Ricardo -> RE: M & A Picado vs Pick (Jan. 16 2018 0:23:17)
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Well no shame in using a pick. I seriously doubt you are playing more gigs where your picado is needed more than what I have been doing. yes I might wear grooves in the nails too occoasionally, but glue and proper filing should prevent long term issue. (Once a small wear spot starts you need to file right away to prevent a groove from forming...longer you wait the more nail you lose to filing later). If you are using extra stuff on your nail (acrylic fiberglass etc) then remove it, that is why the nails get thin. Anyway, you say you play for dance and that is more the problem for your nails than picado I assure you. When playing with a pick I don’t recommend the gypsy jazz way over normal wrist style alternate picking necessarily, whatever tech you have such that you can control your speed and rhythm and tone is ideal. Problem is holding pick in mouth or whatever when playing rhythm parts. I finally gave up using a pick for Rumba gigs after many years of working on my picado instead. In that sense I also disagree picado is inferior for improvisation...I feel much more confident with i-m at this point than I ever thought I would, and can do most of what I used do with the pick anyway, plus much more. I admit my phrasing is a little different too, but not in a bad way for sure. Nuñez played a tune with Strunz and Farah, and instead of picados he makes almost the entire solo with pulgar and it’s super effective. I mix up my improvisations on rumba with pulgar phrases a good bit as well as i-m stuff. Something to think about.
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