sorin popovici -> RE: technique, technique, technique... (Dec. 3 2005 11:52:49)
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well ....just decided not to practice for a while ...like I use to.I have some exams, and I looked and looked to Nunez video ...and I cant believe.I believe his i,m picado speed ...but m,a and i,a picado speed and accuracy ..that's too much. Not to mention ...I thought I had some arpeggios ...I'm wrong again(tired to be wrong all time).I can do pima arpeggios fast and pimami ...but not very fast pami (especially when p and a are on the same string). The single thing I'm satisfied is tremolo , but even there ...there are some things like when u have to piami things 4422 .In tremolo nunez has this little run in the middle of a tremolo 0,1,3,1 ...and u do it with p,i,a,m,i cause you're in a middle of a tremolo section (u have to do it fast and tirando ..so that will have the sound of a tremolo). My alzapua is pretty slow and not usable at buleria speed but here and in the rasgueados section i'm not very ambitious. But all this could be ok....if my left will be more relaxed.It seems like I cant do a proper 4,3,2,1 on a single string right.This drives me crazy, I hate this exercise. So here ...I would like some advices on streches and things like that.The problem is in my 2nd and 3rd finger .Also could be my 4th finger.Either way ....I dont know what to do and though i stretech my fingers every day ...and it worked for a while,still..I hate it when u feel incomfortable playing simple things.So please here I need help. Ok , for the right hand ...I have these patterns for picado .Like scales on thirds ... c,d,e d,e,f e,f,g (back an fourth) etc. Second scales with four notes c,d,e,f d,e,f,g e,f,g,a .. etc.Now, the one in thirds ... I accentuate Ta,ta,ta (to sound right...u'll find that because the cycle is a number of odd beats(3 is an odd number) ,u are always forced to accentuate one beat with i and the next beat with m.This is good, cause it will train your right hand to hit (like nunez said) the notes ..with the same force). The four notes pattern u can accentuate in many ways ..so accentuate where u need to. Expand to quintuplets, 7-tuplets....(yeah ...I know ,this is super hard ..cause u cant play in position ...u have to move a little (I dont do 5-tuplets,or 7.. but it's evident u can expand )). Now, I dont do this very well...but another good one is this...combine all these patterns ..using metronome...switch between triplets (c,d,e...etc) to 16th (c,d,e,f). Next , u can actually aply all this to whatever scale u want ..maybe u hate C major. So find a diminished scale...or a whole tone scale ,or a minor one.And move these exercises through the neck a little.(I have so many advices...but I'm ashamed to admit that I mostly practice C dim and C major.I stole the fingerings from a Joe Pass book, cause he has fingerings like in flamenco .I mean I observed that in Flamenco u do c ,d,e on a single string with 1,3,4 fingers and not with 1,2,4 like people do in rock). Hope this helps for picado ...and dont forget I need much advices on my problems with the left hand fingers 2,3 (and 4 I believe).Some good stretches.I know i need it I have this example for demonstrating why I need it.I'm friend with a guy that plays with a pick but sometime ago he tried fingerstyle.He tried H.Villa Lobos etude no.1 (the guy is a speed picker...really really frightening ..kind of like Todd).If u know HVL etude no.1 there are some legatos in that piece 11h12 on high e string,11h12 on b string,11h12 on g string.Now, in the score says ...do this with finger 1 and 2.Well he does that at super speed with the fingers 3 and 4.Now,try it ...eventually learn that phrase from that piece.Though it's a simple example ...I find it hard to do it with 3 and 4 fingers.Any ideas? Now, I forgot to say.But my 2nd question is this? when I do scales with m,a ....what shall I do with the index finger.Nunez has it very stucked to the m finger?This is what shall I do? Now, as u observed I had only two questions...so please answer...I will not adress anymore questions.I hope some of the big players here ,can answer me to these questions. To resume 1.What shall i do to stretch better and have better 2nd ,3rd and 4th finger? 2.When doing scales with m,a what shall i do with the index finger?(many posibilities here shall i keep on the air behind the m and a fingers, or in the air in front of m and a? Or not keeping it in the air ,and keep it stucked to the m finger?) Please answer or I'll need money for a shrink or smth in the near future.
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