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Joined: Aug. 30 2008
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p up, ami down rasgueados
so how do you guys do your p up, ami (or am, mi, etc.) down rasgueados?
do you hold your fingers tight together as though you're holding a pick?
i use my a and m fingers together, keep my hand relaxed and loose like i would with p, am, p triplets. my index sticks out a bit to get out of the way.
i'm having trouble getting the control, speed, volume, tone, endurance that i want. even with slow practice.
RE: p up, ami down rasgueados (in reply to at_leo_87)
I have seen players do that really well. I cannot do it well also, even though i am very comfortable with abanico. If you want to do very fast rasgueado with 4-beats, you can use the following. P up, A down, I down, P down. It is a mix between abanico used by Vicente and the one used by Paco, but with 4 beats instead of 3. It is easy and goes really fast. If you control it, it is very good sounding also(Rafael Cortes uses it i think).
RE: p up, ami down rasgueados (in reply to at_leo_87)
I've been messing around with one that I really like using now for SpB or Alegrias over 3 beats like 1,2,3:
aipa ipai p ddud dudd u
It's great when the amii amii i feels too aggressive.
I never hold any fingers together for pai or p am p type stuff except for the am obviously. But there's a cool rasgueado that I mentioned somewhere else where you hold p and i together and use those up and down combined with m to get a triplet. It has a cool soft crystally effect on the trebles.
I just realized I didn't answer your question, sorry