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flybynight -> hi everyone (+ picado question) (Aug. 14 2009 11:55:28)
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Post #1! Hi everyone,
Great to find some of my favourite youtube players here taking time out to help out with advice, especially for us noobies. Lots of different opinions help so much.
The first time I saw a flamenco guitar piece was PDL (youtube search PACO DE LUCIA - rumba), and i fell off my chair. Never heard anything like it. And so the journey began to try and learn to play myself. Let's just say it's taking a bit longer than expected, but it's become and nice healthy obsession. In comparison to other possibilites..
I had been trying to learn flamenco for about a year and a half.. technique all wrong, then I got an excellent teacher (Ramon Ruiz in london), and things are coming along a lot better. (not good enough to post [:)] ) Still basic problems with consistency of compas etc, which is something only I can practice learn for myself. So I'm still a beginner really. If I'm horribly honest (enough to play back recordings of myself).
On Picado, to get that stacatto bip-bip-bip, I've learned(?) that a lot of this is in the right hand, in the sense that when doing alternate IM strokes on a single string, while the I finger hits the string above to complete the I note, the M swings up at the same time ready to play, deadening the string, meaning the note doesn't last a moment longer than needed (as ToddK suggested.. silence is the rule, punctated with notes). Faster, this looks like fingers 'walking' on a single string.
But thinking about the left hand, after the note is played (I or M), should the finger be lifted slightly so the string leaves contact with the fret - which also has the effect of deadening the note ? And so it's the combination/synchronisation of the left and right hands deadening the notes that brings good bip-bip technique. Or am I obsession too much here / this isn't practically possible at speed, and should just focus on the right hand.
At playing at normal speed, I don't suppose the above matters much, but for practicing really slowly .. ?
Thanks everyone, and nice to be here!
Jon.
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