trivium91 -> RE: Thumb Rest Stroke VS Free Stroke in arpeggios and tremolo (Apr. 29 2024 16:27:48)
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ORIGINAL: elias Just practice it super slowly. Thumb rest stroke felt incredibly awkward and constraining for me at first but now I love it and think it's really fun. Just keep practising. Just an update guys, progress has been good but hit a snag with consistency since I noticed that my arpeggios are choppy sounding and my fingers are still catching. I also met with my classical/flamenco teacher, ironically he uses mostly rest stroke thumb so I can learn alot from him. So my rest stroke is generally ok but it is the simple fact that my fingers are not parallel to the fret board, and im not able to severely angle my wrist down to do it. That basically means my fingers are not coming off the strings nicely, and my thumb is getting in the way. It was fine with free stroke as I had more room with my fingers, but now with the rest stroke I really have to lock the hand in one position and thats where I run into issues. This is a good thing though as my teacher said I move my hand too much anyways when changing techniques, especially picado. My old position has my right leg on a foot stool, or crosslegged with the fretboard pretty level, thats how I've been playing for a long time. Well I believe that position was holding me back. The Classical position does not work as the guitar is too pointed upwards, and too far to the left which makes some techniques harder. I just tried one of the metal guitar stands with suction cups that rests it on the left leg, though I adjust it so the guitar is more in the middle of my body. It's perfect, it brings the fretboard up nice and high, though not as high as the classical position. It keeps the guitar more centred and angles the strings perfectly for my fingers. In addition my thumb now has more reach to get out of the way of my fingers, my hand position does not change as much when doing picado, I dont have to lift my shoulder completely up. After watching sabicas videos, he pretty much sits the same way as this new position im trying, though I get that way with the metal tri-stand VS a footstool on the left foot that sabicas does. Im also short like sabicas, basically 5, 6" so this might have something to do with it. This new position I would say is a hybrid of the traditional flamenco position and the classical position. As a bonus fretting on my left hand so much easier on the wrist especially with bar cords. The downside is, it does not look cool like cross legged, but who cares.
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