rombsix -> RE: Advice needed for n00b guitarrista (Dec. 30 2007 20:50:13)
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Hey Tim! Whazzaaaaaaaaaaaaap?! (Sorry, just remembered that Scary Movie thing, LOL!) 1- I think you've got it wrong with regards to the four-finger tremolo. The way I see it, you're getting fooled by the natural movement of the pinky with the ring finger, which may look like a four-finger tremolo, but actually is not. You see, there's an interdigitation between the ring and pinky fingers' tendons that forces the pinky to move (anatomically, that is) when the ring does. Trying to uncouple this would be a way of disturbing the natural way of movement, and only leads to strain and injury. The point of this is that you can (with lots of practice) learn to play an i-a-m-i three-finger tremolo that sounds very smooth, with time. There are other tremolos (like the one Manolo Sanlucar does in Oracion) that sound cool to, and you might find that practicing these will make the i-a-m-i easier to perform. The most important thing is to try and make the notes as evenly spaced as possible, and the only way to achieve that is via a metronome. 2- There's nothing wrong with playing as many different scales and modes as you can when practicing picado. I find that with picado, the rule is to vary things as much as possible with left and right hand so that you can build an all-round strength that will allow your picados to become much better-sounding and faster (yet well-controlled, and that is the secret). You can practice picado as i-m, m-i, i-a, a-i, a-m, m-a, and a-m-i. Doing that will get you the versatility and overall dexterity in your right hand. And when you have a picado run in a piece that you find difficult, I suggest you practice that run a lot (and use it to practice your picado technique): it seems logical that if you want to learn a picado run that you practice picado using that particular run, rather than practice modes and scales then try to apply your learned technique to the run. You also have to analyze the run to know exactly how the left hand fingering should go, and which finger to start with using your right hand etc. These things you will figure out with time. Those are my 2 cents. I'm not the expert, and surely you will get MUCH BETTER pieces of advices off of people like Ricardo et al. on this forum (no disrespect to anyone because I didn't mention all the names), but I was in a typing mood - so there ya go dude!
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