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Beginners' Solea Challenge
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Arash
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Joined: Aug. 9 2006
From: Iran (living in Germany)
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RE: Beginners' Solea Challenge (in reply to Ailsa)
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I do not want to make a Rasguedos lesson in your thread but now that we spoke about it, one post which could be helpful. Ok, here is a 2 minutes video from Gerardo (i think it should be ok if i upload such a short 2 min. part from the DVD) for 3 Finger Rasgueados. He plays a little bit fast, but you get an idea how to play the Rasgueados. First you can see that his hand position is between soundhole and bridge and not so much above soundhole like Merengue. Second you can see that at the beginning of each Rasguedos, his thumb gets kind of hooked in to the E-string and is angled and the 3 fingers are clamped under the thumb (not in palm of the hand), so that he can build up tension to flick the fingers a,m,i, away one by one from behind of the thumb with enough power. This way the rasguedos sound transparent, crystal clear, differentiated and nicer imo. The tension is not built in palm of the hand, but behind the thumb as mentioned. Sidenote: only when you want to play 4 Finger Rasgueados (which is not so popular these days) including the little finger, the tension is built in palm of the hand. Paco for instance uses both rasgueado techniques, but now lets concentrate on 3 Finger rasgueados. Now, do what he does slowly and flick the fingers one by one (first a, then, m, then i). Fingers should kind of snap over the strings. Slow down the video if necessary. Each finger should be trained seperately. Practice very slow until each finger creates the same Volume and the same sound like the other fingers. There should be no difference, no cheating. This way, you prevent to practice too fast and wrong and you train all your fingers correctly. At the end of the video , he adds the "i" upstroke which makes the rasgueados 4 stroke of course and which is also used in Merengues solea (followed by "i" downstroke again and so on) The last part in the video is continous rasgueados. btw, When you want to play such rasgueados with the higher 3 or 4 strings only, you should hook your thumb in to the A string instead of E-string. Ok here is the Video. In the next post i will upload Merengues video part with the Solea that you uploaded so that we have everything.
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