guitarristamadrid -> Hardcore picado exercises (not for faint of heart) (Apr. 15 2010 3:32:26)
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Is your picado stuck? Tired of playing the same little scales for months on end without any real progress? I've seen it happen to a lot of people, myself included. This is what Entri gives to advanced students who have the time to burn and are really serious about technique. Here's a bit secret of the flamenco world: Paco, Gerardo etc are not born with crazy technique. They do **** like this. And they have to keep doing it, to maintain their level. What you see below is the equivalent to a high intensity, power-set-overload workout designed to get you over a plateau of picado. It will feel awkward as hell at first. It will burn out the muscles in your forearm. Over time it will feel like nothing and arpeggios, tremolo and picado will roll out of your right hand with so little effort you will wonder why it ever seemed so hard. But it's probably gonna take you at least 2 hours if you've never done it before. You probably won't get through the whole thing; work up to it. I did it every day for a long ass time (and I did it with both I & M and M & A picado). The first time I did the whole thing at once, it was like an awakening. Now I do the same basic thing, but over time I got to do it faster and faster, so now I added a bunch more things to it. ____________________________________________________________________________ Four patterns: one note per string (and two on 1st string), three notes climbing, three notes even, five notes even. Do each of the patterns for each of Entri's 3 chord groups. And here's something ESSENTIAL: Alternate between TIRANDO and PULSANDO. Tirando is "free stroke", pulsando is "rest stroke" or "normal picado". Do the exercise first with tirando, then pulsando. The tirando helps your fingers relax and recover. Entri says Sabicas, Paco etc practice this way. CHORD GROUP 1 One note per string, tirando. One note per string, pulsando. CHORD GROUP 2 One note per string, tirando. One note per string, pulsando. ETC Do that with all four patterns. It's around 14,000 notes Then there is the two string alternation exercise, ****, that's a whole other thing. Feel the awkwardness? Good... that means you found something you need to work on. Remember: ALWAYS ALTERNATE YOUR TWO FINGERS. There is never any point in any of these exercises where you repeat a finger. It's a lot of info, I'm probably just gonna have to make a video explaining it. OK, I'm gonna go do this myself now.
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