Things to remember when you play scales (Spanish Guitar)
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- 1. Push the string down before releasing
2. Always strike with the same part of the finger
3. Make sure your movements are as economical as possible
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I remember watching this almost 15 years ago when it was first posted… time flies.
This guys picado is completely out of this world
oh my!!! is this Grisha....wow!! i've been looking for your official channel all over youtube and now i finally find it. I love your dexterity, I really enjoy your dexterity, it's flawless, well what do i know about flaw but still.
Thank you for taking your time out of the busy schedule and making this tutorial. We are all so lucky that an amazing artist like you made a tutorial that is free of cost. Thank You so much!
True that!
Do u play flamenco ?
This is amazing!
I'm watching this 10 years later than it was posted and the knowledge is timeless.
1 beat.
Go as fast as i possibly can.
My fingers already hurt...
gosh! when you play it almost looks as if it's been put on fast forward!! it's so amazing! I hope I can get there some day
I never really fully understood this lesson but I now I definitely do. Doing the Picado on the same part of the fingers is so important especially for consistency. This has really helped me. Thank you Grisha!
Very useful video, thanks a lot Mr. Goryachev.
Superb!! You have mastered your right adn left hand skills to the level of Sabicas and other great Flamenco player.
Wow this is so awesome!
Thank you for these wonderful and helpful tips!
I love these much needed lessons.
Thank you Grisha, a really valuable and excellent lesson. I've been playing guitar for many years, I had many instructors, but none of them could show me a picado-lesson like this one. I should have seen this many years earlier!
Thank you so much Grisha. This will help me right now.
Thanks alot Grisha. Working on my scales following your ways. Please keep sharing more like this. I`m learning on my own day by day as in INDIA there is no Flamenco teacher. Thanks again.
Brillia video, thanks very much for sharing your knowledge in this way. Much respect!
Thanks so much Grisha 🙏 Warm cheers 😊 God bless 🙏🎸🎶
Grisha, thanks! I try to play evenly, and you were even kind enough to compliment my picado at your clinic, but I never thought of the concept of several notes grouped into one beat. I'm definitely better at descending then ascending, and now with your grouping idea, ascending is already working better after a few days!
i HAD A 4 YEARS BRAKE from my classical guitar and for 3 days I started to practise again ! I allready gained the speed on the scales which I never had even when I was practicing ( I don`t have the speed of Grisha but I am very close ) !! I just followed this exercises ! Grisha admited that there are a lot of ways to gain speed ! I also have my own ways but this exercises are probably the best known so far ! In just 3 days after a 4 years of TOTAL BRAKE ! Incredible ! After all , the classical guitar technique ( or even flamenco ) if you want to write it down , It fits in 3 , 4 pages ! The rest is practice !
This is brilliant. Thank you so much, Maestro.
blown away! back to the woodshed! wow!!!
From Uruguay, I wish you well, I hear much your music, learn your technique, and how could you develop your skills.I appreciate you explain in your videos.
a hug from Uruguay.
Marcos Topolanski
You are an amazing player
no.
its hard, but its very very fun.
and with a little learning, you have a lot of fun
and there are easy flamenco things to learn, not all flamenco compositions are like the ones that this guy plays, because this guy is a real genius!! :-)
Wow...impressive.
Still find it difficult but shall practice.
Beautiful voice...
This is a a FINE explanation of the R.H. Bill Kanningeiser, Scott Tennant, also give the reason for pushing down on the strings. Much to learn hear. Outstanding!!
thanks for posting!
The speed and clarity that this guy has is incredible. One thing I noticed (see 1:16 ) is that his middle and index fingers are almost the same length which means they will have a very equal action as they alternate. Most peoples i fingers are quite a bit shorter that the m, which means the m curls more and presents more resistance to the string that the i, and this limits the speed.
great lesson grisha! thanks!
Thank you Grisha. After having watched this I realize how much I have to improve my right hand technique.
Each time I watch you the same question pops into my mind: who were you in your previous life. : )
Your sympathetic motion is incredible
legend!!
man you're perfect!!
I like and appreciate your play
I agree with you! You are great
puro genio!!!
las manos son de oro..
genial! gracias grisha
Especially liked the last tip there!
thank you so much master!!
"his middle and index fingers are almost the same length", it's not so, look at 1:28; same length as most people. This guy has worked hard to attain his speed and has no 'natural advantage'. Best player/teacher I've seen on YT.
Big respect mininocurro!
This guy is a master!
Muchas gracias amigo!
Гриша, спасибо за совет насчёт мышления как о двух долях, очень полезно!
Great video! You have awesome technique too, wow. Do you have any recommendation for scale patterns besides Segovia Scales? I'm trying to find classical patterns for harmonic minor too. Thanks!!!
Push down on the string, heck that's interesting and works! Thanks
Thank for this video. Very good instructions. Like neuromance27 mentioned there is a kanengiser video that also mention this way of pushing down the strings. It is very hard though to change ones approach. I have just started trying to study classical guitar but have so many bad habits that seems so hard to break. The way I hold the neck, the way I pluck the strings, my total lack of feeling the strings before I play etc.
Back in 1991-94 when I played as a kid my guitar teacher never corrected any of these things. Even though I haven't played much guitar at all over the years everything is still learnt as automatic muscle memory. So not easy to change, but going to really try now that I am serious about classical guitar.
Thanks again for the video!
I don’t play well enough to attempt flamenco. But I still subscribed, such valuable content!!
Thanks very good. More please
WOW!I barely post comments on youtube. I felt i needed to do it this time. You play amazing!Keep up the good job man. I apreciate you putting this video.
you are amazing! you use a rest stroke of course right? what about when going up down a scale? how do you do the rest stroke going down? thank you!
Superlike!!!
Thank you man for sharing these videos about picados
indeed.. these view things here are the best tips for picado.. i improved a lot..
also important is the correct alternation when changing the chord to the uper chord.. to constantly alternate..
I've watched your performance before so I expected your teaching would be pure gold. but I can't understand exactly what you mean by "pushing down the strings" this is very important for me. I'd be in your debt forever if you explain this part. sometimes I get a good sound but I lose it again. I'm sure it's not my nails. it seems this is my main issue. thank you so much and please keep up the good work maestro!
I see that no one has responded to your question, so I will. The string pluck is best thought of as a sequence of a few distinct movements. The first is the placement of the finger on the string, as Grisha mentions, which is best achieved by contacting the string as precisely as possible where the nail and skin meet. The second is what you are asking about specifically. By pushing down, he literally means to push the finger directly in towards the sound hole. This is where the fullness of tone comes from. And then the 3rd part is the release, where the fingers snaps off the string and allows it to vibrate. You could add a 4th part, which I consider just as important as any of these, which is the immediate relaxation of the finger than just plucked the string. For further explanation on this, or any technical aspect of the guitar, I strongly suggest buying Scott Tennant's "Pumping Nylon," generally considered to be the proverbial Bible of classical guitar technique. Best of luck!
@@RyanWalshGuitar thank you so much you are very kind and a good teacher. so the finger's direction is like rest stroke? my a and m fingers hit the string frome the right part of the nail I must be doing something wrong.
@@RyanWalshGuitar This is a good explanation, but I'm not sure about the immediate relaxation part. I believe Pepe Romero has said that after stroking through the string, the finger should maintain some pressure on the "rest" string until it departs to prepare for its next note. This seems to help stabilize the hand, preventing its bouncing around.
I will take your advice thanks
very good...
@mininocurro I was talking about the underside of the fingers, which I think it what you're saying, but anyway I played around a bit, and now I think I know what you mean.
Wow just two fingers? Very fast and good technique you have. How much time do you spend just doing exercises like scales and even simpler things? Or how much time did you spend doing that to get to where you are now?
Hi Grisha. Thanks fo this great video.
One question, though: you rightly say that we should strive for minimal movement of the right hand. I'm mostly a bass player and I realize that my plucking hand technique could be greatly improved. I currently play faster with either my index or middle finger than with both...I realize that my my middle finger "hooks" way too close towards my palm but I can't figure out how to prevent that. Any suggestions, exercices to correct that? Thanks in advance!
hello. at first i should tell that you are a fantastic guitar player. thanks for sharing your knowledge. i have a nail melting problem. i know it depands on nail quality and it changes for each person but i think there is something to solve problems about it. i have a picado technique that my i-m fingers comes the string with a little crosswise aspect. i can be stronger and faster with this teqnique and don't want to change it. but the problem is melting. what do you advise?
dude. i wish this guy was MY teacher. He should get paid a LOT of money to make videos like this.
that's speed is insane!
Hola Grisha! Buenos días! What kind of scales do You recomend me to study to play Flamenco? Gracias and have a great day maestro
mr. Goryachev do you push down when using three fing and also any tips on making my pointer finger more fluid
I am having problems growing my fingernails and this could be the answer. Can you also use the down stroke in playing classical tremolo?
Thanks!
hi Grisha!!!
thx for the excellent teaching and perfection u give here,i am Rickard from Sweden practise 11 years most self and few private teachers to,,i want ask u abouth quickly up the picado speed like: some teachers say practise short times and often and Paco de lucia sit in houres with same,can u tell me how u schedule the time in practise or more the most effective in time, thx for all Rickard
@Dephyrgia Try playing a chromatic scale (one fret at a time) with one finger to each fret moving up and down the strings. That should individualize your fingers so they don't cross over one another. I notice with novice guitar players or those that just don't practice alot or hard enough. They lack hand strength which is very important for getting that precision.
perfect.
@mininocurro
After pushing the string down, do you release the string by 1) lifting your finger straight up or 2) moving your finger to the side (or a combination of the two)?
Thanks
yeah, I found indeed that my overall technique has improved. The tones I play are now much better, they have a nice and clear sound. I'm now just playing lots of different scales and I try memorizing them (not just the pattern of them, rather the sound). Guess speed will come eventually. It's just that Grisha makes it look like child's play, which it is most certainly not. As a result many newbs (like me) are trying to force themselves to learn the technique.
Serious classical, flamenco, nylon string players should research teachers that start students with no nails. This gentleman shares valuable information in this video.
@scrollandkey It is up to you... I can do both.
Fine indeed.
best lesson ever with all tricks of real Picado
Nearly half the viewers of this excellent video consider it not worth their time. One can only despair that such informative clips could possibly considered "dislikeable" and this indicates just how SHALLOW youtube/google is for providing such a roman gladiatorial measure of cultural offerings.
Sadly, once you mix stupidity with jealousy in a bowl, attach a body to it, and provide it with WiFi access, the result will be no better!
+fingerhorn4 - it only means that half the viewers don't have a clue. he clearly knows what he is talking about. just look at that lightning speed.
@mininocurro
When it comes to left hand economy, do you have to prevent the 3 and 4 fingers from flying away from the fret board? Because whenever I try playing a scale, my 3 and 4 fingers automatically get settled on top of my left hand index finger when I am not using them
thnx yusefmou....Does the Alhambra have tighter strings than an inexpensive flamenco guitar? How can the expensive guitar be easier to play quickly? What is it about the Alahambra that makes it easy to play quickly? thnx
Dear friend! thank you very much for your videos! They are helping a lot to understand little important things. I have a question for you. When you play picado, would you say that you use hard medium or soft touch on the strings?? What is the ideal way? I am beginner and I want to know the right way to play picado.
You are welcome! I believe when you are learning picado, you should play with relaxed hands but clear sound. Once you learn the correct movement, you can then modulate your dynamics from piano to fortissimo. Picado is an effect similar to fast footwork of flamenco dancers, so in concert you typically go for the dynamic with the most energy you can handle.
@@Grisha_Goryachev thank you very much for your answer. now i know the right way t o do it. i enjoy your videos and your explainations...keep up the good job!
Hi miniocurro, I've got a question.
I have problems in descending the scale. When I play for example A on the first string 5th fret with m and then I want to play G on the 2nd string 8th fret with i, well m is kinda muting the string (G note) when I get to play it with i
Am I clear enough ?
Thank you in advance
Hey grisha do you use slip finger technique in picado
Dear Grysha, one more question please... How to avoid unnecessary right hand movement (up and down) when you play scales with your pointer and middlefinger while, at the same time, playing a melody with your thumb like in Malaguena for example? Thanks a lot! Btw. you are an outstanding player!
and not to forget.. the aim is to be fast.. but the way is to do it slow and correct... speed will come automaticly then!
@dogiego
It's a combination of both.
ahh!! i been doing this 4 months..when you skip to another string are you still alternating between I and M finger???
Computers have evolved a lot since the 1980's why shouldn't guitar technique. You make a great point!!
@hendrixkixas Push into the string straight towards your body then release by of course plucking but you are also simultaneously going to slide your finger off. If that makes any sense...
awesome lesson, thanks so much! But i have a question please. After i release the string, is it ok to have contact with the next higher string for a moment? Like resting your finger on it for a split second without producing a sound on that string? Hope you will answer cause i dont want to memorise a maybe fault technique. Thanks so much Grisha!!!
+Peter Pan Yes, absolutely! That's precisely what I am doing in the video.
However, there are two ways of playing scales: using rest stroke (apoyando) and using free stroke (tirando). You should practice them both.
+Grisha Goryachev
Awesome! Thanks so much for the fast reply!!!
I try to practice as you told, but is it a good idea to practice slow and as loud as possible to build my finger strength or should i try to be very relaxed when practicing... do you have any tencion in your right arm when you play fast??? I have been playing the guitar for many years but have never gotten very fast despite practising many hours, so I would like to know more about the feeling of playing fast and how to practice...left and right hand, please. Thanks for the video
How's it going so far?
Dear Grisha, I have seen this picado technique explained by Rubin Diaz and others. As a student I always want to do the best possible. Your absolutely elegant explanation makes me want to do it. It completely throws off my current method of playing but it is so amazing to hear you play I am gladly retarded for a while. YOU ARE THE GREATEST.
Play where the nail meets the flesh? Do you mean virtually underneath the nail? I play there by accident sometimes and it really hurts! It often severs the skin connecting the nail.
Also, which fingers are you using on the right hand? Index, middle, ring fingers?
Is there a way to make your nylon strings tighter? I use high tension strings, but I feel that if the strings were tighter I would be able to play faster. Are most professional flamaenco players using tighter strings than the normal off the rack flamenco guitars?
How much time do you recommend practicing dedicated techniques like this per day to get good, like you.. well as half as good as you..? After a while the fingers get tired and then makes playing sound terrible ( as form is lost). I want to get good but I dont know how or what to practice.
Mr. Goryachev do you give online lessons? This video is quite old so I wanted to know if you still do and what's the best way to get in touch with you.
where the flesh meets the nail = the PULP thanks for sharing muchas gracias hombre !!!
ps : I use the pulp it is not easy to grow and use nails to play when you are not used to but you mentionned it the secret is a ten letters word that starts by répé and ends by tition :)
@lubik2323 You hit the string with your flesh but then slide off so that your nail grazes the string and produces a clear, loud plectrum tone.
Peace, children! It's a misunderstanding. By the way, Zityab, Conrad is not to be messed with when it comes to playing!
@LogicalPhallusy No, I mean on the thumb side of the nail, where the flesh and the nail intersect. I use middle and index fingers on this video.
Hello Grisha.
I really want to keep alternating fingers when moving from one string to the other but it just feels more natural and faster to drag the resting finger (especially the index) to the next string for some reason like for example; I play "m i m i", on the first string, naturally I would play "m" when moving to the 2nd string, but it just feels faster to drag the "i".
What are your thoughts?
It would be good for the great master Grisha Goryachev to talk about it and even make a video with exercises that he recommends to work on this error. It is an idea for a video if it has not yet been done yet.
When playing these fast single note runs do you ever incorporate the 'a' finger , or are you only supposed to use the m & i fingers?
@Grisha Goryachev hear pushing in towards the top is the best technique from many great flamenco players. But, when I watch videos of Paco, he seemed to pull upwards towards the E string and he still got a great tone. What are your thoughts on that?
Pushing in gives you a fuller, warmer sound, while pulling gives you that flamenco snap.
When it comes to left hand economy, do you have to prevent the 3 and 4 fingers from flying away from the fret board? Because whenever I try playing a scale, my 3 and 4 fingers automatically get settled on top of my left hand index finger when I am not using them
is it good exercise to try cutting your nails so you could achieve step 2?
@REX05011 Flamenco music encompasses many different song styles, or palos, that are played in everything from phrygian to natural minor to major scales. Check out Niño Ricardo, Paco de Lucía or Moraito to see some different ways of playing.
I can see that your fingers are about the same length. my question is..
does the fingers length matters when you try to play fast? because my m finger is like 1cm longer than my i finger