Rhythm guitar slaves!! - Escape through position orientation....

 Orchestrate your way out of slavery? Spartacus says yes!

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    Remember that people have been taught to be servants throughout the history of music education. This mentality permeates electric guitar bands from kid garage bands to the highest-paid billion-dollar grossing artists. It holds them back. Like a soldier learning to drill, the guitar slaves await a command to play..... staying in the same register and in that same position throughout each measure.....then onto the next responsibility to play the next chord in the same orientation or position throughout that next measure again because a good little guitar gladiator has to only fight when and how he is told. LOL
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  The "Spartacus of Guitar Blog" says to free yourself now by changing your position orientation BEFORE the song chord structure has changed. At the same time ORIENT YOURSELF to a different root note instead of chording everything. This is a basic freedom for rhythm guitarists that is largely overlooked and discouraged by producers these days. In fact what's worse is that you will see bands with two or three guitarists playing together in exactly the same register and holding the chords measure by measure without ever altering their position.  It has a loud and slightly phlanged value though. :-)

  Another point is that for the guitar it is better to orient yourself on the first string. They don't call it the first string for nothing. LOL It is the 1st string because the way guitar was developed, Playing the  guitar as it was intended makes it much easier. The 5th and 6th strings are viewed more as baritone or  filling on some bass. The mental training and gymnastics that are necessary is to visualize your guitar as being seen by you in a chair watching yourself in order to counteract the counterintuitive nature of sounds going down as you go up from first string, to the second and so on, IS REALLY WORTH IT! :-)

Here's a video which will demonstrate some amazing advantages to changing your position orientation before the chord has changed in the composition. It inculdues some HEY JOE by Jimi Hendrix:

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