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Hi everybody!
This week we will talk about a VERY COMMON problem among finger-style guitarists: Right-hand alternation and the 😈 devilish string crosses!
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I wish you happy practicing!
Merce
Excellent exercises and explanation.
Finger independence - between the LH & RH - is hard. Whenever the LH uses the first finger, the RH wants to use i and so on. It's hard to break that connection.
I have always thougt that if you can play a scale using i-m-a-m-i then you know you have achieved independence of LH/RH.
ps: this is the best guitar channel. A few more intermediate or advanced vids would be nice, but the vlogs and content are just so enjoyable.
Muchisimas gracias,
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Splendid vid and exercises, Merce!
I was exploring some flamenco picado techniques recently which is taking a similar approach. https://youtu.be/XfUuCuWsGq8
On the other extreme end: traditional fingerstyle is often at the approach of assigning each RH finger i m a to its own string 3 2 1 as much as possible (and the p alternating the bass on 6 5 4). Like in this pattern: https://youtu.be/81ppWhMmXLc?t=590 But of course in longer melodic sections on one string alternating is applied also.