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Im trying to achieve the ability to do picado scale runs through different chord progressions when imrpovising. So doing these runs I just do scale runs up and down wich is really boring. Any advice to spice up my picado runs would be very helpful Ive seen a few from florian but didnt help much with playing in key or what ever Like when and where to use hammer on pulloffs to make it sound more interesting? What scale patterns to use to make it longer? Any help thanks!
Hi Reinhardt There must be hundreds of patternes to improve picado. Personally I find some of the old Paco and Manolo sanlucar falsetas some of the best exercices for picado and they are useful too. I got bored of stright up and down major scale too so I invented this exercise a couple of years ago to make the scale longer and more interesting. The great thing here is you dont have to learn any new left hand positions and you can concentrate on your picado. I have written down the whole pattern . lets say you are playing a scale of G major. The run ascends the first 2 strings and then descends in alternate notes, the run now repeats to the 4th string and descends to the 5th, then up to the 3rd etc. The final desceding run is all alternate notes. The tricky part is the change from 3rd to 2cd string...practice slowly. Its all m,i m,i picado. I start my picado runs with m but it doesnt matter too much. Repeat the scale up the fingerboard a fret at a time......
P.S. the lines are not bar lines. They just divide where the finger pattern repeats otherwise its just a lot of numbers.
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Try these. They are por solea. Not a good angle at first but it changes after. The last one is a b melodic minor ascending and descending which you can use different patterns. YOu can do in 2's , triplets and sixteenth notes
Buy Estudio Tecnico de la Guitarra Flamenca Vol.1 by Manuel Granados. It has tons of exercises covering picado-arps-tremelo, enough to last you a lifetime.
I think that using m,a is a good warmup before going to i,m. The reason being I think the right hand is going to feel more responsive and more prepared. (m-up, a-down, m-down or a-down, m-down, m-up triplet rasgueados are pretty good warmups too.)
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i.e what is the value of practicing scales with m,a when your in relity going to use more i, and m ?
Lately I've been practicing the modes in the most typical keys in flamenco, especially in a bar position, then improvising in compás, for example solea por buleria, a melody Dm - C - A# - A or F - Gm - A# - A or G7 - C7 - F7 - A#7 - A.
You shouldn't try to re-invent the wheel. The more simple falsetas you know, the more intuitively you'll be able to do this. I'd say that's what you should try rather than a bunch of scale exercizes.
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I think that using m,a is a good warmup before going to i,m. The reason being I think the right hand is going to feel more responsive and more prepared. (m-up, a-down, m-down or a-down, m-down, m-up triplet rasgueados are pretty good warmups too.)
then thats what ill do ,
Ricardo has a huge point , i m a jazzer, and love to help, What progressions man , playing Jazz is a different kettle of fish
picado through chord progressions ------out line the changes the hardest Flamenco (Harmonically would be the easiest to improv over.
Well, i dont wanna go into much detail of what chord progressions ect. . cuz i dont realy play flamenco and dont want a 5 page discussion about it again :) but just basic chord progressions like Am Gmaj Fmaj Emaj stuff like that and just do fast runs through the chord progression. But i find that legato runs works good but its really hard on the fingers to get this technique down and get a clear sound of the pulloffs. But all the replies was helpful so far thanks guys!
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