A recurring piece of eadvice on this forum regards fingering: 1st finger: frets 1,2, 2nd finger: frets 3,4, etc.
I've never understood this approach, at least not in a diatonic context. E.g., that would entail entirely different fingering in the key of Ab or Db from A and D, instead of just pulling back your A and D fingerings one fret. In open position you would cover the Db and Ab scales with just three fingers, and in four instances one finger would cover two adjacent notes in the respective scales. My own default approach has always been: next note, next finger. What do the educators on the Café have to say about this?
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