1 Reply by bainbridge

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Hi milennium_03

The buzz is me not pushing hard enough with my index finger when fingering an A, but like you said muscle memory is slowly beginning to kick in & its starting to feel more natural.

Was really struggling to get a clean sound when fingering D, could only do so by stopping playing & moving my 3rd finger around to avoid the 1st & 3rd strings, this dull D was really noticable when upstrumming but I got home tonight & had a go & yippee I'm getting it in the right place while playing.

Going straight from E to D with an upstrum is still producing a dull-sounding D but i think thats because I'm having to move my 3rd finger over from the 4th string to the 2nd instead of simply sliding it along the 2nd string (as with A to E). More practice though & I will get there.

Struggling a bit with the pick shifting around in between my fingers whilst I'm strumming, if I hold it too firmly I dont get a smooth strum but if I'm gentle it tends to turn sideways so by the end of the accompaniment I'm no longer using the pointy bit or sometimes I drop it! Got 3 different sized picks & am experimenting with them.

cheers

bainbridge

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2 Reply by bainbridge

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Thanks Delboy & olly default/big_smile

Getting a lot less buzz & duff notes now, not as good as I would like but much better. Its great turning on the distortion on this little 10w Marshall amp it seems to disguise my errors a bit! Though when I am practising properly I do have distortion off.

Have been playing around with the 3 chords I know & its good practice I reckon because I'm now just planting my fingers on the fingerboard instead of putting down my index finger first to guide the other fingers into position.

Onto the next song now, Candle in the Wind......WOW!

Anyway thanks for the advice so far.

Bainbridge

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3 Topic by bainbridge

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Hi All

Been learning for about 2 weeks, bought a Yamaha Pacifica & am following The Complete Guitar Player by Russ Shipton.

Really enjoying it, struggled at first even playing one decent chord but am geting better every day. As per the book I am just learnt chords A, D & E at the moment & am currently learning to upstrum. My poor fingering of chord D is really noticable on the upstrum, but to be honest unless I practice each chord individually there is a bit of buzzing & dull notes here & there.

Getting better all the time though, after about 30 minutes practice I get these grooves pressed into my fingers from the strings & cant play the chords as cleanly as the first 20 minutes or so. They are starting to toughen up a bit though & I hope when they have hardened my fingertips will be a bit narrower when I'm fingering the chords instead of squadging over more than one string.

Anyway as you will have obviously gathered its very early days, but learning the guitar is great I just love that little Pacifica!

Thanks for reading

bainbridge

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