z6 -> RE: Picado. New to guitar and flamenco (Sep. 25 2012 23:55:21)
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Play a chromatic scale til your right hand burns, then say it's all about training your mind. It's not. Regards, Jeff Jeff, I'm not rying to be cute but what burns when you play chromatic scales? I almost never play them. I hate them. But what burns? Is it the tips of the fingers or the joints, the back of the hand, what? Picado feels, to me like tapping. Almost like hammering down on the string. There's a nice feeling of potential in it. But my hand never burns, ever. Are you talking about going super fast? Because I can't do that. I tend to be of the 'mind' school here as well, but I'm not super fast or anything. It seems to me that 'getting' a picado is the tough part. Impossible for me for many, many years, but once one has it then it does seem to all be in the bonce. One might say that over years I've built up strength, but that's not how it happened. I only made progress when I started to play without nails (I had a hook). Then, at Ricardo's suggestion, I grew them, filed them flat across and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, I applied glue. Then the magic happened. Bip bip bip. All in the mind. In fact, I'm so used to not being able to play fast and clean and controlled for long runs I have to devise ways to convince myself to accept that it's really happening. An actual picado that increases in speed of its own accord. But now that it's there, it's the ease, the feel of it that matters. It's a wonderful feeling of power and control. It's such a lovely feeling I sometimes do it for hours and hours. (Please, no monkey spanking jokes) The end joint on my index can hurt a little bit but that's all. No burning. I don't think analysis in these matters is helpful at all. We give ourselves too many bum steers on these things. Glue, filing, bip. It's so easy. It only took me thirty years to get to the stage of a proper beginner.....
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