how to speed am arpeggio

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St33

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how to speed am arpeggio

Hi! I have very slow am arpeggio (pmamama...). it interferes with my ami arpeggios. does anyone know good exercises?

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kitarist

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RE: how to speed am arpeggio (in reply to St33)

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Hi! I have very slow am arpeggio (pmamama...). it interferes with my ami arpeggios. does anyone know good exercises?

pmamama arpeggio? Is the mamama part alternating on the same two treble strings, like strings 212121? Or is the string-to-finger mapping somehow different?

If it is mamama on 212121 (or 323232), you can practice doing scales for 5-10min a day using only m and a alternation (it can be apoyando, not tirando, so - picado). I bet ma picado is much slower for you than im picado. Write down the tempo that you can do a clean scale with a good tone; in a couple of weeks you should be making significant progress. Doing this should spill over into ami/ima arpeggio proficiency and speed.

EDIT: Here's a more hardcore exercise (note how mamam goes on strings 32123 first and then amama goes on 32123):

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Erik van Goch

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RE: how to speed am arpeggio (in reply to St33)

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Hi! I have very slow am arpeggio (pmamama...)

I have no idea what to picture myself with this. Any example of it being used in actual playing ?

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Miguel de Maria

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RE: how to speed am arpeggio (in reply to St33)

That's not a normal idiomatic movement on the guitar. I doubt it's messing up your ami.

One thing you might do is play am together like a chord. Then play am so that there is only a tiny bit separating them, rolling it. Then play am so there is more and more space, gradually. Repeat this a lot until you feel control.

You can also play a loud and m soft, a soft and m loud. a loud and m medium, a medium and m soft. Etc... the more control you have, the better the movement will be.

A little scale practice using am instead of im might help out a little. Don't overdo it, though.

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Paul Magnussen

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does anyone know good exercises?

El abejorro, by Emilio Pujol (published by Ricordi, I believe); play it pmam instead of pimi.

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mark indigo

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RE: how to speed am arpeggio (in reply to St33)

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Hi! I have very slow am arpeggio (pmamama...). it interferes with my ami arpeggios. does anyone know good exercises?

Gerardo Nuñez Encuentro DVD (comes with a book). Everyone should have that anyway, sections cover all techniques, including arpegio, and including working different combinations of 2 and 3 fingers.

You could also just take whatever you are trying to play with ami arpegios, and play it through with ama and then mam....

and/or just arpegiate a dim7 chord* up and down the neck with pama, then pmam

*(6th string open; 5th string 2nd finger 2nd fret; 4th string 3rd finger 3rd fret; 3rd string 1st finger 1st fret; 2nd string 4th finger 3rd fret; 1st string open)

You can practise pretty much any right hand arpegio or tremolo with that, also alzapua, rasgueado and string crossing with pulgar and picado...

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