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BARCELONA
Finger Picking Initiation
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These two studies will familiarize you with finger-picking. You will
learn to play a melody with accompaniment of bass as well as a three sounds chords sequences chained without the help of arpeggios.
REMEMBER : It is necessary to avoid, for the treble voice, using the
same finger twice (the bass line being always played by the thumb). Re-examine, if necessary, "Tremolo in Arpeggios" (Volume I of this method) which approached this technique.
The training advice is : in a same measure, do not withdraw the right hand fingers off the strings as long as it is not useful. Always try playing as legato as possible.
If you sight-read using only the musical score, the small rectangles will help you understand well which are the sounds played simultaneously.
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The following piece is an alternative to the precedent, more
musical, but more technical. Here your treble voice is made up of two
sounds, therefore you simultaneously pick two strings with both right hand's forefinger and middle finger. Be careful with the sound homogeneity, forefinger and middle finger having to pick with the same intensity.
Particularly supervise bar (in measures 9, 10, 11 and 15, 16, 17) this one having to remain in place during three measures.
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| Only practise exercise 12 if the number 11 is perfectly played!!! |
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