Ricardo -> RE: Pulgar (Mar. 26 2014 18:20:21)
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If you can get your hands on Gerardo Nuñez Encuentro DVD, he spends a good half hour teaching only pulgar techniques. It certainly ends up being personal after lots of experiment, but for me Gerardo has one of the coolest sounding and most recognizable pulgar techniques in the biz. About shape, I would say the vast majority will file off that edge in the red circle of your picture, such that there will be times when doing arpegios with pulgar over close the the soundhole (hand held flat thumb sticking out to the side), that only a tiny bit or even NO nail at all is contacting the bass string. That is ok. Obviously we get more straight on when doing alzapua or passages of only pulgar and the sound necessarily changes. I agree tomatito gets exaggerated with the perpendicular angle, and after all I don't think he gets as nice a tone with that as Gerardo, Paco, and many others. Actually, there is that famous old video where he has a dark green colored cement on his thumb nail, and he is getting a better sound IMO with THAT than his normal natural nail sound, as on Encuentro video etc.
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