Get well soon 😮

Oh man, I've been through this twice. I wish for a quick and full recovery for you.

Well, Steve Vai ended up writing a song for one hand when he had shoulder surgery, so why not? Turn lemons into lemonade!

@davidsummerville351

4 ай бұрын

Watching Steve play with one hand was amazing. Guthrie Govan is scary too.

Get better soon! Very best for a speedy and full recovery.

Good luck! Hope all goes well and a quick recovery

Praying for a quick recovery. thanks for the video

oh brother...Here's wishing you a quick and good recovery after the procedure.

Great topic. May you have a speedy recovery.

Good luck with the operation and recovery Bill.

Praying for your speedy recovery and a successful operation. 🙏

fast and complete recovery bill!!!!

You're awesome man!!!

Keep pushing forward! Your positivity is refreshing and motivating as well.

Hope all goes well… Wishing you a quick recovery!

Prayers for a quick recovery! Cool video....I'm going to work on my left hand technique. I like the sound of the other strings joining the party. Reminiscent of Alan Holdsworth.

Oh wow - you had me going there for a moment! But afte you have recovered from the surgery you will be a god on pull offs and hammer ons! Take care Bill. Speedy recovery!

hope everything goes smoothly as possible. Peace.

Very best wishes to you, sir and I hope you take time to rest and be good to yourself ✌️😌🎸

Steve Vai did a similar vid on using left hand only. He had surgery on his right side. Might be worthwhile to check out his vids too. Speedy recovery Bill !!

get well soon Bill!

Safe recovery, Bill.

Huge thanks! I’ve been struggling after reconstructive wrist surgery. I’ve had to get creative and play outside my normal style.

Nicely laid out, Bill, and without ever mentioning the technical terminology (legato) until very near the end (a good pedagogical methodology, speaking as an educator [grin]). This fretting hand development is sooo important for getting the smoothest possible changes from note to note and chord to chord in guitar phrasing. It’s not all about the speed, but it darn sure helps if you are trying to develop some speed in your guitar learning journey. While not stating it, your method here also eliminates most of the arguments I have heard from so many students who complain about or are concerned about hand size: “I can’t do ‘that’ (some certain technique) because my fingers are too small/big/short/fat…” You can experience, here, just how unimportant that notion is. If you can make notes and change notes (at least a little) smoothly with only your fretting hand, you have just unlocked a huge range of possibilities in your playing, your phrasing, your expressively! How wonderful and powerful is that?! Glad you shared this. Best to you (and your doctors!) as you proceed through the repair & recovery work!

I wish you a successful operation, I also have a problem with the fingers of my left hand, my doctors are mostly classmates from high school. They went on to medical school and I went to economics. But they propose a too radical and even a bit risky solution for me. I wish you all the best. Greetings Pavel CZ.👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸

Here's to a quick recovery!

Praying for you.

You'll need help gettin your guitar on and off, can't do all that with one hand. I've been hammering on and off strings and chords kinda like you showed here for most of my 60 years playing guitar. Wishing you a quick recovery Bill! 🙏🏼

I had a traumatic hand injury a couple of years ago on my left hand. It has changed my way of playing guitar. Right now I am just trying to gain strength and callouses. Hope your recovery is good. I tried playing left hand, but brain couldn't accept it.

Very cool! Jennifer Batten did a lot of things like this, but she would use two hands to do eight-finger tapping with hammer-ons and pull-offs. I think she has some exercise books that might be useful to some people interested in similar work to what you're doing. I hope the surgery goes well. Thinking of you! :)

@jfo3000

4 ай бұрын

Also I believe Jennifer studied with Steve Lynch at MI. Looks like he had an REH video too.

Hope you get both hands back ASAP! Time for ebow with a slide with the guitar on the knees and that ebow laying on the strings

Hope you make a speedy recovery! Have you considered picking up a usb midi keyboard during the recovery? There’s some great free plugins out there

Great attitude sir! Please report back, I am wondering if setting aside some time for one handed play on a regular basis might be a good habit.

I'm dealing with a severe case of tennis elbow myself right now. The pain & burn is excruciating!

You might want to try your hand at a MIDI controller keyboard and use computer-assisted grooving, like with scaler 2 and Paul stretch. I’ve got a few synths as fallback if I get problems with my arms/hands. I have a similar pain in my right elbow as well. 😕

Watch Steve Vai's video called "Knappsack." One-handed wizardry. Back in 2009 I had surgery on my left wrist. That's my fretting hand, so I literally couldn't play for 2 months.

I always found it strange that standard guitar are set up for the non domiannt hand to do the fretting, the fretting hand does way more work overall.

Hope you recover quickly. I had carpal tunnel release surgery on my left wrist in June 2023 and it's taken a little over six months to fully recover all sensation in my fingers. With your splint would you at least be able to hold an ebow? :)

Tune the guitar to a chord and fire up the Valhalla reverbs! Good luck with the surgery Bill.

It is all so boring. Fripp did this in 73!!!!!!