so what you're saying is that the finger or body parts distract from the sustain of the guitar as vibrations are also transfered to your body correct?james0tucson wrote:Touching the soundboard is always poor technique on an acoustic guitar. You really "should" not even have your forearm touching the body, but it's pretty hard to play a dreadnought guitar without resting your forearm there.
On an electric guitar, the argument doesn't really matter since there isn't really a soundboard at work, and touching it won't affect the tone. It's a crutch, however, and it's going to stop you from crossing a certain milestone of precision. It's much better to train yourself to not need the crutch and learn picking control instead. Then you'll play better regardless of whose guitar you're playing, electric, acoustic, archtop, solid, with a trem, etc.
That I can see, but I can also see that being a useful Technique that I may in fact use
...these things I just do without thinking about it...but when it comes to accoustics it's a whole new ball game for me...most of the time it's wide open strumming or finger picking.Though I just though of this, but bass players have no problem resting their fingers on the ax, I mean just look at a P-bass...
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