Musical Tip Of The Day. Today's tip is for all of you who play guitar . . Avoid The Left-Hand Death Grip When you first start playing, straight away you’ll discover that pressing the strings against the fret boardhow-to-play-the-guitar is hard work, hurts your fingers and makes your wrist ache. The natural way to combat this is by hooking your thumb over the top of the fret board to get leverage, which inadvertently causes you to press the strings more with the flat pad of your finger (where y