Re: Wrist Pain.
I think your head (i.e., the instrument's head) is too low. We new players tend to play with the necks nearly parallel to the floor, like these are folk guitars. But if you watch Mike Marshall or Chris Thile and so forth, they seem to play with the neck at a 45 degree angle to the floor, much like a classical guitar. I think what that does is allow the natural line of your fingertips to be at the same angle as the fretboard. It also gets your thumb off the top of the neck. Marshall points out that as you change chords, your thumb moves around, but it's probably not supposed to roost on the top of the neck.
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