<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">chris, i agree your fingues can't be placed on the frets themselves odviously but the thing i'm saying though is people need to find their own way. for example, when i do slide guitar i hold my guitar flat on my lap and the neck is proped up. it's not wrong but it's usually not done that way either<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Timothy <div> Your friend in the music industry </div><div> <a href="http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com">http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com</a> </div><div> 7244011224</div></span>
</div>
<br><div><div>On Jan 29, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Chris Smart wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Timothy, there is definitely a right way to position the hands and fingers, and definite do's and don't's when it comes to positioning the guitar. not to mention placing the fingers immediately behind the frets, not lifting them too far off when changing strings, using a finger as a guide or pivot etc.<br><br>But hey, free is free, right?<br><br><br><br>At 01:56 PM 1/29/2013, you wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">i don't do them in a university setting. i do them from my home. and, when i give lessons the only thing i'll do is show you some cords, some picking stragities if you wish and let you go. i believe your teacher shouldn't be a teacher as much as a director.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> let me explain what i mean. i don't believe there's a write or a wrong way to play guitar. now, people would argue with me on that but seriously, there's no write or wrong way to do it. remember, it's all theory and theory can be bent and even changed. you should hold your guitar so as it feels write to you. after all, you are the one playing it.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> i have a friend up in Charlotte NC who holds the neck of his guitar against his ear and he makes beautiful music and that's my point. the guitar should work with you as you work with it. now, i hold my guitar regularly but i do taps and harmonics and chicken picking all in 1 so that's again, my point. every instrument should be manipulated to get the sound you want out of it. sure, there's people who might say that my ideas are wrong and that's fine but what makes them wrong? how about conventional thinking.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> my personal thoughts on this is there's no write way or wrong way to do something. actually, the only wrong thing is not experimenting in my humble opinion.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> so, what i do for students interested in guitar, i show them the conventional means should they wish to do them but i also tell them to experiment and to find their own way to make their own sounds. basically, everything i show is because the person want's to be shown it. if you just want to bounce questions and ideas, that's fine as well. i do this stuff for free because i believe information should be shared freely.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Timothy<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Your friend in the music industry<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com">http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com</a>><a href="http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com">http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com</a> <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 7244011224<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Kelsey Nicolay wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I actually was taking a studio class with a private lesson. It just wasn't the right time to take lessons in a university setting.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Thank you for subscribing to MENVI. Should you wish to unsubscribe, change your delivery, or set any other options available to you, please view the list information page below. Should you have any questions, please contact the owner of the list.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Menvi-discuss mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="mailto:Menvi-discuss@menvi.org">mailto:Menvi-discuss@menvi.org</a>><a href="mailto:Menvi-discuss@menvi.org">Menvi-discuss@menvi.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://menvi.org/mailman/listinfo/menvi-discuss_menvi.org">http://menvi.org/mailman/listinfo/menvi-discuss_menvi.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thank you for subscribing to MENVI. Should you wish to unsubscribe, change your delivery, or set any other options available to you, please view the list information page below. Should you have any questions, please contact the owner of the list.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Menvi-discuss mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Menvi-discuss@menvi.org">Menvi-discuss@menvi.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://menvi.org/mailman/listinfo/menvi-discuss_menvi.org">http://menvi.org/mailman/listinfo/menvi-discuss_menvi.org</a><br></blockquote><br>--------------------------------------------------<br>CTS MASTERING, affordable and professional mixing and mastering: <a href="http://www.ctsmastering.com">http://www.ctsmastering.com</a><br>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/CTSMASTERING">https://twitter.com/#!/CTSMASTERING</a><br>BLOG: <a href="http://www.ctsmastering.com/blog">www.ctsmastering.com/blog</a><br>Linked In: <a href="http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/chris-smart/46/824/536">http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/chris-smart/46/824/536</a><br>Dropbox, Share Files Easily: <a href="http://db.tt/bQ2GuIt">http://db.tt/bQ2GuIt</a><br><br><br>Thank you for subscribing to MENVI. Should you wish to unsubscribe, change your delivery, or set any other options available to you, please view the list information page below. Should you have any questions, please contact the owner of the list.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Menvi-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Menvi-discuss@menvi.org">Menvi-discuss@menvi.org</a><br>http://menvi.org/mailman/listinfo/menvi-discuss_menvi.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>