| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Double Thumbing | | Date: | Sunday, July 1, 2007 20:09:57 (-0700) | | From: | PHIL LEADBETTER <philibuster1 @.....com>
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| In reply to: | Message 7043 (written by D. Tannehill) |
--- "D. Tannehill" <ephsmath-phys@cox.net> wrote:
I am actually left handed. When I first started playing the
reso, I played it left handed. Actually learned a couple of
tunes (Wabash Cannonball and Great Speckled Bird) before I
switched over to playing right handed. I still write and do
several other things left handed.
As far as the index finger use, I think the index (IMO) is
just as important as my middle finger. When I first started,
I tried to skip around it a little bit, but once I got to
where I could use it correctly it helped to make all the
rolls and licks flow better. I remember a time when I tried
to avoid it, but finally it started working for me. I think
the index finger is always the last finger to really get
solid.
When Matt was first learning, he tried to do everything with
only his thumb and middle. I kept telling him to work on his
index finger, but he would play everything with only two. I
could stand outside his bedroom and hear that he was only
using 2 by the flow of the licks he was playing. One day, I
noticed the licks getting better and really starting to take
off. That was the point he started making the idex work.
Once he did, he realized that I was correct in telling him
that the index finger was very important.
I guess if I ONLY had one digit, it would be my thumb.
If I had to choose between my index and my middle it would
be a toss up. In my opinion they are both equally important.
Phil
> Huh, imagine that. Being left handed and picking right
> handed, I always
> figured my lazy index finger was a problem I had to fix.
> Now I can just say
> I'm double thumbing. Seriously, I've noticed that I only
> use the index
> finger occasionally. Up until now, I figured it was a bad
> habit that I
> needed to concentrate on. But so far it hasn't really
> caused to many
> problems.
>
> Dan in RI
>
>
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