Sometimes my YouTube mandolin searches take me into guitar videos and I found various videos promoting the "spider walk" as a miracle exercise.
http://creativeguitarstudio.blogspot...r-30-days.html
I found my left hand position on the neck contorting as I went through the exercise, trying to keep the finger bridge in place; something I wouldn't normally do if I could lift my fingers. Getting a clean sound was also hard keeping all the fingers down, which isn't normally when I can lift them and apply at a different angle.
I searched through the Mandolin Cafe and didn't really find any references to the spider walk exercise for mandolin and wondered why.
Is it not helpful for the mandolin playing style? Does it not translate to the smaller fretboard easily? Does it create inadvertent bad habits?
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