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Ricardo -> RE: What happened to the "traditional" flamenco hold? (Feb. 11 2021 14:41:56)
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ORIGINAL: Cervantes
You have to hold the guitar with the inside of your right elbow and against the right leg.
The guitar should be stable without even touching it with your left hand.
Not sure if this was what he meant, the violin thing was nonsensical. But if the issue is freedom to move left hand, well there are plenty of times you can’t hold the guitar with the right elbow. When shifting between alzapua and picado for example, the elbow has to drop...and if it is during a passage where the left hand needs to move nothing feels secure.
I feel it literally as a juggling act, tossing the weight between both hands depending on the passage. I learned this from having to play in a bar stool where lifting the leg up to PDL position was not an option. It took some getting used to, and if you play some advanced music that moves like Guajiras de Lucia NOTE FOR NOTE (oh, there is a good reason lol), you make the shifting and jugging part of the song.
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