Video 4: The Essentials of Fingernail Use

Video 4: The Essentials of Fingernail Use:

This essential video is about how your nails actually engage the strings.

Where and how the string actually needs to meet the nail (or nail meet string)
How the string leaves the nail (or how the nail leaves the string)
The most important skills you need to spend quality time mastering if you want to develop great tone using your fingernails.
The rundown on “nail noise,” and how you can deal with it effectively. More on this later.
Three points on the nail that you need to pay attention to when shaping and smoothing the nail: the entry point, the ramp, and the exit point.
The various factors that go into determining the shape you ultimately want to give your fingernails
Two basic shapes that are often recommended/touted as the “only” way to do it:

Why you should play around with these shapes, to find your own most workable shape, and even combine the two in some cases.
Musical and technical strengths/benefits of each shape
Another suggested workaround for those who have problem nails: the “reverse Gumby.”
Some general rules about the lengths of the nails in relation to each other