This may seem surface level - like "I play my Les Paul for rock and jazz, my Jackson for metal, my Strat for blues". But I'm hoping to get some deeper thoughts about how you all physically hold and interact with different guitars. I'll give examples.
1) I did 20 years on a Fender Strat. Mostly held the neck in my palm. Attacked the strings pretty ferociously, and gripped the fretboard pretty hard. We fought each other and I played loose & free.
2) On my PRS SE Custom, I also hold the in my palm, but my attack is much softer and my fretting hand is much softer. I can fight it, or caress it, and I easily get a lot of nuance out of it. It's a natural feeling after 20 years on a Strat, just more of the good stuff and less of the bad.
3) On my Gibson SG, the neck is quite wide so I can't hold in my palm. I do thumb on the back instead. Picking is tight and precise, and the picking plus the thumb-on-back hand position plus the massive sound means I approach this guitar clinically, precisely, intentionally.
This resonate with anybody? Or just another academic exercise in over-thinking about guitar technique?
1) I did 20 years on a Fender Strat. Mostly held the neck in my palm. Attacked the strings pretty ferociously, and gripped the fretboard pretty hard. We fought each other and I played loose & free.
2) On my PRS SE Custom, I also hold the in my palm, but my attack is much softer and my fretting hand is much softer. I can fight it, or caress it, and I easily get a lot of nuance out of it. It's a natural feeling after 20 years on a Strat, just more of the good stuff and less of the bad.
3) On my Gibson SG, the neck is quite wide so I can't hold in my palm. I do thumb on the back instead. Picking is tight and precise, and the picking plus the thumb-on-back hand position plus the massive sound means I approach this guitar clinically, precisely, intentionally.
This resonate with anybody? Or just another academic exercise in over-thinking about guitar technique?
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