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Left and Right hand picado speed??
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mark indigo
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RE: Left and Right hand picado speed?? (in reply to Stu)
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i'm pretty sure i can play left hand hammers and pulls faster than picado, and can also do picado with right hand fingers only on open strings faster than with left hand fretting notes.... it's the left-right coordination that messes me up! i've been using chromatic exercises and lots of scales and also playing 1-3-5-7 arpegios with IM picado (good for string crossing). i kind of keep thinking if i want to get good with IM, then surely it's better to just practise IM, but i keep practising with IA and MA too just in case what everyone else says is true and it does help... one thing i'm finding useful with left hand is all the chromatic finger combinations, not just 1234 and 4321, so i also use 1243 and 4312, 1324 and 4231, 1342 and 4213, 1423 and 4132, and 1432 and 4123. i pair them up cos i go up the neck with a pattern starting with 1 and come back down starting with 4, it's kind of neat, you can also do patterns starting with 2 and 3 but i haven't got round to seriously practising those yet... and keeping all fingers down at all times except when needed to lift to play ie. when 4 comes down 1 lifts ready, when 1 comes down 2 lifts ready etc. i do all this with picado btw, 'cos it's the coordination of left and right that's the problem for me, not either hand on it's own was gonna post some of this stuff up on flo's exercises thread a while ago but haven't got round to it yet
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Date Feb. 18 2009 13:40:39
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MarcChrys
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From: England (West Yorkshire/Lancashire)
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RE: Left and Right hand picado speed?? (in reply to Stu)
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My experience as a picado 'improver' - i.e. getting better every day - is that it's development of the right hand that's the problem/challenge. For example, if we forget about the right hand and simply finger the neck with the left hand, we can play at tremendous speed. Similarly, spped is improved if we play the left hand runs as hammer-ons/pull-offs. So, in my opinion, the problem of left-right coordination is simply (?!) one of increasing the speed AND developing the PRECISION of the right hand, so that the two hands synchronise. Thus, rather than working religiously on left-hand chromatic scales, I have found simply playing chords picado-style, working up and down the strings, doing i-m, i-m-i, i-m-i-m, and m-i-m-i 'flurries' (then the same with m-a and i-a) has really improved the 'snap', speed and control of my right hand picado. This then translates into better coordination when playing runs - so that runs that I could previously only play at a high speed with hammer-ons/pull-offs, I can now play as individually picked notes.
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Date Feb. 19 2009 1:06:20
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