Anchoring pinky on guitar

1. Should you anchor your pinky when playing guitar?
2. Should you anchor your pinky when fingerpicking?
3. Is anchoring your picking hand bad?

Should you anchor your pinky when playing guitar?

Anchoring your pinky or ring finger is fine. Anchoring your palm & whole arm is fine. Just having a free floating arm & hand is also fine! Guitarists have developed clean, smooth, efficient picking with any & all of those.

Should you anchor your pinky when fingerpicking?

it's a personal choice - anchoring your pinky tends to get your hand in the right position, and is easier to build muscle memory, but you don't need to do it- and if you do, you'll limit your mobility a little. Yup.

Is anchoring your picking hand bad?

Although, at first, anchoring your picking hand in this way seems like a great idea (especially before you've built up the right muscles), it's actually very bad for your technique. ... Restricting the movement of your hand in this way is not only detrimental to picking agility, but it also creates tension in your wrist.