Hand relaxation techniques
It's very easy to lock yourself into using too much force when playing guitar, especially when you struggle with something. While in reality you wanna be as relaxed while playing as possible. For so many years I did not realize this simple thing and it had an utmost detrimental effect on my playing, demotivated me, and made me abandon guitar for significant periods.
I can't recommend this video enough. It helped me to realize how paramount relaxation of the whole body actually is. Realizing this helped me further to analyze and fix numerous problems with my left hand technique. Barres were especially painful in the past.
There are many materials on this subject and quite many talk about the same things: using natural weight of your hand, not pushing with you thumb stronger than you're pulling with the rest of your fingers, but I still could't figure out how exactly it is support to work until I watched this video and it finally clicked with me. Here Jack Sanders gives great examples and explanation of correct and incorrent techniques which helped me a lot to work through the issues I was struggling with.
There is also another video from another person about a really nice righ hand technique, which I will post later in another thread.
Re barres, it's not an easy thing at all, to be fair. I've been playing guitar (primarily, electric) for some 20 years if not more and only once I picked up classical guitar I realized that my technique if very dodgy and basically wrong in almost every possible way. And barres really made me realize that the hard and painful way. I've been pondering on this for a while and since have found a couple of really helpful videos on YT that helped me to analize and dissect the problem and redevelop my technique in such a way, that now I can play literally for hours with almost no pain, while previosly I had to stop after some 5-10 minutes of i tense "barring" as the pain was shifting from discomfort to basically cramps. I'll actually share it in a separate thread as I think many more people struggle with figuring our a "correct" technique for the left-hand, wo hopefully it will help someone as well.
Re barres, it's not an easy thing at all, to be fair. I've been playing guitar (primarily, electric) for some 20 years if not more and only once I picked up classical guitar I realized that my technique if very dodgy and basically wrong in almost every possible way. And barres really made me realize that the hard and painful way. I've been pondering on this for a while and since have found a couple of really helpful videos on YT that helped me to analize and dissect the problem and redevelop my technique in such a way, that now I can play literally for hours with almost no pain, while previosly I had to stop after some 5-10 minutes of i tense "barring" as the pain was shifting from discomfort to basically cramps. I'll actually share it in a separate thread as I think many more people struggle with figuring our a "correct" technique for the left-hand, wo hopefully it will help someone as well.
Re sub, yeah, I guess it's a combination of both. I do not read reddit still as it does contain a lot of uswful info, but I don't want to contribute there anymore.
"It least it stood behind the yellow line!" – truly a cherry on the top lol.
Thanks for the unpaywalled link ❤️
True. I reckon a lot of "magic" is happening within software and other parts of the phone (e.g. naural engine), otherwise they would not be that willing to open it up and allow anyone to basically reverse-engineer the FaceID component. Sick tech overall!
Oh nice, happy to hear that! 40 bucks doesn't sound like a lot. And congrats on the new instrument! The best guitar is the one that make you wanna play the most :)
Regarding the timing, the truth is that I just joined Lemmy and discovered this channel a few days ago. Not too much is happening here. Early adoption can be tough, hey? :)
Thanks for sharing! I know IMSLP and it's truly awesome. I can almost anything I can think of there. Haven't seen the other resources before. Will check the out!
The quote really depends on where you live as labour costs differ across the world. Next question is how labour intense is the fix and whether it makes sense to invest that much time and money into the instrument. Say, it will take a luthier 3 hours to work on the instrument and the rate is $100/hr. Based on a quick search, Walden does not seem to be an expensive brand. If you can buy a comparable used instrument for $300 or so, IMO it may make more sense to replace the instrument instead of fixing. Unless, you have some special reasons to keep this specific instrument.
The other question is how bad is the crack. I would recommend taking your instrument to a couple local luthiers to get independent opinions, then check the market form used instruments, and then make a decision.
One more important question is why this happened in the first place. Unless it has been improperly stored or handled, this kind of damage shouldn't normally occur on itself and to me this raises a serious question about the quality of the instrument. If the crack appeared "on itself" with no apparent reasons, this can happen again and you may end up pouring lots of money into fixing it instead of, say, upgrading to a better quality instrument.
Update: I just noticed that this question was posted 10 months ago. Probably, this is not so relevant for you anymore, but of you fixed your guitar, keen to know about it :)