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Tremolo Excercise
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Miguel de Maria
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From: Phoenix, AZ
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RE: Tremolo Excercise (in reply to TANúñez)
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I did too. I think you guys were all here, telling me, Mike don't play so many scales, you're going to get burned out, hurt your wrists, blah blah. Well, right now I'm not playing so many exercises, although I still get some in there. RichardM's advice for achieving Paco de Lucia sounding scales intrigues me, because he said that Paco's method makes it sound cleaner and better, even though someone might be playing at the same speed. I had noticed that I played some fast runs and they just didn't sound like Paco. RichardM says that Paco plays the picado runs stacatto--he stops the string with the next finger before he plays it. Of course, all picado does this to some extent, but Paco emphasizes the effect. This has gotten me back to playing scales at least half an hour a day. I want to sound like Paco! I was talking to one of my friends yesterday, an expert guitarist. He said it took him about 3 years of heavy practicing to get his technique. Note that this stage came after he had been playing for many years. This is borne out by my experience, too. After playing guitar about a decade, I entered a phase of woodshedding, practicing from 2-8 hours a day. I'm about 2 years into this phase and have really gotten incredible gains. I wonder if this works this way for a lot f people. And by technique, I mean pro-level high technique... my friend shreds, plays lots of sextuplets in his improvising!
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Date Mar. 3 2004 14:16:58
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Miguel de Maria
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RE: Tremolo Excercise (in reply to TANúñez)
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Henrik, don't be so competitive:). Anyways, I'm into flamenco not heavy metal. Ron, my friend Arturo is into improvising, he is Mexican and his songs have for the most part, Latin chord progressions, although usually with more of a rock feel. He also plays with a pick. I think he can read music but I have never seen him with any scores, so that rules out that shred definition. I am sure you are aware that in the 80's there was a subculture of the guitar subculture that liked to play Jackson guitars very loud and very fast, using very thin picks and lots of hammer-ons and hammer-offs. This is the shredding I'm talking about! Although in Arturo's defense, he's playing an acoustic, nylon string guitar with a heavy pick and gets about as aggressive a sound as you're going to get out of a pick. He's real good, although that style of his guitar is not particularly to my taste. But I do like the shred a la Paco :)
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Date Mar. 3 2004 17:40:04
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