Andreas, your right hand technique

makabey

Michael Horowitz wrote:

makabey wrote:

What do you! think is the advantage of the wrist bend?

You're able to take advantage of gravity when your wrist is bent. So gravity does a lot of the work for you....you get more volume and articulation with less effort.

On electric this doesn't matter as much, hence the more common planted wrist.

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Thanks Michael for that interesting point. I also thought that is supports looseness and relaxation. But from a mere logical standpoint I think that a straight wrist (not planted or anchored to the guitar) will also allow to take advantage of gravity. Though I guess that it is easier with the wrist bend to let gravity work.

For acoustic guitars a wrist bend is in general more ergonomic I think, especially when positioning the arm in Django style.