z6 -> RE: wiggly pinky when doing arps (May 15 2014 17:40:53)
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If you guys are really serious about 'solving' this. There is a solution. But first we might want to look at some milder solutions: You could play with your eyes closed, or you could spend less time in front of the mirror. Or, you could do what I do; play in front of a mirror with my eyes closed. But before I enter the Great Pinkie Debate I must first confess that I had no idea what my pinkie was doing before I found out (because of the observations here posted) the contortions to which it was I was submitting my pinkie. Pics of people who can play calmed my fears. My pinkie sticks out and kind of curls, as if tortured, when I'm playing well and playing fast. (Fast is relative, but not to me.) However, it also crashes into my tremolo from time to time. Flamenco pinkies are good for getting bits of bacon out of one's teeth and, I'm told, can come in handy for those sniffy types who like to get excitable. Over the past thirty years I practised rsaguedo eamii and pei (is that how it's described? the triplet.) I couldn't do picado but my rasguedo while very lmited, is strong. I thought that's what Paco did. I heard about flicking and things here. I always thought that flicked sound wasn't done by flicking so I gave my fingers the Swarzenegger treatment. They (pinkies) are good for other things too but worrying about what they want to do of their own free will is another matter. Rombsix differentiates. He wants to go back to his technique as nature intended. Why not? If it is clear then it is clear. I'm not so sure about my own pinkie's intentions. But back to 'the' pinkie. I reckon my pinky feels neglected cause the other fingers get to do all the kool stuff, so he fcks up my tremolo, then I cut the bstard back to teach him a lesson. Then my rasguedo is sht so I ask him to forgive me. Relax relax relax. We all know it. But we also know there is a structure upon which this relaxation kind of 'pivots'. There is huge tension amid the relaxation. And vice versa. But the pinkie! Oh damned digit. What to do? Cut it off, no? Isn't that the samurai flamenco way? No pinkie no worries. Players without pinkies will be admired by those, in the know. This Gordian knot, assaulting this forum and inducing many to leap to their mirrors, tongues sticking out, trying to play unmannered but obsessed that we might find we are pinkiepointers, slashed in a single stroke. And the rest of us poossies, with our stickie out pinkies pleading that Tomitatito is a little gay too. We might then get to the real problem. With the pinkie buried in the garden beside the budgie would we not settle down to play some fast picado and suddenly become cold when we feel the 'phantom pinkie' back to haunt us from beyond the grave? Just kidding guys. Hope this all works out for you. (It would work, of course. And without all those endless hours of pinkie training ;-)
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