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Ricardo -> RE: Need nail advice (Nov. 28 2023 13:16:07)
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I filed them short after i noticed that the extra length was giving more resistance to my picado.
Understood. I went through a similar thing when I was experimenting. Basically I turned my attention to improving the tone and feeling of ARPEGIO (including tremolo and other free stroke stuff), where once I got the correct shape AND LENGTH, for those things, the picado ALSO got better results. Because the string is driven THROUGH and comes to rest on the adjacent string, what we tend to allow unintentionally is to plant the string too deep into the flesh with picados, where as the arps and tremolos need to hit the “pocket” more precisely where the nail and flesh meet. The grease that Paco and others used allows the string to “slip” into this pocket more securely, or rather allows us to be a tiny bit imprecise with our planting. So when I got it together with the arps and tremolo and nail shape, I was concentrating on that precision and noticed I was not as precise with planting the picado. The thing to do is to learn it staccato which forces a sort of “preparation” where the next finger mutes the string, and what you are training is to get the finger set in the “pocket” very quick. Then the good nail shape starts getting this “crispy” attack sound and the resistance disappears.
Wish it was simpler.
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