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    • Anchoring the pinky

      Hello everyone and Emil!

      What an amazing forum here and great lessons. So glad i joined!

      I have a question regarding anchoring with the right hand. It is very common to anchor some part of your palm on the bridge of the guitar to create a solid foundation for picking and muting. But I've come across a lot of examples of players not only anchoring on the bridge, but also anchoring the pinky on the pickguard below the high E-string.

      What are the advantages of this? I've experimented with it and it seems to slightly improve picking precision, but I find it harder to relax my picking hand with the pinky being pushed (lightly) onto the pickguard to anchor.

      When looking at Emil playing he never seems to anchor the pinky. But I see many other great players do it such as Tommy E. and Andrea Valeri. Check Andrea here i.e. using pinky anchoring:
      Andrea Valeri - Guanches (live) – 02:14
      — Guitar Village

      And Tommy too:
      Acoustic Nation Lesson: Tommy Emmanuel Teaches His Picking Technique – [01:30..04:42] 04:42
      — Acoustic Nation

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