From the course: Beginning Acoustic Guitar Music Lessons

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The right-hand position

The right-hand position

- Alright, now let's go over finger picking. So you guys might have already noticed, if you're looking at my hands, that I have nails on my right hand, and you don't necessarily need to have nails, but it definitely helps with tone. And the steel strings are exceptionally hard on your nails, so some players like myself, you know, sometimes when I'm doing a lot of finger picking on a steel-string guitar like this, I'll just get an acrylic covering on my fingernails. And that does definitely help with more accuracy and tone and strength. But again, you don't need to have that in the beginning. Let's just go over position and the correct way to finger pick. The fingers of the right hand, or picking hand, don't have numbers like the left hand. We're just going to refer to them as P, I, M, A. So let's go over that now. The right hand finger naming comes from the classical tradition which uses the Spanish name for the fingers. Pulgar, indice, medio, and angular. So we'll call the thumb P…

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