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Long time lurker here, and I finally have a question I couldn't find an answer to using the search function.
It seems that three fingers is probably the more "modern" rasgueado approach. I learned four finger rasgueados and am trying to expand my vocabulary. There are clearly many ways to do a four beat rasgueado with three fingers, and I have figured out a couple variations for a single five beat - i up a down m down i down i up feels most natural to me.
But, I cannot figure out how to string multiple five beats together? How do you do it?
RE: Three finger 5 beat rasgueado (in reply to Kirk)
one variation i came across in something (i cant remember what i was learning at the time) was to do i down i up then a down m down and i down
i cant be sure its good advice though, im a beginner, but it feels "right"
this one was putting a golpe on the first beat. sorry i cant remembmyer what i was practicing when i learned this, i think its in one of the books i have
quote:
e↑ a↑ m↑ i↑ i↓
im practicing that one in sevillanas and tangos, im finally getting better at doing it twice next to each other to make 10 beats
RE: Three finger 5 beat rasgueado (in reply to Kirk)
quote:
I have figured out a couple variations for a single five beat - i up a down m down i down i up feels most natural to me.
But, I cannot figure out how to string multiple five beats together? How do you do it?
first, what do you mean by "beat"?? a five beat rasgeo, is that one that goes on for 5 beats of music or one that has five finger strokes (eg. xamii)?
if you mean 5 finger strokes per beat of music, you can just use the 4 finger xamii one for that.... you don't have to ditch the "old" version and exclusively adopt the "new" one, you add in the new and keep the old as well, that's my understanding of so-called "modern" flamenco anyway, it's not instead of so-called "old" flamenco, it's as well as!
if you really want to do 5 finger strokes per beat with 3 fingers you could do:
1 2 3 & amiia miiam i i
where each pair of i strokes are down then up, use this for solea, repeat for beats 4, 5, 6 etc.
or you could do something like
1 2 3 4 amiia miiam iiami iamii
then you are back to the start of the pattern again
even if you don't actually use it like this (if i want to play 5 per beat i just use xamii) it's probably not a bad exercise to practise these
RE: Three finger 5 beat rasgueado (in reply to marduk)
quote:
ORIGINAL: marduk
one variation i came across in something (i cant remember what i was learning at the time) was to do i down i up then a down m down and i down
i cant be sure its good advice though, im a beginner, but it feels "right"
this one was putting a golpe on the first beat. sorry i cant remembmyer what i was practicing when i learned this, i think its in one of the books i have
quote:
e↑ a↑ m↑ i↑ i↓
im practicing that one in sevillanas and tangos, im finally getting better at doing it twice next to each other to make 10 beats
Another good exercise for this is to play it twice, but make it 3 triplets with a downbeat at the end. I do this when I play Garrotin.
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