RGS Live #78 | Q&A –Beginner’s Guide to the Palm Muting Technique

Wow! This was a great conversation full of many amazing questions such as hand positions for both fingerpicking and palm muting, information on ear training exercises, how to improve chord switching, and more!

If you were not able to join us for this latest live session and would like to participate next month, we will be meeting again on Thursday, February 1st at 12 pm PDT/ 3 pm EDT at this link. We look forward to seeing you all again next month!

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Here is how to find my course on soloing offered through RGS (MEMBER)
Best Acoustic Guitar Amps under $400
Here is how to find my Ear Training course on RGS (MEMBER)
Spanish Guitar Chord Chart This is also available for download on the Spanish Guitar for Beginners | 2nd Adventure : Heart of the “Spanish Sound” – Lesson 2-1
RGS Course on How to Find The Alternate Bass Notes (MEMBER)

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In this video:

00:02:40 - Discuss or demonstrate good hand positioning for fingerpicking and palm muting. I’m ok with finger assignment but struggle to understand the correct wrist and hand position.

00:07:05 - Do you have any tips on how to accurately pick the bass note? Low E is easy, what about the 5th and 4th strings?

00:10:11 - How can I improve chord switching and timing? Should I just keep on improving the BPM?

00:14:38 - Do we have Ear training exercises or lessons in RGS?

00:16:10 - How can we or do we use Chord progressions in fingerstyle?

00:17:30 - My thumb wants to continue to set/place itself NOT directly between my index and middle fingers BUT wants to go in the form of a hitchhiking thumb, and I would like to know if this is common and wrong.

00:20:45 - I am in the Spanish guitar class and am a total newbie. Is it important to try to memorize each chord we are learning? I keep having to go back a few lessons each time to familiarize myself again with what we’ve learned.

00:23:26 - Is there a way to make sense of the name of chords? (Bm, A7, etc.). Maybe having an understanding may help to try to memorize.

00:26:24 - Why have I finally started to memorize the guitar neck only after I started learning piano?

00:27:46 - Can you recommend a good acoustic amp

00:29:43 - Suppose I'm playing rhythm guitar with a capo on the 2nd fret in the key of A. How does the bass player know what A note to play on the fretboard?

00:32:32 - I've been practicing scales and doing a solo course, just curious why pentatonic scales leave out two notes.

00:35:41 - How do you know which notes are used in a bass run?

00:39:21 - I was chatting with a friend about capos, you see them in acoustic and classical guitars, but I don't recall seeing them used in electrical guitars at all.

00:40:50 - Do we have a soloing or improvising in RGS?

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RGS Live #78 | Q&A –Beginner’s Guide to the Palm Muting Technique

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