Capricho Árabe

[rick-slo]

Originally Posted by RamóN

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gxMgwqJBjk

starting 3:20 there are some fast runs and they have an open string bass line. This video isnt his best performance of this piece but you can hear the difference. Thats for me is a relaxed hand that doesnt need to rest tension anywhere and has full finger independence in those kind of passages.

Of course you do see don't you that in this video he is resting his thumb momentarily on certain runs.

[RamóN]

Yes but as i said before the problem is not if you rest your thumb or not when you already have a high level of technique, but if you learn and develop your technique getting used to rest your thumb then you risk that those kind of passages will get harder to do in the future.

Remember that i said that i advise not to do it, not that is something that i consider completely wrong, just better not to do it when learning.

[rick-slo]

I more or less agree with a middle road and there is such a concept as artistic license. I just did not
understand how that video was demonstrating some point you were trying to make.

[Casual Mystic]

Give me a pick and using alternate picking i can shred up and down the neck of an electric but on my classical with alternating i&m I'm slow. My left hand wants to move but my right is not cooperating. How can i boost my right hand speed?