kitarist -> RE: Picado-cross early or late? (Oct. 18 2017 17:02:47)
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ORIGINAL: Miguel de Maria Yeah, a picado post! Most scale runs have an awkward crossing, where i has to reach up or m has to reach down. It usually tends to be the hardest part of the run for that reason. By varying whether you start on i or m, that crossing will be in a different place. How do you choose where to put it? I seem to like to finger the crossing late, but I wonder if that's such a good idea. Yes, you get the speed and rhythm going fast, but you also leave the hardest part at the end, where you might not be paying as much attention. Anyone have any insights into how the best guitarists do this? I am sure the regulars will give you a much more comprehensive (and informed?) reply, but FWIW, after experimenting this way and that way, I came to the conclusion that I just have to strive to learn to cross any which way it comes and not try to adjust in general (maybe in special cases when flipping the starting point results in all crossings becoming "nice"). I realize this is maybe a frustrating advice, but I'd say try to practice awkward crossings to the point where they don't seem a big deal anymore. As to timing - I don't know. When you practice an awkward crossing by itself it comes "early" in the scale run (since it is the only thing you are practicing). So you are probably encountering it both early and late and thus getting experience with both. More generally, it seems like maybe a bit too much is made out of the instances when a fingertip-string setup deviates from the "ideal". It is not really mentioned much for tremolo, for example(*), even though both "i" and "a" there have deviated from their usual setup due to "ami" being on one string. I think it helps to strive for finger control to the point of being able to execute naturally on the string, the one "in front"(down), and the one "behind"(up). (*) Single-string picado is actually another example - either "i" or "m" or likely both have had to adjust in their approach to the string a bit in order to be able to execute on a single string. The angle and setup of each fingertip with respect to the string is slightly different than the "canonical" or ideal one.
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