It take you a bit longer than a 10 year old prodigy for sure, but you will get there.
Classical Guitar
Now play each digit in turn but replace that same digit back on the string before playing the next digit. In other words each right hand finger produces a damped or staccato note. At any one time there are 3 fingers always in contact with the strings. The above helped me train my 'a' finger, which tended to be weak and uncontrolled. I suppose it helps to keep the movement of each finger to 'just enough'.
Let the left hand know what the right hand is doing
It's a long process learning to play the guitar so enjoy the journey - we're all trying to improve little by little every day. Louis had a very valuable recommendation. Don't be 'afraid' you'll never play Asturias.
It's just one flashy piece, and most of us will never play it either. Relax, enjoy the journey as someone else already said , and there is plenty more beautiful music that won't give you focal dystonia as you drive yourself crazy trying it. I think scales are useful for a beginner to develop tone, but after that you have to look to the music. A vast amount of piano music is made up of scales and that's why you practice them on the piano, but how much guitar music is scales?
As stated earlier it's how not what that matters. This is nicely explained in Tennant's Pumping Nylon Book and others Try Villa Lobos Etude 1 very slow speed at the beginning and gradually increase speed week by week.
Adolphe Christiani's 1885 Table
There could be several reasons for this. In order to perform arpeggios well, it is necessary that the fingers of the left hand be placed simultaneously on the notes of the chord before striking the strings: This is a fundamental rule… [Translation mine. His advice has been passed down throughout generations with uncritical acceptance. Pujol seems to obviate the possibility of any type of left-hand anticipation or preparation by having written earlier: There may be sound pedagogical reasons for instructing students this way, but the requirements of pedagogy are often different from the requirements of art.
Received wisdom is very often not wisdom at all. The quick grabbing of chords has some unmusical consequences. Harmonic changes usually occur on the beat and a quick grabbing of a chord creates extra left-hand tension, which is then transferred to the right-hand fingers in the form of an involuntary accent.
And, even though this accent may occur on a strong beat, it is not a metric accent: This results in a hesitation, but it also causes a break in mental continuity and will never solve the problem of making a smooth movement from one chord to another. Both of these results are inherently unmusical.
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What will help create smoother connections is to consider the way one leaves whatever one is doing before a chord change or shift from one position to another. Rather than grab the first inversion dominant chord all at once when moving into the second measure, place the fingers sequentially in the order the right hand fingers play, i. The change can be enhanced further by realizing when the second finger can release the e' of the C major chord so that it can anticipate its movement to the fifth string sometime during beat 4.
Returning to the C chord is made easier by letting the third finger—which is unused in the dominant chord—hover above the third fret of the fifth string. For these exercises use the following left hand finger patterns: The example below uses If there ever was an argument for practicing rest stroke scales, I think Marco Tamayo would settle it.
Here is another valuable video where Marco gives us details on nail shaping and filing. Again, probably one of a handful of videos that are worth watching on the subject. Check out his newly published Principles of Guitar Performance. The ability to place the left hand in a position to give equal opportunity for each and every finger to fret precisely is essential for playing well. There are many instances where the ringing of adjacent strings is necessary. Think of your Bach fugues! So here are two exercises I like to show students who are struggling with placing left hand fingers precisely.
Some things to keep in mind:. The two chromatic octave exercises below should get you started.
They are useful for warming up, coordinating the hands, independence and opposing movement in the left hand fingers, and can even serve as a vehicle for right-hand development, too. Here are a few ways to focus on them:. Often, fingers are placed too early or too late, and both situations either overexert the fingers, the nerves, or worst of all, the musical intent. Arpeggios are, after all, broken chords. Sequential planting of the left-hand fingers is a skill that choreographs left hand movement to a deeper and more subtle level than simply grabbing at the next chord frantically at the start of a measure.
Here is a simple but effective exercise to help develop the principle of timely left-hand finger placement. Go through each exercise a few times plucking every single note of the arpeggio. Once this feels comfortable and the timing is starting to feel synced with both hands, slur the entering note in time to develop a sense of pulse in the left hand, too. There are infinite ways to expand this concept but one of my favorites is to move into cross-rhythms with accents.
Refined arpeggio practice for arpeggio for classical guitar
My idea of fun! My usual morning consists of a good warm-up a combination of left hand movements and slurs, right hand alternation movements and arpeggios, and scales , before moving on to practicing spots in pieces, and finally playing through pieces and working on new pieces. However, there are periods of the year where I have more time to extend my technique practice and to learn new pieces.