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Fingerstyle Practice Tips
Hi all
Does anyone have any good practicing tips for a fingerstyle player that tries to emulate Martin Simpson and Martin Carthy? Things like good economy of motion, hand position, different types of attack, etc. I’m mostly playing in Csus2 (CGCGCD) tuning right now but ‘tuning ambiguous’ practice tips would be greatly appreciated. Any thoughts / good resources out there? Thanks Chris
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Here are the items that you should be working on:
Start like the classical guitarist do: Giuliani's 120 right hand studies. Tedious but they build a good foundation. Then go to You Tube and google right hand classical guitar training. YOu will have enough to work on for years. Good luck Eric
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Hi Chris,
I’m sure YouTube will have a few helpful videos. Seems there is always someone willing to show the basics and beyond of virtually any style of play. Blues |
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Fretting hand work would need legato, hammers and pulls workouts to build up strength and accuracy. The speed will come later.
As stated there are endless right hand arpeggio drills. Enough for a lifetime. |
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Check out Tommy Emmanuel on Youtube. He's got lots of good tips for learning guitar, particularly fingerstyle stuff. They seem basic, but if you work on these points, the rest should follow regardless of what songs you're learning in whatever tuning.
Off the top of my head: Practice a lot. Learn songs. Spend most of your time on the hard bits that you haven't mastered yet. Learn each song to your satisfaction before moving onto the next. Focus! Once you've got the difficult bits down, practice the song with a metronome. Yes, a metronome! Have fun. If you're not having fun, you're probably doing it wrong. Learn how to put on a capo correctly, without throwing your strings out of tune. Pay attention to hand placement and guitar tone. Vary as you see fit. Apply the above to learning your favorite songs from your favorite guitarists and all should go well. Check out Tommy, his attitude is infectious, as is his good sense. |
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Find a comfy chair, a foot rest, good posture, and have at it.
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Thanks all. Good tips from everyone. I should have mentioned, despite asking for help, I’m not a beginner. Probably late intermediate. Finger independence is pretty good.
I’ll take the advice of learning some of the classical guitar stuff though, that is something I’ve not explored.
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Anyone playing any Martin Carthy stuff?
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Check out Stephen Wake on Bandcamp. You might be interested in purchasing some of his music and tabs. He writes primarily in Orkney (CGDGCD), but his "touch" is something worth emulating.
His slower tunes are a good lesson on letting the notes "breath". Here's one of his tunes, which happens to be in CGDGAD:
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Play a lot. Play hours every day. Record yourself and listen - did you deliver the music? If not, where did you fall short? What can you do to deliver that music? Is it to change the arrangement? Is it to get something smoother? The recording doesn't lie. Martin Simpson lives the music. I don't know Martin Carthy except for recordings. Simpson plays for hours every day and has for decades. He can hear all by himself whether he is delivering the music. Those of us who have music as a secondary thing in life need to record and listen. Your ear is sophisticated. Would you pay to hear the artist who recorded what you are listening to (yourself!)? Why or why not? You can and should be brutal with yourself. If you are advanced intermediate, this can take you to the next stage.
Oh, and use a metronome. |
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I mainly learned things by nailing tunes and applying those revelations to learning the next set of tunes. On at least some pieces try for totally memorization, lack of hesitations, practiced finger placement to avoid buzzes and unintentionally muted adjacent strings.
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I just picked up a guitar and began using all the digits on my picking hand. A whole lot of stumbling and coordinating later, by the end of one year I could pretty much play everything I had a curiosity to play. But, I had the deep seated desire to play the guitar to keep me pushing through many long hours of practice. I did not buy any traditional lesson books because, well, 6 strings and 5 fingers, what's not to understand about the task of learning to finger pick? A book of chords and a book of alternating bass picking (aka Travis Style) were my only purchases. Anyway, you can formalize it up the kazoo or just start finger picking and I'd lay odds that you'd end up with similar skills at the same place on the timeline.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgwV1-941PI&t=60 He's chosen a specific chord and specific right hand pattern (from a Villa Lobos piece), but the exercise can be applied to any chord which you're arpeggiating using thumb and three fingers. It's about dynamic control of each finger - as well as (of course) steady timing of the 8th notes.
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