Comments on: A great post on thumb placement for guitarists

By: Irving Rivas

Irving Rivas — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:42:46 +0000

Ha! I perfected my windmilling so I can actually avoid the 6th string

By: Mark Wein

Mark Wein — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:01:01 +0000

I’m not 100% one way or another…open chords, funky rhythm guitar and lead guitar with lots of bends get the thumb over the top…barre chords, particularly notey scalar passages and wide stretches get more of a classical guitar thumb placement…

By: Electric guitars

Electric guitars — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:54:48 +0000

Depends on who you ask, actually. If you would ask a classically trained guitar player, he will always give you that answer with the thumb behind the neck, I guess, while a blues or rock guitar player would almost always disagree.

By: eric

eric — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:26:59 +0000

I’m an over-the-topper myself. I guess I need to work on my blues face