Ricardo -> RE: Substituting 4 finger to 3 finger rasgeo (Mar. 10 2010 6:11:32)
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Not sure the context of what you are learning, but becarefull when making subistitutions, because the entire point of a certain musical passage could be about developing the specific technique required. Once you have learned enough, you can make informed choices about why to one technique vs another, but if you simply can't achieve a technique, might be good at this early stage to work harder on it? Ignoring whatever the rhythm might be you are trying to make, you can smooth out your eami rasgueado patterns by practicing rhythms that go counter to the number of strokes. For example.... eami, ieam, iiea, miie, amii, i..... the second i each time was up stroke, but notice the groups of 4, a clear rhythm you can practice. If you can't feel groups of 4 in the technique, you can try to accent the 1 beat each time. Also a small group of notes is enough to work on getting it even. eami,ieam,i..........eami,ieam,i...... etc. Same concept for 3 fingers....do triplets with the 4 stroke. ami,iam,iia,mii, i...... or shorter grouping ami,iam,i.....ami,iam,i.... Over time and with metronome you can smooth it out. You can do triplet rasgueados in groups of 4 as well to achieve the same idea about eveness: paip,aipa,ipai,p.......paip, aipa, ipai, p......etc... So I feel you need to not work on this stuff super slow, you need to set some kind of medium groove to feel, because momentum often changes how it feels to do the technique. Super slow sometimes is not letting you practice the proper mechanics of certain techniques. In the case of a continuous 4 stroke 4 note rasgueado, eami,eami,eami, etc... the problem is usually occuring at the point of repeat. So reverse the rhythmic feel in order to smooth out the "seams" of repetition so to speak. ieam, ieam, ieam, ieam,i etc miea, miea, miea, miea, m....etc. Hope that helps. Ricardo
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