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rombsix
Posts: 7808
Joined: Jan. 11 2006
From: Beirut, Lebanon
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RE: Your learning progress (in reply to devilhand)
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I started at age 16 while in high school and I took private lessons with a teacher in Beirut. I supplemented that with the Oscar Herrero Paso a Paso DVD series. During the summer break, I would practice about seven hours a day. During school / college, I would practice one hour a day. I think I peaked, technique-wise, in the first five to ten years, and I then got busier and busier so I could barely maintain or was losing technique. I think I started to sound relatively flamenco by the five-year mark. I think the most important tip is this: discipline, and to work on your weaknesses rather than get tempted to take the path of least resistance where you work on what you already do well, because if that happens, you'll have fun, but in ten years, you'll realize - "Oh crap - ten years have passed, and I've made minimal progress".
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Date Feb. 20 2021 16:29:47
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Fluknu
Posts: 151
Joined: Jan. 11 2021
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RE: Your learning progress (in reply to devilhand)
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I started 4 years ago, with a background of electric guitar. I practice about 3 hours a day. More if I can, but with work and family that's seldom the case. I second Ramzi and JasonM: every little bug, should be fixed. I find an exercice for every little unperfection. I've lost much time playing compasses and falsetas from begginning to end, thinking it was ok. When I work on the groove, that's what I do, in loop, until it's clean and groovy. For falsetas, there's always parts that bug, due to a lack of a certain technique, or the change from a technique to the other. I loop it, or create an exercise that I generalise for other chords. There's so many different techniques in a Falseta. Each is a world in itself. I've stopped learning new material 3 monts ago and only practice all the falsetas I know. And I press them like oranges and build exercises with their specificities. And I generalise them. It's sounds boring but it's not. It's a bit like in Karate kid when he has to wash the soil and windows with a special move of the hands and Arms..LOL. It's my technique at the moment.
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