EliteGuitarist.com - The Controversial Right Hand Position - Beginning Classical Guitar Technique 

Please continue the classical guitar lessons. I look forward to your lessons.

I wish more guitarists would use the Sagovia style. It makes rest strokes sound amazing. Guitarists today don't use enough rest stroke.

Without being polemical, regarding the arm positioning.. It's true and it's wrong at the same time, there are lots of great guitarists that use the forearm positioning, Segovia, Russel and Bream (Bream used both) just to make 3 name used the "wrong" position. I believe we are all different and that it takes time to understand what works better for you. Just my opinion of course.

Thank you so much for the suggestion. I’m 5”2 with short arms, and when I started learning to play classical guitar more than 50 years ago, it’s hard to get small scale guitars that would fit me and my arm better. It’s like golf, we need to get fitted well and right.

I was having a great deal of trouble with consistent Tremolo and accuracy. Went back to the basics - imagine that. Thanks for the self induced reminder Tavi. Cheers.

Great advice!

Very practical.Thanks elit

Thank you, this is very interesting.

Nice video. For me, the real pedagogical danger here is teaching students that there is only one hand position. In my opinion, there are a variety of spectrums of which we need to be aware: plucking perpendicular or obliquely, using a high wrist or a low wrist, playing with flesh or nail, etc... I think we as musicians need to master ALL of these techniques. Which one we use is entirely dependent on what the music needs at that moment.

really nicely explained, u earned a sub and an eager student

There are a few RH positions developed throughout times, but they all have common principle, i.e. the finger movement is on the knuckle joins, not finger joins. The difference between techniques is the angle of attack. Some players like to use Right side of the nail, but some Left, or both in combination. Segovia, Williams and Yepes have what I call the most widely acceptable position. Ida Presti has different position. Liona Boyd uses both sides of her nails.

Very detailed and informative analysis that one you did - thank you for that. I admire the fact that you took the time to talk about different schools of thought and giving your personal opinion and experience on that. On an irrelevant note, whenever you do talk, the guitars strings reverberate and they generate some harmonics, thus creating a bit of a 'muddy' atmosphere for your video and it tends to distract me :) . Then again, it's is not an issue. Overall, excellent, beautiful analysis.

I am guilty of using my pinky for stability, even on electric guitar. I also palm mute a lot to keep in place so i have stability and minimal string noise but big reduction in speed and movement

Grate! Thank you! Still it's a mystery for me what to do with the right hand pinky. I see the masters are often do two things: 1) glue the pinky to the ring finger, which when I try to follow 7:15 w this manner has a definite disadvantage, for the ring finger, being the weakest, has, in addition to its own movement, to drag the pinky 2) stack the pinky out, which when I try to follow ends up with a tension in the palm. What on Earth should I do?

Can you please make a video for people who want to learn how to play with a bent wrist?

I have longer arms; how do I accommodate ?

I have bad habbit picking string

Best Guideline for Right Hand. Thanks.

What is the name of the song that you demonstrated with tilted hand position at 3:07

I will only be able to get a classical guitar in a few months, and currently have an acoustic. Do you think its okay that I start learning classical on it? Or should i wait?

Spain is Europe also, like Germany.

You must have a very short arm?

You have a very unusual H high positioning of your guitar. Perhaps if you had included that in the lesson, your right hand technique would have been more feasible to the viewer

Since just about all, if not all, of the best guitarists place the actual forearm on the guitar without getting any nerve damage, I would say that you are wrong about this.

There’s no doubt that bent wrist is superior. The flat wrist is the reason for the horrendously long thumb nail we see today, and long nails in general, which sound bad.