In general you should aim for the most relaxed & natural position for efficiency of motion. That might slightly change depending on the musical line you are playing. For example you might find that you need to slightly adjust your approach if you are playing on the lower strings versus the upper strings. Or the lower, wider frets versus the upper, more narrow frets.
I've got a bunch of tutorials on playing fast lines. Almost all of them mention proper physical motions & mechanics in some way. Depending on your skill level you might want to start with these exercises on the major & minor scale patterns.
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/2643/
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/2646/
If those are all easy, then try these on visualizing repeating octaves of diatonic patterns across the fretboard.
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/419/
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/898/
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/899/
And after those, or if you just want to just jump to the shredding, these deal specifically with the mechanics of playing fast single note lead lines in a rock style context. The first one in particular deals with a lot of the basic mechanics of stay relaxed & having natural efficiency of motion while playing fast lines.
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/287/
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/928/
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/929/
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/973/
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/980/
Hope that helps!
Hi Christoper,
Thank your for your advise. Working on it.
Another question on the open chord lef finger placement. Somehow my fingers seem to be too thick or too sweaty because somehow with a open G or C chord I always touch/demp the other strings. So putting my fingers on the E and A string then the A an D string gets demped. I change the angle of my hand, but does not work, and I try to press the string with the tip of my finger, but somehow I cannot bend my fingers enought to get a 90 degrees angle, or my fingers slide away to the middle of the tip away from the nail.
Do you perhaps have any solutions like, are my strings perhaps too old/slippery, it's been a very long time that I changed them? Or a more expensive one, is the neck of my guitar to small (Fender Squier) and should I get my self another guitar with wider neck :-)? Or are there perhaps exercises to make fingers bend enough so I get the correct angel to play these open chord G and C, or...?
Looking forward to any tips.
