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devilhand -> After how many minutes (Apr. 18 2026 11:48:31)
Everyone needs proper right hand exercises before playing. When does your playing start to sound clean enough? Do you think maestros like Paco or advanced players need less time than intermediate players?

Ricardo -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 18 2026 16:11:09)
For paco he needed weed, then one Rondeña (minera or Taranta can work, free style), then a bulerías and he was good for the night. So two numbers. For me I don't play my best until I have had two gin and tonics and played at least 4 rumbas or whatever to warm up. As proof of my limitations just the other day we had a funeral for a friend...word got around I had "composed a song" for our friend...it was in fact a rather sophisticated bulería which I plan to record some day, maybe sell the tabs for it on my website etc. Well the family announced at the funeral this thing and then "gather around everyone Ricardo is gonna play the song he wrote"...oh jeeezus I was not prepared. To play that thing with arpegios etc I need at least 4 numbers and some gin. It was a DISASTER. [:D][:D] I mean career ending level if I would let it get to me psychologically.

rombsix -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 19 2026 3:29:07)
quote: It was a DISASTER. I mean career ending level if I would let it get to me psychologically. Did anyone grab a video? [:D]

devilhand -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 19 2026 9:26:39)
quote: To play that thing with arpegios etc I need at least 4 numbers and some gin. Maybe you should have played Bulerias in the style of Cepero with more pulgar-index and rasgueado sections, which is muy flamenco. I think p or pi is easier to smooth out when things get messy. quote: For paco he needed weed, then one Rondeña (minera or Taranta can work, free style), then a bulerías and he was good for the night. So two numbers. One has to include the amount of time he spend doing warm up exercises in his dressing room before a concert. Anyone noticed that Paco does warm up exercises mostly for tremolo and picado before a concert? I've seen it on youtube several times. When you think tremolo is arpegio on one string, it's clear to me why. With a tremolo warm up, your arpegio is warmed up as well. But not the other way round.

Ricardo -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 19 2026 14:35:54)
I agree that tremolos are a good warm up in general.

Auda -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 19 2026 17:09:18)
quote: I have had two gin and tonics

ernandez R -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 19 2026 18:59:13)
My ex wife said I was at my best after two gin and tonics… but at some point she started calling me metronome man. I don’t think it was a compliment :/ About five years ago I decided to do an evening event at the cool little shop where I sold my guitars, didn’t seem that big a deal at the time. I was warming up in a loft and a budy of mine comes up, he plays in a couple local Alaskan bands and offers to smoke me out outside. He knows I’m totally locked up with **** in my boots… I can’t I tell him, I’m on a FAA drug testing program as an airplane mechanic. I finely came down the stairs then did a quick Flamenco description of Palos and Compas and then did an impromptu palmas tutorial and had about 20 people clapping and laughing while I banged out some cords. I one oi you nt a split the group in two and had them clapping counterpoint. Most where local musicians so it was only mostly ugly ;) Since then I’ve been trying to play around people whenever the opertinty arises, I’m still on a FAA rendom drug testing program so still going at it cold. HR

Andy Culpepper -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 20 2026 4:11:46)
quote: My ex wife said I was at my best after two gin and tonics… but at some point she started calling me metronome man. I don’t think it was a compliment :/ Wait what are we talking about here?

Ricardo -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 20 2026 11:46:16)
quote: ORIGINAL: Andy Culpepper quote: My ex wife said I was at my best after two gin and tonics… but at some point she started calling me metronome man. I don’t think it was a compliment :/ Wait what are we talking about here? Sex drugs rock and roll, aka "flamenco". No moose have been harmed.

rombsix -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 20 2026 14:24:53)
quote: Sex drugs rock and roll, aka "flamenco". No moose have been harmed. [:D][8D]

Arash -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 20 2026 15:31:05)
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kitarist -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 20 2026 19:02:26)
Ah yes, the famous 5-string 10-tuning-peg guitar! Also, I resent the free-floating SUBMERGED ice [:D]

Ricardo -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 21 2026 11:42:26)
quote: Ah yes, the famous 5-string 10-tuning-peg guitar! Double courses, using fine moose gut, baroque style guitar.

AndresK -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 23 2026 9:03:22)
What a hilarious thread [:D] I usually need at least 15 minutes of meditation[:D] then 30 minutes of warm up with a cloth muting the strings, so the people do not hear me failing[:D] then a piece I really play decently to start the programme with, so I can **** it up just a bit. I never use alcohol because even a beer makes me play even worse than the terrible I usually play. We should also start another thread of how to overcome the feeling "I'm quitting" after hearing for the millionth time Trafalgar or similar level compositions and guitarists.[:D]

Stu -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 23 2026 9:21:44)
Sometimes I don't touch the guitar for a few days. Pick it up and immediately feel as limber and fast and accurate as I would after warming up. It's odd. not all the time but defo sometimes. maybe cos im relaxed or whatever. like some kind of perfect storm of relaxed, focused and right energy levels ..... maybe i should do a proper warm up in those moments and then id play even more awesome....ly![:D][:D]

Ricardo -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 23 2026 11:59:50)
quote: I never use alcohol because even a beer makes me play even worse than the terrible I usually play. This is of course true for all of us, but, the point is that at the very least you might FEEL good about yourself while screwing up. [:D]

devilhand -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 28 2026 9:43:47)
quote: I usually need at least 15 minutes of meditation This is a whole new level. I never meditated though.

silddx -> RE: After how many minutes (Apr. 28 2026 22:54:58)
I normally practice in the morning before 7am. But I definitely play better after doing some housework or some physical sh!t. Sometimes I hang off my chinning bar by my fingertips for as long as I comfortably can, about 40 seconds, and that helps. But in the am, everything feels more difficult.

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