turnermoran -> RE: Picado planning (Dec. 1 2011 18:14:46)
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Flo - you hit it on the head. I agree that when you start to have string crossing, picados take on another level of difficulty. Especially if you have, say, the i finger hitting the first string and the m finger hitting the second string. And for a concert I would never intentionally choose to play a passage the more difficult way. But I have encountered numerous teachers and seen in books that this particular problem is addressed with various exercises meant to render this problem as inconsequential. And a few months ago, there was an Acoustic Guitar magazine that had a PdL highlight. In it, the author transcribed a passage from a Solea in which Paco played an arpeggio type picado with all i and m, crossing strings like mad in the most awkward of ways. The author states that Paco spent so much time practicing his picado that it was all the same to him. Granted, there's only one PdL, but that's the nature of my question here: Do people practice picadoa of all sorts that the starting finger becomes irrelevant, or, do guitarists here end up with 100 picados in their mind, each one with a specific starting finger. As a musician - a human one with limits - I'm accepting that the latter may be necessary for me, but i know I make better music when I'm not thinking about every finger on every sixteenth note of the whole piece
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