How to Tune a Left Handed Guitar Sitting Down

Video Transcript

"In this segment I'm going to talk about an extremely crucial aspect of playing that many people I've taught over the years don't take into account, and that's how you hold the guitar and the position your body's in. In order to really...for the optimum style of playing is to keep your body erect, like this, where you're simply straightforward, you're not slouching because when you slouch you inhibit when you're trying to play the instrument as opposed if you're standing you can manipulate your instrument much better. So first of all you want to sit up straight, and then you want to be completely relaxed. You don't want to have any kind of tension on your muscles anymore than you have to. So with your fret hand, and for us lefties being our right hand, you essentially want to hold the neck, you want your hands just kind of comfortably laying across, and more importantly with an arch over the fret board. You don't want your hands flat, you want them arched over whether you're playing a scale or if you're playing a chord, you want a certain little arch, and with your picking hand you simply want to be able to strum down, or if you're picking, you want your hand very relaxed, your arm rested over, like over this, or even if there's not a contour here, even if it's a straight you want your hand reaching over that where your attack is over the pickups. That way you can relax and thus play your instrument much easier."