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rombsix -> It took five years to happen (Nov. 26 2006 9:11:02)
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Hola mis amigos,
It was around midnight the other day, and I was practicing the famous i-a-i (with golpe) Chicuelo technique. I kept on going, over and over and over. It started to get a little more solid, and faster. I had just realized a week from then that I had just hit the five-year mark on being a guitarist (first year classical, last four flamenco). It occurred to me: what is up with all those nail-care threads that everyone keeps reading and commenting on? Why was nail care so important? I had been playing for five years, and NEVER had any of my nails hardly gotten chipped or cracked. I once asked members of the foro if I had bionic nails, and the answer was YES. It was just not normal for someone to go on playing for that long a time and not have a SINGLE nail problem. Well, I guess I was the victim of my own self-envy, as I was going on with that i-a-i-golpe on and on and on and it finally happened. I felt something snagging on the strings. It was weird. I started looking at the strings but found nothing jutting out or wrong with them. It then occurred to me. What if it was the dreaded nail problem everyone talks about? I had a look at my A finger, and there it was. A crack that had gone into the nail about 2 mm deep. I had been saying to myself when I was playing that my A nail was too long, and that it was snagging onto the strings. But it was midnight, and I just wasn't in the mood to go and file it down. Well, I guess I paid the price. I had to file it down all the way. It was way shorter than all the other nails, and thus made it annoying when I played (especially when using that technique in tarantas where you play and arpeggio and then drag the A finger from high E to low E across all six strings - what is that called by the way?) The moral of the story is: never be careless enough not to file down a "too-long" nail. And one more thing: I am now a believer that I no longer have this gift of bionic nails. I just hope this incident is not one of many I will come across from now on.
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