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Picado: Grisha's tips
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Leñador
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Joined: Jun. 8 2012
From: Los Angeles
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RE: Picado: Grisha's tips (in reply to el.toro)
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A good picado is a really tough thing, maybe the toughest thing. Technically the string vibrating towards and away from the soundboard is ideal, rather then towards and away from the bottom of your guitar. If your feeling pain your doing something wrong. If your a beginner there is nearly no way to tell if your doing it wrong, you would have to have an experienced player watch you and say what your doing wrong/right. That said, there's no exact perfect way to do a picado, I've seen world class players contradict each other about the proper perfect technique. There is however a wrong way to do things, and that can, at the least inhibit you from getting better and at worst actually damage your hands. Pain is no good, if you feel pain do something different, maybe your anatomy is not built to play the way another player can. Anyways, if you've only been playing a month, rasgueados and rhythm should be your primary concern like Bursche said. Slooooooooooow is your friend.
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Date Oct. 26 2012 22:18:35
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turnermoran
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RE: Picado: Grisha's tips (in reply to Leñador)
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virtually everyone agrees that Slow is best, both in the beginning, and some say forever. So I don't see what bad can come of including slow picado practice for total beginners. Like "spider exercise" or other basic technical exercises that deal with individual left hand fingers moving w/ corresponding RH picado. Otherwise, nothing but rasgueado practice means that the left hand focuses almost entirely on "chord grips". In the end, while it may be frustrating due to amount of precision, picado is a super fine-motor activity and if done slowly and with relaxed technique, only aids in creating good neural connections, fine motor skill and muscle memory. Sure, you may not need (or shouldn't need) and picado passages in your playing if you're a beginner, but the nuance of playing any technique is a matter of details, and why not incorporate details from the beginning? IMO, everyone benefits from having a balanced practice regime from beginners to advanced; rasgeuado, pulgar, picado, arpeggio, etc If nothing else, it rests certains muscles/tendons, etc as you move your arm/hands through the various positions
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