Three finger technique - scales and arpeggios?

[znerken]

So my teacher highly recommends me to get into this. I have been trying, mainly by getting the thumb over the neck and the neck resting on the palm. My teacher states that many of my playing problems is due to me wanting to do stuff like hammer on/off with pinky etc. I played very classical position before I had sessions with him


Now that I try to play this way I notice that many arpeggios and even scale shapes becomes unatural, because I am used to using pinky. Holding the fingers in an angle makes fretting notes with pinky even harder. So not that I am going to stop using the pinky, but I wonder if anyone can recommend me some material to read? Perhaps where this technique is discussed and perhaps even were stuff like arpeggios and scales are mentioned?

How does the players who use these techniques play scales and arps? I understood from my teacher that you use the pinky when necessary, but I also understood that you will always sacrifice some of the articulation potential by using the pinky.


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[p1p]

I find the pinky allows you to do some things that would otherwise be impossible, especially at speed. Your teacher is against using your pinky?

[znerken]

I find the pinky allows you to do some things that would otherwise be impossible, especially at speed. Your teacher is against using your pinky?

Not at all. He just wants me to primarily use the three others and have the fingers at an angle. More “jazzy technique”. Look at peter Bernstein play for example. Or pat.


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[znerken]

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Or this. He seems to have adjusted it to use a lot of pinky.


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[p1p]

I see. Well those are the stronger fingers.

[Rsilver]

It gets you out of position playing and more moving up and down the neck. This has the added benefit of having your lines never die because you’ve reached the limits of the current position that you happen to be in.

[joe2758]

If I was going to get into 3 finger technique I'd shed Garrison Fewell's book. It's really good