Comments on: Technique http://miguelbengoa.com Retraining and relearning to play guitar Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: miguel http://miguelbengoa.com/technique/#comment-23 miguel Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:16:07 +0000 http://miguelbengoa.com/wordpress/?page_id=15#comment-23 Obrigado para seu comentário! Eu estou muito feliz você gosto do site e eu sou pesaroso que houve nada de novo por alguma hora, mas sustento que volta porque eu estou preparando agora alguma música para você. Pesaroso para meu português terrível, mas mantenha por favor voltar! ;) Miguel Obrigado para seu comentário! Eu estou muito feliz você gosto do site e eu sou pesaroso que houve nada de novo por alguma hora, mas sustento que volta porque eu estou preparando agora alguma música para você.

Pesaroso para meu português terrível, mas mantenha por favor voltar! ;)

Miguel

]]> By: rogers carneiro http://miguelbengoa.com/technique/#comment-22 rogers carneiro Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:12:37 +0000 http://miguelbengoa.com/wordpress/?page_id=15#comment-22 Miguel, sou brasileiro, do Rio Grande do Sul, você já deve ter ouvido falar desse estado é o estado onde nasceu Yamandu Costa, eu só quero dizer que seu site é muito bom mesmo eu toco guitarra classica a 5 anos e estou me interessando muito pelo flamenco os estilos mais focados até agora eram os de músicas como: músicas tradicionalistas gauchas que eu não sei se você conhece e também MPB, Reggae e Rock, mas o flamenco sempre me chamou atenção, agora estou começando a tocar também o seu estilo... Obrigado pelo site e pela força que você da para todos que realmente querem aprender a tocar violão de forma correta!! Miguel, sou brasileiro, do Rio Grande do Sul, você já deve ter ouvido falar desse estado é o estado onde nasceu Yamandu Costa, eu só quero dizer que seu site é muito bom mesmo eu toco guitarra classica a 5 anos e estou me interessando muito pelo flamenco os estilos mais focados até agora eram os de músicas como: músicas tradicionalistas gauchas que eu não sei se você conhece e também MPB, Reggae e Rock, mas o flamenco sempre me chamou atenção, agora estou começando a tocar também o seu estilo… Obrigado pelo site e pela força que você da para todos que realmente querem aprender a tocar violão de forma correta!!

]]> By: Tom http://miguelbengoa.com/technique/#comment-21 Tom Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:21:34 +0000 http://miguelbengoa.com/wordpress/?page_id=15#comment-21 Hi Miguel, Excellent information for a beginner like me, especially learning how to relax when playing. Thanks. Tom Hi Miguel,

Excellent information for a beginner like me, especially learning how to relax when playing.

Thanks.

Tom

]]> By: Miguel http://miguelbengoa.com/technique/#comment-20 Miguel Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:31:33 +0000 http://miguelbengoa.com/wordpress/?page_id=15#comment-20 Hi there! Sorry about taking such a long time to get back to you but I have been busy of late. Don't get stressed about technique: the important thing is not the technique but the feel and rhythm. You are most certainly not biting off more than you can chew. I have some students starting this coming weekend (20-21.10.2007) and I intend to post their lessons on the site which you can follow if you like. We will be starting off with some very basic stuff... please feel free to comment and make any suggestions as we go along if you like. Miguel Hi there!

Sorry about taking such a long time to get back to you but I have been busy of late.

Don’t get stressed about technique: the important thing is not the technique but the feel and rhythm. You are most certainly not biting off more than you can chew.

I have some students starting this coming weekend (20-21.10.2007) and I intend to post their lessons on the site which you can follow if you like. We will be starting off with some very basic stuff… please feel free to comment and make any suggestions as we go along if you like.

Miguel

]]> By: Chuck http://miguelbengoa.com/technique/#comment-19 Chuck Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:23:24 +0000 http://miguelbengoa.com/wordpress/?page_id=15#comment-19 I am 42 years old. after nearly 30 years of playing rock, blues etc., I find myself hungry to learn flamenco. However, I am concerned about my own (bad) old habits and the physical demands that appear to be involved with flamenco. My question: do you have any advice for an "old dog trying to learn new tricks" that can help me to develop the skills for flamenco? Or could it be that I am biting off more than I can chew? Also - even though I have only read a little of your site, it has been very helpful! Thank you! I am 42 years old. after nearly 30 years of playing rock, blues etc., I find myself hungry to learn flamenco. However, I am concerned about my own (bad) old habits and the physical demands that appear to be involved with flamenco.

My question: do you have any advice for an “old dog trying to learn new tricks” that can help me to develop the skills for flamenco? Or could it be that I am biting off more than I can chew?

Also – even though I have only read a little of your site, it has been very helpful!

Thank you!

]]> By: miguel http://miguelbengoa.com/technique/#comment-18 miguel Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:22:46 +0000 http://miguelbengoa.com/wordpress/?page_id=15#comment-18 Hi Greg, I have to confess that I do not really read music very well at all. Most of the music that I have written here has been done using TuxGuitar software which allows me to input tablature and hey presto - a score is printed. I then play around with the rhythms to get the compás as I desire. Regarding your question however, I think that you will find that pont. means as you say "by the bridge" and nat. means "natural": that is nearer the sound hole. I hope that helps. Hi Greg,

I have to confess that I do not really read music very well at all. Most of the music that I have written here has been done using TuxGuitar software which allows me to input tablature and hey presto – a score is printed. I then play around with the rhythms to get the compás as I desire.

Regarding your question however, I think that you will find that pont. means as you say “by the bridge” and nat. means “natural”: that is nearer the sound hole.

I hope that helps.

]]> By: greg hall http://miguelbengoa.com/technique/#comment-17 greg hall Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:27:09 +0000 http://miguelbengoa.com/wordpress/?page_id=15#comment-17 what do pont. and nat. (abbreviations above the stave ) mean ? is it where u position your right hand i.e. pont. = by the bridge ? any help musch appreciated greg what do pont. and nat. (abbreviations above the stave ) mean ? is it where u position your right hand i.e. pont. = by the bridge ?

any help musch appreciated

greg

]]> By: miguel http://miguelbengoa.com/technique/#comment-16 miguel Mon, 21 May 2007 16:05:32 +0000 http://miguelbengoa.com/wordpress/?page_id=15#comment-16 To be perfectly honest - I don't really know ;(. I assumed that it meant "redondo" - round. In other words, I imagined that he was referring to playing rasgueados in a rounded, full way rather than scrappy and without definition. Does that help? To be perfectly honest – I don’t really know ;(. I assumed that it meant “redondo” – round. In other words, I imagined that he was referring to playing rasgueados in a rounded, full way rather than scrappy and without definition.

Does that help?

]]> By: miguel http://miguelbengoa.com/technique/#comment-14 miguel Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:06:52 +0000 http://miguelbengoa.com/wordpress/?page_id=15#comment-14 Play it anyway you like, but I think that it is very beneficial to always work on your weakest techniques. So, I spend a lot of time practicing arpeggios and tremolos and don't work so much on my thumb. Play it anyway you like, but I think that it is very beneficial to always work on your weakest techniques. So, I spend a lot of time practicing arpeggios and tremolos and don’t work so much on my thumb.

]]> By: andhika http://miguelbengoa.com/technique/#comment-13 andhika Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:21:38 +0000 http://miguelbengoa.com/wordpress/?page_id=15#comment-13 Can a Flamenco player use only tirando when playing a melodic lines? My apoyando can't play as fast as if I play tirando.. Can a Flamenco player use only tirando when playing a melodic lines? My apoyando can’t play as fast as if I play tirando..

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