a_arnold -> RE: The most difficult rasgueo? (Oct. 1 2010 1:40:45)
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Does anyone have any tips for getting this one down? Yes. Carlos Ramos taught this trick to me. And it IS a trick. Here it is: The trick is to practice moving your pinky and your index in opposite directions at the same time. You don't need a guitar for this. Practice it while you're watching tee vee. When you straighten your index, bring the pinky back toward your palm at the same time, then do the reverse (straighten pinky, bend i at the same time. While you work on making this movement natural you can ignore a and m. Let them do what they will. Concentrate on i and e. once that movement is natural, then do the rasgueado, eami but when you get to i, do this movement you have been practicing at the end. This puts e in position in time to start the next cycle without a pause, so it sounds continuous. What am I saying. It IS continuous. As continuous as the strength of your e finger will permit. This is much more tiring than many of the easier more "modern" continuous rasgueados, and you will find that trying to do it continuously for too long will tire you very quickly, which leads to a galloping effect. But it is the only rasgueado that truly repeats the same downstroke sound continuously (that is, without interspersing an upstroke, which really does sound different). It strengthens the pinky, too, thus improving your other rasgueados. When you are new to this technique, one place to do it very effectively is to play only 2 cycles with a thumbstroke on either side to make triplets on the 7-8-9-10 beats of bulerias. Do an upstroke of p on 7, then eamieami, followed by a downstroke of p on 10. It is very powerful there, and you only have to do concentrate through two cycles. I find that many of the same people who dismiss this technique as "old fashioned" are the ones who haven't been able to master it. Techniques aren't old fashioned. If that were the case, picado would be a "stone age" technique. It is music that is subject to the whims of fashion, not technique. Let me know how you progress. Ramos taught me a bunch of tricks like this.
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