FFS! The TRUTH about Thumb Position on Guitar!

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The TRUTH about Thumb Position on Guitar!
Where should I hold my thumb on the guitar? Over the neck or behind the neck?
I reveal the truth about guitar thumb position in this video. Watch this to solve your problems relating to the correct guitar thumb position
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[@BenHigginsOfficial]

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[@freddyleftyou486]

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

[@joehguitar7967]

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.

[@itsscooby2039]

I agree

[@Avidit]

Brilliant play 🎸

[@electricacousticplane]

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

[@actie-reactie]

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....

[@FriedMetroid]

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

[@angelderaphael4849]

Thank you

[@MMAoracle]

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

[@joeyguitarlo]

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

[@beefnacos6258]

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

[@user-rf4vc7mt4d]

Bad advice

[@Nickshreds890]

That is bad advice, and you could hurt your body in the process!
I assure you that as someone who has severe back pain , not from guitar, but please be careful. do some exercises and stretch before you play! 🙏 anyway if they don't care that's thier loss 🤷

[@Goggalor1990]

Why? ​@@user-rf4vc7mt4d

[@Goggalor1990]

​@Nickshreds890 as long as you don't have pain, why does thumb position matter for non-classical guitar? I'm just curious

[@jo83301]

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.

[@Ardianofficial493]

Nice

[@ExiLeZH]

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

[@freddyleftyou486]

Not when u have guitar Instructors demanding thumb be behind neck at all times. No exceptions. But yes, I agree

[@ExiLeZH]

@@freddyleftyou486 A shame if your instructor keeps telling you this while you don't know any better.

[@freddyleftyou486]

@@ExiLeZH thanks man! I'm really enjoying the content you're putting out. Top notch

[@patrickschilcher9386]

Always appreciated your channel and your advice 👍👍

[@2_Slow_4_You]

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

[@jf4433]

Best advices❤️👍 exactly like i would present them🤟

[@andrewbroughton65]

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.

[@nicktreleaven4119]

sorry to hear that. There's an instrument called a harpejji which is kind of like a guitar/keyboard with strings you tap and even bend. I think it is played without thumbs.

[@Nickshreds890]

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

[@BenHigginsOfficial]

🤜🤛🍩🍩

[@devilguidance2735]

This seems simple but I really needed this short vid

[@cdkilo77]

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.

[@LMStemmedBackingTracks]

Thank you so much. Really helped clarify this!

[@BenHigginsOfficial]

👍👍🍩🍩

[@marly1017]

Amazing video

[@rkkameshmusics7178]

how to hold pick please update video ☺️☺️☺️

[@tajulafham94]

Amazing

[@bevo65]

FFS indeed. Go for smoothness, not orthodoxy.

[@johnyoung3397]

THANK YOU!

[@BenHigginsOfficial]

👍👍👍👍

[@landhomer4627]

for bending thumb over for fast stretch licks thumb under

[@Tobiash87]

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

[@merrillcannon2029]

need to put electric necks on acoustic guitars

[@EricLie-rd5pt]

Do you even need to strum the guitar?

[@jametalboy]

Thanks Ben... Another myth busted...

[@julianneedsblood7091]

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.

[@outermarker5801]

Grab the neck, anchor your thumb and bend with multiple fingers locked together

[@julianneedsblood7091]

@@outermarker5801 okay thank you

[@amdinstartor6867]

What does ffs mean

[@fairleighlansing2121]

Like your video. You should research S M Zeus.