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Goldwinghai
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Joined: Mar. 17 2015
From: Virginia USA
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Setting goals
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Do you set short-term and long-term goals for your flamenco guitar playing or learning? Can you share? I would like to hear from you. A year ago in April when I started taking flamenco lessons, I set a personal goal to achieve a 10 in 3-4 years from my current skill level, say zero. My 10 is not the same as your 10 or other player's 10, and it does not mean perfection. My 10 means decent independent movement of the left hand fingers, especially the a and x fingers, playing in time with the metronome, picado at decent speed, learn to play some serious pieces cleanly, and few other flamenco skills like a i p continuous rasguedo, etc. Now after one year, I give myself a 2 - still a long way to go. So recently I started setting short-term goals, more or less a weekly practice plan. For example, this week I spent more time to improve my a and x fingers, doing i a, ma, ix, ax legatos, playing alegrias falsetas which have lots of a and x fingering spreading over 4 and 5 frets. To me, without picado, it's not flamenco; and without smooth independent left hand fingers, picado is not possible. So back to the grind, 2 hours on the guitar each day hopefully achieving my 10 in 2018. And then setting a new 10. Flamenco is lots of fun for me. Being retired, flamenco and golf are my 2 passions which I enjoy each and every day.
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