Agree entirely re the benefit of music theory in opening up your playing and understanding of an instrument! Switching between guitar, banjo and mandolin really did this for me, made me look at and eventually understand chords in a way I never bothered to do when just playing the guitar...
Agree on the theory. Training my ear to learn which notes give the quality to chords really helped me. And figuring out lots of different inversions.
I’ve got short fat fingers and large palms so thumb over a lot. Also way easier to comp bass lines on the e string.
Agree entirely re the benefit of music theory in opening up your playing and understanding of an instrument! Switching between guitar, banjo and mandolin really did this for me, made me look at and eventually understand chords in a way I never bothered to do when just playing the guitar...