Miguel de Maria -> RE: PDL's picado position: supporting the guitar? (May 27 2004 20:16:23)
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RichardM wrote: ...The thing is Paco is ALWAYS making contact with his right arm so the guitar is always balanced on the right leg. I am assuming you are playing near the bridge, not over the sound hole. So when doing picados on the open 5th and 6th strings (with the left hand on your right ankle) the guitar is EASILY supported by contact of the index or middle finger on the string, the thumb on the soundboard, the forearm/wrist on the side/corner, all pushing the guitar into your (right side) chest. The guitar will not move unless you let go of all 3 points of right hand contact. --This is also how I understand the picado to work. The vital point, I believe, is the contact of the forearm on the side/corner of the guitar. With this you are touching the guitar in 3/4 places, a triangle of wrist,leg,chest+ thumb. Without it, you don't have a triangle of support, unless you count the action of the fingers + thumb as support. This is needlessly difficult.
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