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Picado planning
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Picado planning
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Yes: I find the best way early on and practice it that way always |
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No: I practice many ways and let nature take its course |
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I don't think about it |
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I always start every picado on the same finger, no matter what |
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turnermoran
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Joined: Feb. 6 2010
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RE: Picado planning (in reply to Florian)
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Flo - you hit it on the head. I agree that when you start to have string crossing, picados take on another level of difficulty. Especially if you have, say, the i finger hitting the first string and the m finger hitting the second string. And for a concert I would never intentionally choose to play a passage the more difficult way. But I have encountered numerous teachers and seen in books that this particular problem is addressed with various exercises meant to render this problem as inconsequential. And a few months ago, there was an Acoustic Guitar magazine that had a PdL highlight. In it, the author transcribed a passage from a Solea in which Paco played an arpeggio type picado with all i and m, crossing strings like mad in the most awkward of ways. The author states that Paco spent so much time practicing his picado that it was all the same to him. Granted, there's only one PdL, but that's the nature of my question here: Do people practice picadoa of all sorts that the starting finger becomes irrelevant, or, do guitarists here end up with 100 picados in their mind, each one with a specific starting finger. As a musician - a human one with limits - I'm accepting that the latter may be necessary for me, but i know I make better music when I'm not thinking about every finger on every sixteenth note of the whole piece
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Date Dec. 1 2011 18:14:46
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turnermoran
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RE: Picado planning (in reply to ToddK)
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TK: While that may be good advise, the same question applies to the most basic of picados. I have spent years working on my picado, so it's not that I don't know which finger to start on. If I play a picado as part of something larger that is all pre-planned, I'll usually find the best fingering, and go with that. But if I'm improvising, the alternate fingering may come into play. But I don't practice every single thing with this level of detail. Maybe I should. But it's awfully time consuming. So maybe the essence of my question is whether or not people are playing flamenco with an improvisational component, or more like classical music where every move is planned out. My main curiosity is for the improvisational, because I think you can improvise - even if it's just inserting different falsettas - and commit to one way of fingering, or you can leave it open. ....Or not. That's really my question. So tk: as a teacher and/or player, what do you tell your students for the most basic of picados? "always start this picado on m, because it lays better?" "practice both ways but plan on playing it only one way?"
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Date Dec. 1 2011 21:33:45
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