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Picado very bad without warm up
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Joined: Nov. 7 2007
From: Wisconsin
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RE: Picado very bad without warm up (in reply to ertwin)
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I think its great to have big goals but trying to play like Paco isn't a realistic one if you ask me. He started when he was a kid and practiced 12 hours a day. One of the vids you posted shows him after 40 years of playing. Even the best need to warm up. Opera singers warm up, first chair violinists warm up, everyone warms up. I don't think its uncommon to feel like you are not playing correctly until you have run a few scales and chord progressions. Perhaps you need to think about slowing down in order to go faster. What I'm saying is work on technique first then speed will come. Being fast and sloppy is worthless in my opinion as it serves no purpose. It will just sound rushed and frenetic. Are you using a metronome for practice? If not you really need to incorporate it in your daily practice. I start with my metronome to 84bpm and play a scale, using quarter notes first, one note per beat and I repeat. I won't move on to eighth notes or two notes per beat until I can successfully play the phrase 6 times in a row with out a mistake. Then on to triplets and I also count it out loud. One,Two,Three; One,Two,Three notes per beat and then I go ahead and play 6 times without error before I move on to sixteenth notes. When I can successfully play each interval then I speed up the metronome. The nice thing is the metronome does not lie, you cannot fake it, either you're on or you not. Give it a couple of weeks and see how much cleaner and truly faster you become... Sig--
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