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About guitar fingerpicking pinky against the plate

I have encountered the situation you mentioned, tell me my experience

Generally for most people, the ring finger has incomplete independence, the little finger basically does not have independence, that is, as we say, "the little finger and the ring finger a tendon," when your pinky finger upright, want to bend the ring finger, then there are only two cases, one is the second joint of your pinky finger will bend with it, the other is to force the pinky finger to be upright, but the ring finger only the second joint is bent, the first joint is weak

The little finger against the board, the American playing method is mostly the second joint is bent, the outer side against. In the video, the little finger is slightly bent, so that there is a buffer when the ring finger plucks the strings, so that the first joint of the ring finger is not weak, practice more first, let the little finger relax a bit, and later learn the three-finger method of playing and am fingering will be a lot better

Pinky against the board to practice for a while and then take a break, the early stage of the practice is too long and will easily lead to pain and rigidity (e.g., the first joint is bent, the second joint is reflexive, the ligament stiffness of the The situation)