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ORIGINAL: Miguel de Maria

This is a deeper question than it appears IMO. You said if it was technically better, but sometimes it is a musical thing. For example, in classical music, there is a concept that the endings of notes are just as important as the beginning. Much of the art of CG is muting basses that are ringing and shouldn't be. Also, often you can easily recognize the underlying chord pattern ("grip") but you _shouldn't_ play it as a grip, but put the fingers down as they are needed. This helps keep the voices distinct, conserves energy, and helps legato.

In technical terms, I have never really felt leaving fingers down helped me. For example, if I were playing a chromatic lick 1234, I don't really like to hold down and keep down each note, I tend to lift the notes as the next note is played.

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This is a deeper question than it appears IMO. You said if it was technically better, but sometimes it is a musical thing.

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ORIGINAL: Erik van Goch

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ORIGINAL: Filip

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all the other notes are covered by my pinky while the index and 3th finger remain posted.

-----------------3--5p--6p-
-----3--5p--6p-------------
--5--------------------------
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Your picado with pinky only is crazy :) I would do it with the 2nd finger on the 3rd string, and would use both 3rd and 4th finger for the picado.

Yeah, it kind of is isn't it :-). One of the reasons i play it like that (aside that it somehow feels "natural" to me) is that previously i play this chord:

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---8------- pinky
---7------- 3th finger
---5------- barre
--(5)------
---7------- 2th finger

which already has the same line up of fingers in the 5-th position. So rather then moving that 2-th finger from 6-th string to 3-th string (during the split second i slide back from 5-th to 3-th position) i favor to use the same finger setup in both chords which allows me to slide back the barre finger and the 3-th finger while keeping contact with the string. This gives me the first notes "for free" and in return i settle for the fact the pinky is the only remaining finger to cover the 5-th and 6-th fret. The 3-th finger stays fretted to "ease" that action and is only lifted after my pinky reached it's final note. Then, while the pinky and the barre index stay posted, the 3-th finger is finally lifted to play the next chord...

--6--- pinky
--5--- 3th
--3--- barre
--5--- 2th
--3--- barre
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So although pretty crazy when looking at the isolated phrase, it does have a certain logic considering what precedes and follows it, on top it's the way i tend do deal with things anyway :-).

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ORIGINAL: Ruphus

I remember Paco de Lucia saying something to the extent of: "We don´t press down the strings anymore, but just tap them lightly for just as long as the note needs to be".

Before that I used to think that staying on the fretboard and swapping individual fingers would be best. Since the time that I gave up on it, having fingers floating over the board as poise, more over engaging wrist and base of hand to comfort fingers reaching target, my left hand seems more relaxed and undeterred so to say.

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ORIGINAL: Ruphus

Keeping the left hand on the fretboard for as much as possible while directing single fingers around, to me seems not the most inviting way to enable relaxation.

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ORIGINAL: Ruphus

Keeping the left hand on the fretboard for as much as possible while directing single fingers around, to me seems not the most inviting way to enable relaxation.

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ORIGINAL: Ruphus

What I meant regarding chords, was changing them while leaving whatever finger on the board that reserves a retained note, separately moving the others. And with solo basically the same in so far that any finger which does not need switching position shall stay in place.

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ORIGINAL: callemunicion

Hello, I know this is an old topic but I've another nerdy technique question.
What do you thing about this thing:
(Bulería)
E
B-------------------0
G------0-----------1
D2h3----3--------2
A ------------------------- repeat
E--------------0

Is it better to keep the 2nd finger down?

Or this: (por solea)
E--1-------1-------1---1
B-----1-------1--1-----1
G2-------4-------------4p2-0
D--------------------------------3--2
A
E

Is it better to keep the 2nd and the 4th finger on the fretboard?
I know this is a bit a silly, but I don't really know what to do because the two ways are possible for me. In the first example I would prefer to keep the 2nd finger on the fretboard and in the second one I would move just because it feels better, don't know why..