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Ramblingman
Feb 17 2009, 09:20 AM
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Cheers Dejan biggrin.gif

Some question for you here..

1: Tell me your right hand teqnuice, do you use all your fingers. How do they work, do they "live" on each string ? For example pinky on E,Index on G ?
2. What is the best advantage, using three fingers, four or five ?
3.Hows is it best to hold the hand position ( maybe a picture ? )

Would be a lot of help for me Dejan!

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Dejan Farkas
Feb 17 2009, 11:09 AM
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Hey Ramblingman smile.gif

I'll do my best to answer the questions

1. My right hand technique depends on a piece that I play, some general rules are that the thumb is playing bass strings (E, A, D) and other three fingers play treble strings (index = G, middle = B, ring = E), good example for this can be Evening Bells
Sometimes I play with thumb even on treble strings: Malaguena
And when I play a solo line, I use alternate picking (index, middle)

There are two main right hand picking techniques: TIRANDO (free stroke) and APOYANDO (rest stroke)

TIRANDO, finger plays a string and do not touch any other string (remains in the air), this is for playing chords, arpeggios and melody lines that are not emphasized
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APOYANDO, after note is played the finger rests on the neighboring string, this is used for emphasizing melody lines
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2. It depends on the piece as well, if you play 4 string arpeggios than of course you need 4 fingers for that: Etude in E Minor, for three strings arpeggios I use three fingers: Etude in A Minor.
Regarding right hand pinky, there were some attempts to utilize it in the past, but they all failed and the pinky is very rarely used, I don't use it at all since it's shorter and weaker, and I can do all I want with other fingers smile.gif


3. Here are some illustrations I found on the net that may help you smile.gif

This is a correct posture of a classical guitarist, guitar is firmly in place when placed on the rised left leg, so both hands are free to move
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This is right hand from above, notice that thumb and other fingers do not disturb each other
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And this is a front view of right hand
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Hope this helps a bit, I am glad you are interested in this subject, let me know if you need any other help smile.gif

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Ramblingman
Feb 18 2009, 10:35 PM
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Tnx m8 biggrin.gif

Actually it helped me alot...ty Dejan smile.gif

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Dejan Farkas
Feb 18 2009, 11:27 PM
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