Added by on 2013-07-15

Good left hand technique is essential to playing guitar. Without it you may always be unable to play the things you aspire to. Poor technique can also in the long run damage the hands and cause physical problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome among others. In this lesson Mike Williams from www.ShredGuitarAcademy.com will show you the basics of good left hand positioning for maximum dexterity with minimum effort. Part 2 of 2. Video Rating: 4 / 5

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24 Comments

  • rockdw 11 years ago

    how to practice my pinky? it always move very far away from the neck

  • ShredGuitarAcademy 11 years ago

    Both are important but I would say whats most important to playing at fast speeds is economy of movement. Make sure all the movements of your hands are as small as possible. m/

  • 717deathmetal 11 years ago

    Is finger “strength” really essential or is really the angle of your fingers that makes playing fast easy?

  • Hatebreed987 11 years ago

    I’ve been playing guitar for just a few months now, but I played bass for several years before that. I’m having a problem with my left hand now because with bass, my fingers didn’t need to be perfectly perpendicular to the string because the strings were spaced out much more. Now with guitar I need to do this or I end up making contact with other strings. I know I can tediously just practice it and pay attention to it to improve, but do you have any more specific tips that might help? Thanks.

  • Francisco Giraldo 11 years ago

    Cool outro song!! where can I download it?!?

  • rjvznl 11 years ago

    great lesson great player thnx :P

  • Bill Coleman 11 years ago

    really great 2 lessons! very helpful… thanks, man! I wish someone had shown me this stuff when I was starting out years ago, I’ve got a LOT of very bad habits to undo.

  • Marcel818 11 years ago

    in a fast motion, while your right hand is in the swing of the picking motion?
    I really have that problem with 2 or 3 finger power chords… or do you keep everything pressed down?

    Thanks in advance, I really struggled with this for a long time now, and I hope you can finally clear something up for me :D

  • Marcel818 11 years ago

    What about shifting your hole hand between frets, like from the first fret to second, from frist to third, to fifth/sitxh/ seventh and so on…Do you lift up your fingers and thumb of the fretboard/neck, and press it down again in the next position?

    Because when I do that I always hear a dead sound in between instead of a nice fluid sound, like you cant hear that you are shifting. Does it have anything to do with synchronisation? like push down relax your hand, shift and press down again

  • funkycowboy 11 years ago

    You say to have your left hand curved but how do you mute the other notes if you are doing single notes and they are curved?

  • yeahcancun 11 years ago

    I’m having problem using my pinky while doing some fingering techniques because I’m basically using 3 of my other fingers which sometime makes it harder to play wider scale. Could u suggest any fingering exercise? or any technique to improve my fingering?

  • Zexsrbenda 11 years ago

    Your tutorials are amazing… I wish i could play guitar 1 day like u… My problem is that i have small fingers so i cant reach top string… :(

  • ShredGuitarAcademy 11 years ago

    It’s difficult for me to diagnose technique issues without being able to see them. Warm up well. Don’t overdo it. Don’t play in pain. If it’s starting to hurt take a break and come back to it later. If you keep having problems my advice would be to go to a teacher that can see what you are doing. Hope that helps. m/

  • The3XpL0D 11 years ago

    If I try, as you said, to make the last joint of the finger drop directly on the string, it makes a pretty big tension in my wrist and hurts after a bit.Do you have any advices for that ?

  • Soilwar 11 years ago

    3:22 I simply can’t do that. Same with the thumb.. I see most classical fingerstyle guitar players bending their right-hand thumb like crazy all the time. Only broken knuckles would help I guess, lol!

  • swedo88 11 years ago

    Great lessons. Tecnique is just as important as a creative mind. thx

  • John Paul Codnita 11 years ago

    great teacher man…thanx God bless yah..m/

  • Alexander Hansen 11 years ago

    Pretty much my favorite YouTube guitar teacher. Keep up the good work, I look forward to more intermediate and advanced lessons:)

  • Gemsin1 11 years ago

    so every 4th fret you start again with the first finger second finger third and forth agin all the way up the neck ?

  • bloodandbones9 11 years ago

    Thumbs up for the sigil of Baphomet.

  • karlo wolf 11 years ago

    that’s what i did.
    the hardest solo i could play was guns n roses sweet child of mine and i jumped to malmsteen’s arpeggios from hell.took me 3 months to learn and 6 months to clean it up. it’s the fastest way if you ask me

  • MyFunnyBrianShow 11 years ago

    You my amigo ROCK! your fan and friend….myfunnybrianshow…bye. p.s. i just did a berkins and it was STINKY! Laugh Out Loud! p.p.s. my Mom makes me call farts berkins.

  • alex geo 11 years ago

    thank you very much my friend.You are a real guitar teacher for me!

  • DisrespectYou 11 years ago

    Question! In your part 1 video, you mentioned about the thumb being pointed straight up in the air. Is it alright if not all of the pad of my thumb is on the neck? The best description is that it slightly rolls to the left so that a majority of the left side of the pad is on the neck.