For the past 15 years I’ve had this passion to play Flamenco guitar but have done nothing about it until now. Two weeks ago I purchased a nylon string guitar am I am loving it! I’ve been working out of Gerhard Graf-Martinez’s Flamenco Guitar Method Vol I book for the past couple weeks and it’s going really well. My only criticism of the book is that there seems to be nothing on picado. Perhaps this comes into play in Vol II or maybe in traditional flamenco most single note lines are only played with the pulgar (thumb). Yet, I watch great players like Paco De Lucia and Ottmar Liebert and picado is very much integrated in the flamenco music they play. To me, picado seems to flamenco music’s most challenging technique. Everything else but perhaps the Glope has come to me relatively easy. I think its best I start working on it now than later. After giving it a lot of thought about how to go about it, the runner in me is saying to take an athletic approach.
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