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question about playing chords

howdy,

i'm pretty new to the guitar and i have a question about playing
chords.

i've been playing a lot of open chords lately.  i have a book called
the beatles fake book and i was trying my hand at a song entitled "PS
I love you".

i was playing the first three chords which are all open chords: em7,
c#7, and D

my question is that i was reading my learning book and it recommend to
play the chords with the thumb behind the neck.   but i think that
hooking it over the neck, like how i have seen hendrix, clapton, and
just 'bout every other guitar player does it is more comfortable.   so
that's what i'm gonna do.

what do you find it easier to play those chords, thumb behind the
neck, or thumb over the neck like clapton does it?   how would you
recommend I do it as a beginner?

also, when I hook the thumb over the neck to fret em7, when I move to
the next open chord, C#7, I have a tendency to move the thumb so that
it is pressed against the back of the neck, I guess because it's
fingered a bit lower.  but when I play the D major, which comes next,
I move the thumb back up over the top.

i guess i shouldn't be doing that with the C#7 chord since i should be
able to play it with the thumb hooked over the top of the neck,
right?  it does seem like a lot of unnecessary hand movement to be
moving the thumb up and down between these 3 chords.     how would you
do it?

thanks for helping this clueless newbie,

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