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String crossing
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Norman Paul Kliman
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Joined: Dec. 5 2023
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RE: String crossing (in reply to devilhand)
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If by “string crossing” you mean moving striking-hand fingers to a string that hasn’t been played yet, and if by “increasing and decreasing” you mean ascending and descending, there’s no trick or single way to do it, in my opinion. Once you’ve developed picado and are comfortable with it, the only real difficulty is having to move to a lower-pitched string with your middle finger, and the only effective way to overcome that difficulty is to get used to it. I call this the “awkward fingering” in the picado exercises on my website: http://canteytoque.es/pmiexc.htm#picado (see Exercise 8). Most of the time, you can avoid the problem by starting with index or middle in order to have your index available to play the “new” lower-pitched string, but some melodic lines will force you to use the awkward fingering, so it’s best to just get used to it. If you spend some time playing Exercise 8 starting m-i, it will eventually become just as easy as it is starting i-m. Of course, tomorrow it’ll be just as hard as before, but you’ll probably warm up to the idea a little more quickly. Three steps forward, two steps back.
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