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Mark2 -> RE: Picado and hand size. (Feb. 19 2014 20:36:48)
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I can't discount your experience since your picado is so good, but when listening to recordings and seeing top artists like Paco and Vicente, it's pretty clear there is a reaction in the audience when a player does a fast solid picado that is also musically relevant. My opinion is that it remains the most anticipated technique and the most appreciated, but only when it's surrounded by good music played by a good musician. I agree it's often overused and becomes less effective. Would you say that playing fast lines with a pick has the same musical value as with fingers? Maybe it's just guitar players, but for me fast lines with a pick are done all the time by thousands of players, some more musical than others, but picado has a different sound and that makes a huge difference to me.
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ORIGINAL: Grisha
You can draw parallels between musical performance and human narration. Would you like every actor to speak clearly with beautiful voice and great diction at all times?
Also, I would like to say a couple of words about picado... I think it only matters to guitarists and is solely appreciated by them. To the general public melodies, harmonies and dynamics are way more important, and rasgueado, alzapua, tremolo and such usually impress the audience way more.
I can't stand many of contemporary recordings that overuse picado. If these picado monsters use it for effect, then it would be much more effective to only use it once or twice in a piece, as a climax.
And why should all flamenco players use index and middle fingers to play picado? You use picado as a musical line or rhythmical figure, right? Then why not use 3 fingers to play it? I say, if you can get the same sound as with 2 fingers... go for it! There is no cheating when you put music above technique.
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