Ricardo -> RE: Picado techniqe - Straight knuckles ... or drive with the knuckle (Jul. 10 2013 15:24:24)
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ORIGINAL: Miguel de Maria Ricardo, what do you mean by the relaxed tip joint? Are you referring to Shearer's older books, where he directs the student to have his tips relaxed like paintbrushes. In his later books, he abandons this idea. (not that I think Shearer's ideas are of any particular value). The tip joint of the middle finger has always been a bit of an enigma for me. I always used to try to keep it stiff because I heard that Manolo Sanlucar said to. But that doesn't really work well for me. Now when my rest strokes break down, it is always the m tip joint stiffening or not relaxing enough. I see a lot of good players where it almost appears that it's permanently hyperextended, although that doesn't seem physically possible. For me, it seems I have to prepare (using the knuckle joint), which causes the tip to slightly straighten, then the middle joint takes over and kind of sweeps through. To put it simply the tip joints should not be curled like when doing arpegio. That means they need to be straightened. A touch of hyper extension is ok so long as your tips are not floppy, or if you are double jointed as they say where they bend all the way back. That won't work, or rather it will slow you down a bit as it takes time for the finger to bend back. IN that sense Manlolo Sanlucar advice is right on. If you watch vicente amigo do arpegio he does a unique rest stroke arpeggio where his tip joints acually come dangerously close to hyper extending too far (A-M-I patterns only). He gets a nice sound out of it and manages the speed and timing just fine, but I can imagine the difficulties for students with similar joints. Oddly when he does picado proper, he is able to keep the tip joint from bending as far, a good example of what I am talking about. Ricardo
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