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For a while I've been a bit puzzled why my Soleares rasgueados seem to sound different from many I hear in recent videos.
After doing a slow analysis it dawned on my feeble 77 year-old brain that I was actually only using TWO fingers; i and a! So my regular Soleares rasgueado is: i (down) a (down) i (down) and i (up). Produces a nice crisp 'rat-ta-tat-ta' sound, with good separation between the strikes, without clenching the fingers (which I never did, and still can not do).
I must have originally learnt this in Spain back in the 1950's, as those were the only lessons I ever had. Do any of you guys out there use this same rasgueado sequence, using just two fingers? Is it in common use today?
Please don't ask me to record or post a video/sound file, whatever; as I have no idea how to do that. (Much as I wish I could. . .)
I must have originally learnt this in Spain back in the 1950's, as those were the only lessons I ever had. Do any of you guys out there use this same rasgueado sequence, using just two fingers? Is it in common use today?
Yes although in many other varied combinations AND mixed in with occasional m stroke or p etc. i up, a down, i down is a standard gallop for many basic compases
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