Ricardo -> RE: Pulgar Index Revisited (Aug. 18 2020 16:46:04)
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Basically when you play with Thumb and finger combos you want to cater to the best ami fingers orientation. That means the thumb has to be adaptable and “give up” on its ideal flamenco tone and feel in many cases. When you have a pulgar dominant melody, we necessarily switch our posture to facilitate the more aggressive flamenco tone. But if we might need to use a finger to catch the first string or something for color or ostenato, the orientation of the thumb does not permit comfortable use of the m or a finger because, if you file your nails correctly for tone, you will have edges exposed you don’t want to catch in the new thumb driven posture. Only the INDEX finger might function, and it’s for this reason a “ramp” designed for filing will run opposite the ring finger direction. Also, as mentioned golpes with a and m fingers together are used opposite pulgar accents. Lastly, most newbies to flamenco feel the opposing action of p and m “faster” and more secure for fast passages and find p i awkward. The main reason is they have the wrong concept of how pulgar is played. They are retracting the thumb even for rest stroke. They must first learn to drag the thumb across strings in rhythm. Once they got that they need to learn to sneak in the index note in between the thumb drags... so it’s a coordination thing they are missing at first. The thumb drag often corresponds to the posture change I referred to earlier as well. Then it suddenly makes sense why a or m is dumb as a substitute.
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