Lesson n° 8: Left hand - Positioning 2 fingers
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Same features as with the Right hand: elbow upwards and wrist slightly bent

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- Notice the bent wrist;

- Thumb tip plucking the high part of the first string;

- The thumb and the forefinger form a perpendicular angle;

- Forefinger tip plucking the other string, rather backwards;

- The other fingers are "coiled up" inside the hand.

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View from above: notice the perpendicular angle between the two fingers;

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Opposite view; mind the mistakes observed for the right hand, which are still to forbid for the left hand (lesson 6) : klunky fingers, wrong perpendicular angle...
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