5 Fretting Hand Mistakes that RUIN your sound! (fix in 16 minutes)

Today we'll go through 5 fretting hand mistakes that almost every beginner guitarist makes. After fixing them your chords will sound loud and clean, your hand won't get tired and you'll sound more professional.

Mistakes 4 & 5 are not that common but it's much harder to notice them on your own, so you should watch this video even if you're an advancer player. All these tips apply both to acoustic and electric guitar.

👉 Video Chapters
00:00 What you'll learn today
00:39 Why is it important to fix these mistakes
01:31 How to get more lessons from us
01:42 Mistake #1
03:50 Mistake #2
06:36 Mistake #3
09:10 Mistake #4
13:30 Mistake #5
15:59 Summing up

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[julieannhilary]

Absolutely love this! I'm been learning on my own for over a year and couldn't work out why I still didn't sound great! Thank you, the strumming video was so helpful too!

[romeubiscaiamachado]

Thank you for sharing the fundamental knowledge every teacher should teach their students before touching any strings.

Great video clearly with years of practical learning shared in a very didactic way.

I would recommend to explore more the muting processes connected with the classic major chords as well.

Thank you again and look forward for more lessons to consume and practice (and buy!)

[TheMoneyMakingMentor]

These are great instructions for improving

[juditharmstrong]

This has got to be the best tutorial I have ever watch. I make all these mistakes over a song and didn't know how to fix it . At least I could hear it and was wondering, what's going on . 😘 thanks very much

[jeffo]

Great tips; thank you! Really appreciate the advice on elbow position. I've been playing acoustic for several years now and noticed a bad habit of letting my elbow drift too far from my torso; especially when trying to get all my fingertips pinned (another of your tips) on a 4-fingered G chord. Paying more attention now to elbow position and it really pays off. Getting more leverage on my bar chords now, so am able to hit them cleaner on fast transitions. Thanks very much for the video. Greatly appreciated!

[maxkelter]

Nice to be aware of all these tips when playing. Thanks for pointing these out clearly.

[davidneale]

Great lesson, thank you so much. All these little tips are a great help

[Engmaths]

Another problem I have found is bending the strings which causes one of the notes to go out of tune with the others. This is particularly easy to do with the more harder to play chords. Similar problem I get is with my electric guitar that has deeper frets so when I push the string down to the wood, I get dissonance again - I have to be careful to not push all the string down hard and thus stretch the string out of tune. Some chords seem worse than others like D for example.

[ChandraShekhar-bycd]

Please upload more vidoes, it is quite helpful.

[lydiad]

thank you so very much! both this and the picking video fixed the exact issues I was having :)

[lyly]

I'm so interested with all your lessons. Thank you!

[mspeedm]

that thumb location on barre chords is interesting never noticed it but defnitely guilty of it if moving hand towards me. sanding the neck back down helps some

[mrgreen]

Sir, can you also make tutorial on how to fix the guitar with rod(given). I read instructions and did my guitar but nothing much changed. Can't hold bar chords properly because of that.

[liladelavega]

Hi! You are a great teacher. Do you give private online lessons too?

[bikashbiswas]

I cant sing song with straming. Please make a video in it

[andrewboland]

I'm still making this mistake even though I know I shouldn't be, probably just need to practice slower then speed up everytime I get the hang of it

[KaptainCanuck]

I wanted to see if the annoyance was here, as well, and it is. I got far enough to make a technical note for guitarists: the fret and fret wire are NOT the same thing. A fret wire is the metal piece crossing the fretboard. The fret is the wide space on the fretboard between the fret wire and does not include the said wire.

[GimmieCookie]

Missed a VERY important mistake: failing to mute unplayed strings. As you see him playing his D chord, he mutes the E and A string. With muting you eliminate accidentally sounding strings (forgiving when sloppy or lazy strumming) even with precise strums, stings will resonate even when not struck.

[tanmaypatro]

What is actually hard is making the mistake if you're used to the right way lol

[stevie-ray]

Thanks, although I was taught by a professional classical guitarist that you shouldn't wrap your thumb over the top of the guitar-neck!