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Hand positions

Brian Prunka - 10-8-2019 at 07:50 AM

I thought this might be of interest to some people, I was checking out a video of Simon Shaheen and the camera angles were perfect for getting a good view of his right hand position and risha grip (left hand too). I took some screenshots:


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alim - 10-8-2019 at 09:45 AM

Very cool (and instructive!). Thanks for sharing Brian.

Ali-

danieletarab - 10-8-2019 at 01:38 PM

Wow! Thank you Brian! That means that as far as hand position is concerned, I am not doing that bad! Now the problem that I have to sort out is playing decently :)

Jason - 10-9-2019 at 04:55 PM

I've watched that video a bunch it's awesome. Is that a Nahat he's playing?