"How To Shape Your Nails For Classical Guitar" - Bahar Ossareh | tonebase Tips
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What's the one thing every guitarist, no matter their level, is always working on? Nails, of course! Learn the 10 essential nail tips that will help you grow, shape, and maintain your nails better than ever before.
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The most helpful video on this topic on TH-cam. Thanks!
nah 😂
Finally something useful video for me! Thank u very much!
Thank so for this video... you are a great teacher too
Thank you!
Hi. I noticed that your nails are thin and fragile as my own nails, do you have some tricks to make them more strongs? Greetings.
Thank you!!!!
I became inpatient and fast forwarded, did she walkabout the shape of the thumb nail?
no sir
So many nail shape tutorials only show 4 fingers (of which we only use 3), and no thumb! Even though the thumb is arguably the most important nail…
It looks like she just lets it retain a rounded shape.
what are the tools needed and where to get them online?
What about the thumb? My thumb is getting stuck on the string. Thank you.
Forgive me if this sounds condescending, as I appreciate the effort in making a video on the subject - None of the “ramping” that is shown here is actually going to facilitate great tone and easy playing.
What is needed to get great tone and smooth releasing of the nail is to shape the nail into a flat plane. There are videos of William Kanengiser and Jason Vieaux (both Grammy Award winners) discussing this at length.
As great of a player as Tennant is, I think the Pumping Nylon ramped nail (which you show here) is easily misunderstood by many players. The “ramp” is the straight line of the nail edge.
Wow. I came here to get some fine tuning advice and noticed her I finger shape and I suspect it can work for her with her particular technique, but it's not the typical shape we see being used, certainly anyone with at least a year of experience would be a bit perplexed at this shape.
Again I think it can work out well for her. I think it comes down to flesh nail connection point.
What I still find disturbing is that I haven't seen 1 concise explanation of nail shape, string connection and the science of the whole thing described holistically.
When it comes to nail shape and right hand technique. These "Do this it will work for you because it worked for me" videos just don't cut it.
@@blahdiblah2169 that's because it depends on every player's anatomy and style and of course wrong assumption. I have spent many years searching around this subject and I know why some people have trouble with these tutorial. that's being said, tell me about your problem perhaps I can answer your question
@@blahdiblah2169 try this lady - she breaks everything down amazingly well....th-cam.com/video/qW1pDXnSGxI/w-d-xo.html
Where can I get the exact tools you are using?
Forget the nail file my friend... go to hardware shop and buy 1000 grit wet and dry paper... all the professional classical guitarists do this.. you can cut small strips or just leave on a big sheet.. place it on the table and swipe towards yourself and towards the left. This will give you the appropriate sweep... imagine you are trying to get paint off the edge of your nail... aim and then pull
@@charliebowen5071 Hi friend, my classical guitar teacher told me nails shaped this way (like in the video)(assymetrical) are better for flamenco. For classical guitar he says a symmetric and rounder shape is better. Is he right about it? I am confused
@@mehmetfurkanatilgan No. it depends on your playing , the angle of attack etc. pay attention to the tip of your nail near the string. they should be parallel
Mehmet Furkan ATILGAN that would make scents
@@mehmetfurkanatilgan th-cam.com/video/TJ36c3_6jks/w-d-xo.html
Really recommend you this video and also the book of John Taylor about Tone prodution on Classical guitar.
Thank you for your sharing. Where can we find that kind of nail files and buffers?
very useful and a lovely voice. thank you.
I had long nails once, but when i do ground work it breaks away,so i never had the chance to keep nails for long .
Instead i play with the fleshy part ..i am not sure whether it would yield any good result
I would try to find the maximum length that they don't break off mate. If you play with your skin it sounds far quieter, more muffled and less bright. If it is really not possible for you to grow your nails other options are to use a plectrum or some finger extensions, called finger plectrums, that are supposed to replicate nails. Hope that helps out! :)
@@menzoueda2931 thanks that's really helpful
@@BluntofHwicce you made me remember that I have a guitar...
Thanks
@@BluntofHwicce yes,I have not played guitar since 7 months because of educational reasons,
it's really helpful getting advice from you
Thanks for the suggestion
This method you showed is quite good if you have perfectly shaped natural nails. But if you have very thin or not uniform shaped nail it needs a more advanced method. For this I have developed special artificial nails. They never break, holding 3 month, sound perfect and are applied in 5 minutes per nail. I am in the process of preparing a paper showing the exact procedure 🤓😋🥰
Im sad that i ve never did my nails , just randomly cut them for 8 years not realising how hard it can make playing. And cant play tremelo cause it always stuck and cut the sound.
ogod the scratching asanding sounds is enough to make you cringe 😬
its a bit extreme
this is the worst video i have ever seen on the subject of guitar nails
She’s trying
@@almostgood3625still
@@almostgood3625awful
THIS IS HORRIBLE AND WRONG!
It’s fine she’s trying
@@almostgood3625bro, she ruined the nails and the nails immediately got their layers crossed resulting in a wet and heavy feeling nail, painful and completely dragging through the string. almost catching
this is worse than letting nails grow from scratch and not filing them at all! 😂