Musicians: Do you have a bad habit( musically Speaking) that you just can't break?

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I also sustained the bad habit of lazily resting my palm on the back of the fretboard. I haven't found the will to unteach myself the habit.

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I might can help with this one: start using your thumb over the top. It unglues your fretting hand.

I have big hands and long-ish fingers, so I didn't need to use my pinky as much for certain things on the guitar that other people with smaller hands were forced to, and I think it cost me as I advanced to more technical stuff.

I also was just never really interested in learning solos. My favorite songs have great, memorable rhythm guitar riffs... so thats what I learned to play. I would be a much better guitarist if I learned more solos and thus more ways to practically utilize scales.

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I "taught" myself to play bass and guitar by playing power chords using my index and pinky fingers. As a result, my ring finger is relatively underdeveloped. Since I'm self-taught, I also sustained the bad habit of lazily resting my palm on the back of the fretboard. I haven't found the will to unteach myself the habit.

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I am trying to use my pinky finger more on my fretting hand. Not because what I’m doing is wrong, but because it could help me do more.

As far as technique, there is no wrong one. If it works, it works. I’ve seen some of the best players in the world using what some know-it-all on YouTube or in some classroom would say is all wrong.

When I play acoustic a lot of times I’ll just lay my pointer finger accross the second fret to play my A, it’s just being lazy and always regret when I do it, sounds so much better fingered the right way.

spend way too much time looking at the goddam fretboard

i mean, its not like it changes when i look away

I sing harmonies in the car. Hell, I learned how to play a tamborine with my right hand... driving with my left hand. Great way. What ever comes on .. sing harmony, play tambourine...

Better that stearing wheele snare and cymbals, dashboard toms, and gas pedal kich drum.

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When I play acoustic a lot of times I’ll just lay my pointer finger accross the second fret to play my A, it’s just being lazy and always regret when I do it, sounds so much better fingered the right way.

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Tune your bottom E string down a full step.
You can also tune your B string down 1/2 step, then when you're fretting those bottom 4 strings at the 2nd fret you're really playing in Am.
You can do some really folky/jazzy shuffles out of that position that sound great, even though you're really not doing much at all.
I've started feeling guilty about it.

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spend way too much time looking at the goddam fretboard

i mean, its not like it changes when i look away

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Not sure that's a bad habit.