Piwin -> RE: Finger stretch (Mar. 10 2020 13:44:08)
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[8D] I was just making a stupid joke. My hands are actually on the small side (and so is my [8|]) More seriously, I think if you can do a full barré on 1st fret and reach 5th fret with your pinky, and a full barré on 3rd fret and reach 7th fret with your pinkie, then you're good to go for the vast majority of things that'll come up in flamenco. I don't think there's that much need for more extensive stretches with a huge amount of frets in between. There are other things though that come up often and aren't easy on the hands. For instance certain sections played above, say, 10th fret can be particularly challenging, especially when there are things like partial barrés involved. Or playing those alzapua bits where you have i on 4th fret but x and a on 3rd fret, those can be rather uncomfortable when you're starting out, though honestly that one ends feeling natural fairly quickly. The one I really struggle with is when m is on a higher string and a on a lower string. Fortunately it doesn't really come up in flamenco. But, for instance, in Cacho Tirao's version of Pajaro Campana, there's a part where m is on 2nd string 10th fret, and a is on 6th string 12th fret. I can't make that. I can reach the 12th fret with a but I just can't clear the strings with enough of an arc to not mute all the other strings. It's not a "horizontal stretch" in the sense that it's just 2 frets apart, but goddamn it's hard ^^ Anyway, that's just me. edit: as a sidenote, the Javier Conde course on onlineflamenco.net is particularly good for left-hand work. I've had my misgivings about them because of their radical change in pricing last year and what I felt to be a lack of assurances for customers (having a look just now it seems that the course is now down to 200 euros. I guess there's something interesting to say about economics when the exact same product goes from 60 to 400 and then back to 200 in a single year...), but the content is very good (though I wouldn't recommend that course for beginners. It's really hard on the left hand).
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