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sorin popovici

Posts: 429
Joined: Jan. 7 2005
From: Iasi, Romania

for all the experts in alzapua

Hi! I have this very serious question about alzapua .

I can do alzapua in two ways .but one is wrong ...and i dont know what is the good aproach.
I can do alzapua faster but with a little tension in my shoulder,or slower without the tension
in my shoulder .The thing is like that ,i have been trying to fight for a long time
that little tension..it's a phenomenon like breathing when doing fast scale work.

OFFTOPIC
I mean usually I have problems with fast scales if (god forbids) I'm a critical point in a scale
like a cross string point ,or smth else.Now ,if it's picado i know i have to take it slow and try to breath normally and not to get excited.
OFFTOPIC

Returning to alzapua ...in my second aproach I have no tension in my shoulder,but my down movement relies completely(or almost) on the natural weight of my hand(more
succint I let it fall across the chord,ofcourse after i hit the bass note).Now, this could
be a ticket to heaven if I could control the falling ...but it's very hard.

So which way ? Try to exercise with that little tension and hope that in time i'll
have less and less tension (i mean with the barre holding it all worked out eventually,i have less and less tension with practice),or exercise slowly without tension and hope that i get faster?

I know that only my wrist should work,but that's in theory ...I've seen Nunez saying that
but I dont know....i'm sure that he does it now only from the wrist ,but i dont know which road did he take to get here.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 31 2005 20:20:16

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RE: for all the experts in alzapua (in reply to sorin popovici)

??? only the wrist?

I believe to remember that ive read somewhere on foro that its better the more calm your hand is.
Abanico should be only played with wrist AFAIK.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 31 2005 20:48:13

sorin popovici

Posts: 429
Joined: Jan. 7 2005
From: Iasi, Romania

RE: for all the experts in alzapua (in reply to sorin popovici)

Now that I discovered that I can do it with the wrist only (or i think i can)
it seems that grigory goriachev is doing the same thing.U can observe
in his videos that the fingers are toatally relaxed in the right hand when
doing alzapua ,relying onl y on the weightof the hand .

Anyway , I hope that I get more opinions on this ...sorry ,for posting
so much ...too much coffee.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 31 2005 21:37:25