Doitsujin -> RE: Rasgueado question... (Feb. 28 2010 12:19:00)
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What would you say is the "normal" time it would take to learn the rasgueado technique? I think I learned it unnaturally fast. Ok, let us see your rasguados. ;.) There are many different rasguados each one takes its time to develop and when you can hit em, it still doesnt mean that you can use them correctly. Rasguados go hand in hand with compas feeling which you also need to develop. If you have both fluently with spontaneous improvisation, than you mastered rasguado IMO. For me it took some years to get rasguados + compas into my body. And I played 5 days a week every day 2-4 hours for dance. I think that is an essential absolutely necessary aspect in learning rasguados and compas. I saw many guitar-players who never played for dance but have all the techniques of the flamenco guitar more or less fluently. They all lacked compas without exceptions.. I think I can see immediately when looking at rasguados, if one got experience with playing for dance or not. 99,9% of the people who never played for dance completely fail rasguados. Well,..there are of course also people who played a long time for dance but cant use rasguados... These people would be the "false negative" fraction in my judgement. I doubt that there are any guitarists who learned it perfectly without playing for dance. Thats simply not possible regarding my experience. Why do I write that? I made also some experiances with my own playing... Around 2-3 years ago I thought..Man...Im playing good. And today I watch my videos..and I know.. no sir..you didnt play good. You had the feeling you were a complete player but it took time to understand that you are still a beginner. Thats no joke.. Dont fool yourself. Stay objective. Another examly is a friend of mine. He always played a Granainas of Paco Serrano. He one time said..when Im warmed up, I can play it 100% accurate perfectly. And he belived in his words. To be honest, it was very bad how he played it. Warm and even worser with cold fingers. But in his head it was perfect. Thats a difficult thing to rate your own playing. IMO its almost not possible except you film yourself and watch it after some time. Than you see the truth. Flamenco is very hard..so fasten your seatbelt. The truth will hit you hard to the ground in most of the cases. So.. How did you learn rasguados? [:D] Back to your question..I think it takes too long.. [:(] I woulnt try to learn it again if I would know from the beginning on how difficult it is..
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