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Ricardo
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 RE: Moving hand positions for differ... (in reply to Guest)
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As Romerito said, slow practice, but specifically slow and IN RHYTHM. That is the key to making your music and technique "flow".
But experiment by looking in the mirror. Many flamenco players play straight on and play with bent fingers. If your finger pluck straight sometimes and curve others, then that might be the snag. Paco Cepero plays "flat" on to the strings for arpegio, his fingers are curled. But when he plays picado his hand "switches" very fast to straight. He is just as fast and smooth as PDL. Grisha plays pretty straight fingered for both arps and picados. Classical players play more straight fingered in general too. In fact "curled" fingers is thought to be bad for classical like "clawing" at the strings. But for flamenco, that is part of the bite in the flamenco sound.
The thumb angle has a lot to do with how your fingers will pluck the strings. For example, guys who play curved or bent fingers always keep the thumb off to the left over the sound hole. Folks who play more straight fingered, have the thumb more perpendicular, under or inside the hand from the front view. Wrist out is straight fingers, wrist flat, bent fingers. Not one right or wrong way, just be aware and get used to what is most comfortable. For example paco's hand does not move position from the front angle so much, because his fingers are bent both for arps and picado. But check out when he does tremolo. His fingers straighten just a bit and his thumb plays more perpendicular. His wrist bends a bit. Nunez or Manolo Sanlucar do tremolo with the Thumb over the sound hole more, fingers more curved, wrist flat.
In the end it is what you can feel comfy with and control the easiest. Practice rhythmically and you will get it.
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Date Nov. 10 2006 22:24:54
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Ricardo
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RE: Moving hand positions for differ... (in reply to Guest)
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SOOO, is the open E string played apoyando or not?
Honestly it should not matter if you did the exercise I described, just stop on the C#, but make it a rhythm pamipimaI, and accent the I. 1e&ah 2e&ah 3, repeat over and over until you really nail the third beat with no problem and no delay. Use the metronome of course!
Try the "a" finger both ways to see if one is smoother than the other. If you really must have it apoyando, and you find it more difficult than the free stroke, then emphasize that rhythmically too.
pamipimAI, or 1e&ah 2e&"AH 3!", repeat. If you keep the rhythmic feel you can speed that up, but don't go any faster than you can keep the "AH-THREE" rhythm tight.
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Date Nov. 17 2006 19:36:18
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