Munin -> Arpeggios are evil (Oct. 28 2008 11:56:09)
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Well, I've been learning flamenco guitar for about 9 months now - played guitar 3 years before that, albeit of the electric variety. I'm spending one to two hours every day practising, and 50% of that time is mostly devoted to focusing on improving the various techniques. Now, I've read in quite a few books - and heard quite a few people - saying that of all techniques, arpegio is supposed to be the easiest, the one mastered in the shortest amount of time. For some reason, for me it's the technique I struggle with the most. My pulgar is pretty okay, tremolo getting there, rasgueados too, but...arpegio. Now, my teacher is one of the best flamenco guitarists in the area and he has taken great care in ensuring that my arpeggio technique (hand position) etc is correct, and I don't think I have any issues with that. However, I still think that arpegios can be mean bastards! If on any given day, I start my practice routine with arpegios, I feel like having picked up a guitar for the first time in my life - my fingers are brushing all over the strings, I'm not able to play anything cleanly at a decent speed, which makes me feel like a complete idiot. Now, I can usually smoothen my arpegio technique after 10-15 minutes of warming up, but I still feel I'm kind of lagging behind with it. Especially in my weekly lessons, which we often start with an arpegio warm-up, it can be frustrating to see I'm still struggling with the same exercise we started out with 9 months ago. I can get it back to a "solid" level after a while of playing, but it's still so frustrating. Does anybody have a similar issue? Is it really supposed to be the easiest technique? Am I disabled? Anyone got any effective exercises (beyond p+ any ami combination until my fingers fall off)? Thanks!
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