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RE: Anton Jimenez Daily Exercises
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Miguel de Maria
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 RE: Anton Jimenez Daily Exercise #12 (in reply to Guest)
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I've come up with a nice way to warm up my RH. I do picado up and down the strings, covering all the rhythmic levels. So I do a measure or two of eighth notes on 1, then 2 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 2, then do triplets, then sixteenths, then quintuplets (5 per), then sextuplets, then septuplets (7 per), then 32nd notes. You could do this around 80 or 100. The thing to do is always to think this thought "I am paying attention to EXACTLY the spot where my RH tenses up." You will find like magic that your RH will NOT tense up, merely because you are thinking this magical phrase. It's kind of tricky to play the 5s and 7s if you aren't used to it, but you find that you also have to think these numbers, 12345 or takatakata. You find that guitar is mostly mental after all!
Try to play the picado light since this is a warm up. Picture your hand floating above the strings like a flying saucer with antigravity engines.
Let me know how everyone likes it!
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Date Jul. 3 2004 17:32:03
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Miguel de Maria
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RE: Anton Jimenez Daily Exercise #12 (in reply to Guest)
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Henrik, you just confused me and I'm the one who wrote the post! :) Gtr66, here's how you figure it out. Set your metronome to 80 bpm. Now, do this:
1. Play 2 notes per beat, these are called eight notes Ta ka, Ta ka, Ta ka
2. Play 3, these are triplets. Ta ka ta Ta ka ta Ta ka ta
3. 4, sixteenth notes Ta ka ta ka Ta ka ta ka Ta ka Ta ka
4. 5 these are called quintuplets Ta ka ta ka ka Ta ka ta ka ka Ta ka ka ta ka
5. 6, called sextuplets
6. 7, called septuplets
7. 8, called 32nd notes
5 notes per beat, and 7 are very hard to feel because they are uncommon, but it's good to practice them. 6 is fairly common and basically feels like stuffing two triplets into a beat, 8 is uncommon, but feels like stuffing two sixteenth notes into a beat.
If 80 is too fast for bigger numbers, slow down, use 60, 40, 30, whatever. If you train your mind to be able to THINK these numbers, eventually your fingers will follow and be able to play them. Speed is mental, so you are really training your mind more than the fingers.
Henrik, only if it's 4 notes per beat is that called sixteenth notes. Otherwise they have special names.
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Date Jul. 4 2004 23:12:29
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On electric guitar 
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