Picado-ish technique

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rombsix

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Joined: Jan. 11 2006
From: Beirut, Lebanon

Picado-ish technique

Hey mates! I've always wondered how the technique whereby it sounds like you're doing alternate down-up picking on one string (usually the high E string) is accomplished with fingers. You can see what I'm talking about here:

The guy playing along with Vicente does the technique I'm talking about near the end of the video.

Is he using very fast i-m-i-m just like picado? Or a-m-i-a-m-i? Or is he using i-m-i-m but with both up and down strokes (i.e. m down, i down, m up, i up, etc.) sort of like an i-m rasgueado with four strokes per cycle, but on one string with the adjacent string muted via the resting pulgar (which is the way I do this technique currently)?

You can also hear this in the following (download the file and rename it to .mp3):

Gracias!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 15 2008 14:44:23

Ricardo

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RE: Picado-ish technique (in reply to rombsix)

first one is just tremolo, amiamiami, etc The mp3 sounds like rasgueado iai, on one string.

Ricardo

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 15 2008 15:03:26