’s a pressure issue, a neck shape issue, or something similar. Hope that helps!
@@guitargympro first, thx a lot for your respond ! As far as set up goes, the electric guitar that i have didnt had a set up, but the strings are already pretty lod for me, just might need à restring, cause the original strings aren't very nice to touch ! But my 3 folk guitars had a set up, and 2 have 10-47 strings gauge, and have pretty low action too, and the necks are pretty confortable for me ! I really have no issue making a barred chord sound good, even a Fmin7 on the first fret (even tho this one is pretty brutal for the thumb 🤣🤣) but the muscle between the index and the thumb still hates barred chords somehow.... i just tried to play a A#min barred chord (the on the 1st fret of the 5th string) without the thumb, well i can make it sound ok ! When i try to change chords and put minimal pressure, but enough to make the chord sound, the top of my hand and my arm muscle start to hurt.... i guess my hand dont like barred chords 🤣😭
@@z3rod696 Maybe so, I'll be honest, I usually do my best to avoid barre chords anyway 😆 It's important to know the shapes of them, but playing them is another story :)
Awesome lesson the arm drop makes so much sense.
Glad it was helpful! It was a game changer for me back in the day. Counterintuitive at first - but it does the trick.
Good sensible lesson .... cheers!!
Thank you! Glad it was helpful 😊
Nice job!
Thanks! 😊
It would be better for a clean sound amp than distorted fo hearing the correct sounds
Did he really just play the better call saul theme with finger??!
😅😂
My probleme is.... the god damn muscle between the thumb and the index.... I don't have a probleme to make a barred chord sound ok or good, but past 30 sec or 1 min of playing barred chords, this muscle is making me suffer like crazy (even if i make minimum pressure on the strings), and i have to let go of the guitar for a moment because it's burning and it's painfull like crazy ! 1 years back into playing the guitar, and i still have this issue. I've tried every position there is with the thumb, arm etc ! Nothing works..... And it does that on the Acoustic AND the electric with 9-42 strings..... I just don't know what to do.....
The first thing I would do is make sure your guitars are set up. If you take them in somewhat regularly, and somebody’s checked them out and said they’re good to go then that’s not the issue. But, a lot of times if you haven’t had your guitar set up in over a year things can start to drift and make it a little painful to play certain things.
The next thing I would recommend is trying out some different instruments. Neck shapes and sizes can vary wildly and one of them might be more comfortable for you. I owned a guitar once and the shape of the neck made my left wrist hurt whenever I played a bar with my third or fourth finger.
The last thing I would recommend is to try playing the chord without your thumb. Meaning you’re only using your arm weight and pressure down on the Guitar. There is zero squeezing involved if you don’t use your thumb.
If that little muscle still hurts without using your thumb, the tension is coming from somewhere else.
If it doesn’t, it tells you it’s a pressure issue, a neck shape issue, or something similar.
Hope that helps!
@@guitargympro first, thx a lot for your respond ! As far as set up goes, the electric guitar that i have didnt had a set up, but the strings are already pretty lod for me, just might need à restring, cause the original strings aren't very nice to touch ! But my 3 folk guitars had a set up, and 2 have 10-47 strings gauge, and have pretty low action too, and the necks are pretty confortable for me ! I really have no issue making a barred chord sound good, even a Fmin7 on the first fret (even tho this one is pretty brutal for the thumb 🤣🤣) but the muscle between the index and the thumb still hates barred chords somehow.... i just tried to play a A#min barred chord (the on the 1st fret of the 5th string) without the thumb, well i can make it sound ok ! When i try to change chords and put minimal pressure, but enough to make the chord sound, the top of my hand and my arm muscle start to hurt.... i guess my hand dont like barred chords 🤣😭
@@z3rod696 Maybe so, I'll be honest, I usually do my best to avoid barre chords anyway 😆 It's important to know the shapes of them, but playing them is another story :)