If picado doesnt win the people are lying! You are all obsessed about picado!!! xD
I think a player must have kind of balanced techniques. So all same importance. But what i see mostly is, there are plenty of players that have good picado down but all the rest is still underdeveloped. Especially strumming compas. Or they have everything nicely down but there is somehow no expression.. So my favorite flamenco techniques are compas and expression. ;P
About picado - I sort of HATE it but I also love it. It's hard to explain. The technique I get the most pleasure doing is arpeggio. So my vote goes there for now.
Definitely my favorite flamenco guitar technique is the use of pulgar and alzapua. Rasgueado (strumming compas, which is something I believe I don't have the way I want to yet) is also up there for me. Alzapua is unique and something about having a good pulgar that is so appetizing.
El Kiko -> RE: What's your favorite flamenco guitar technique? (Jan. 14 2012 17:30:57)
Favorite , yeah , it kinda depends on the moment . so if you did this same pole in a few months the results may be different , I always so tremolo a lot , because I cant do it , maybe that's why I like it , on the other hand I can be creative with arrastre and I am good at that , although I use my little finger a lot for that . At the moment I am stuck in the world of picado practice cos I have just discovered something that has brought it forward a lot for me , but i would'nt say its my favorite. I think I would go for Pulgar and Arrastre. hmm
Andy Culpepper -> RE: What's your favorite flamenco guitar technique? (Jan. 14 2012 17:32:46)
I know you want me to say pulgar.. but rasgueado is actually the technique I enjoy doing the most [:)] and it's the most impressive to me when it's done really well.
Rasgueado and tremolo, hands down. Rasgueado because one can perform it almost exclusively and sound very "flamenco," and tremolo because I think it produces the most beautiful effect of all the techniques.
Rasgueado and tremolo, hands down. Rasgueado because one can perform it almost exclusively and sound very "flamenco," and tremolo because I think it produces the most beautiful effect of all the techniques.
Thanks for the input, Bill. I think you didn't vote by ticking "Rasgueado" and "Tremolo" from the poll choices. Please do so we can get some nice statistics.
This thread turns out to be kind of interesting!! It says much about the general view about flamenco guitar. Go ahead folks. And stop lying picado isn´t your favorite!!!hehe
Its not on the list, and doesn't have a name. It's what Manuel Morao does for like every falseta and a lot of other old school players when it is done fast with tons of aggression and attitude, like an "angry beehive" of notes in compas. It is ppi,ppi, mixed with some golpes and index up and down and legato all together. Beautiful and fun, but challenging to make sound right.
Right here in the beginning, and at :54.
Here Parrilla does it a different way, but same technique. I like Manuel's better cuz it is more "crossed" an synchopated in compas, but Parrilla's is very fast and clean sounding, at 2:33
ppi,ppi, mixed with some golpes and index up and down and legato all together. Beautiful and fun, but challenging to make sound right.
One of my favorite falsetas for tientos is a nice example of this technique. Have a listen to the power and separation Cepero gets at the beginning of the falseta at 0:40.
As far as this poll. I don't think about music that way. What i like is when music is deep in the groove with a sequence of notes that pleases me. Like this guy, I enjoy this, He has escaped the BS and is rewarded.
In my opinion one technique is missing - the technique of compas!!! Besides the other techniques which causes real shivering often - the compas makes me move and jump off my chair sometimes, from discipline to high spirits in one second...[:D]
I simply love the way flamencos play the guitar compared to classical guitarists. In classical guitar my favourite aspects is the music itself, the melodies and compositions, take Barrios e.g. and lots more, to me some of the best music there is. But the way flamencos use the techniques like pulgar or picado or just strumming is so special for me, you feel the soul and energy and power. Some tremolos make me cry and... I stop now cause it would end in a novel if talking more...
