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Dedicated Practice Routine - Technique
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heavymellow
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Joined: Nov. 18 2004
From: Santa Barbara, California
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Dedicated Practice Routine - Technique
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Hello Foro - I have devoted each morning (around 1.5 hours) to strictly technique practice, and was wondering if anyone can share their practice routine,exercises, thoughts.... I have searched the Foro, and read some great advice, but I am after actual exercises. I think devoted practice time is essential, and I have a 9 month old daughter so time is VERY valuable ( and limited..). Any youtube vids, links, etc would help tremendously as I cannot, at this time, sit with a teacher to develop a regiment. Thanks so much!
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Date Apr. 17 2014 18:33:45
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tommyberre
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From: Oslo, Norway
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RE: Dedicated Practice Routine - Tec... (in reply to heavymellow)
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I am not a big fan of doing scales and exercises, I prefer to find a musical piece that I want to learn. If I have problems with any part, I will work on those parts until I´m happy. So if you want to work on tremolo, just find a piece that features tremolo and learn the whole piece, or large chunks anyway. That way you will also learn to swap between different techniques, plus you will work on something musically interesting instead of scales etc. Btw, I do believe it is good to know a bit about scales and music theory, so if you don´t know much, I would look into it. But if you only play scales, I think you will end up sounding like a guy that plays scales, not music, if that makes sense... I usually transcribe from videos, because you can see what is going on with both right and left hand. I have Logic Pro running with a video in normal tempo, then I have VLC on slower speed (with the same video), so I can swap fast between slow and fast. Also, when working in Logic, I just set it in loop, so every time I hit space it will start from the loop start point. Big time saver for me. Cheers Tommy
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Date Apr. 23 2014 20:25:07
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Nahuel03
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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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RE: Dedicated Practice Routine - Tec... (in reply to heavymellow)
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Hi heavymellow. People here have already told you enough, but let me give you 4 or 5 more lines. I started to study Flamenco on guitar, approx two years ago. At that moment my "technique studying" consisted on boooooring exercises, to be played one after another for hours, without correlation between them (I mean, first a Picado scale, then a tremolo, etc). Now I found it useless, because, mainly, it’s completely discouraging, and also you do not get better regarding to the “aire” that a well-played flamenco piece, must have. My advice is: take 2 or 3 falsetas for every technique (or whatever you want to improve), start playing SLOW, and STRONG, every day. After weeks, you will start to enjoy your toque. I hope this words help you. Abrazo grande.
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Date Apr. 24 2014 12:50:53
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