Ailsa -> RE: Tough times with the guitar (Jul. 20 2010 10:10:34)
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Hello all, well after my big whinge a while ago I thought I'd update you, in case it helps anyone else in a crisis! First thing I did was to stop playing full pieces - I reckoned I'd got into habits that I wanted to forget so best to take a break from them and re-learn them later with better habits I thought. All I let myself play was compas of the main palos - tangos, tientos, bulerias, alegrias, solea, fandangos. That meant I could carry on playing for dance classes, so I didn't lose the habit of playing in front of people. Then I started in on right hand technique - changed my hand position, which was hell because such a habit, but now I've done it I can hear I have more control and a better tone. Now starting to work on left hand, really trying to get it accurate, because I realised lots of the buzzy notes were due to poor placing of left hand fingers. I'm doing that through a combination of exercises and libre palos, tarantas, minera, really trying to get every note clean. And I'm feeling much more positive about the whole thing [:)][:)] I don't plan on playing any performance pieces for a while yet, and I worried I would forget them all, but actually I haven't. And my hope is that when I go back to them, they will sound better than before. Will let you know how it goes.
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