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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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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.
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
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