Group 2
Breaking Your Scale Speed Limits with Eduardo Inestal!
Virtuosity and speed go hand in hand when it comes to freeing your musical expressiveness from technical limitations. One key element in classical guitar performance is the ability to play fast scales with ease. Together, we will explore exercises that will enable you to push your speed limits and improve your scale skills while retaining relaxation in both hands and gaining a richer tool set to express your musical ideas.
- Sign-Up Period: August 11 - 14
- Course Period: August 15 - 26
- Class Size: 4 Groups á 10 Participants
- Optional check-In via Zoom: August 23, 11 am PST
Assignment for the first week:
Play the first exercise (Slow) while paying attention to the following:
- Keep the tempo
- Always alternate i-m
- Be "lazy” (move your fingers, both right and left hand, and yourself as less as possible) to keep the relaxation
Do the same with the 2nd exercise (Faster tempo)
Once you control this exercise, you can gradually choose your tempo, increasing the bpm. Pay attention not to lose your relaxation!
Have fun!
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Hello everyone! I am eager to start my first 2 week intensive course. I have already taken two tonebase tutorials with Eduardo, so I’m looking forward from his teachings in this course. Here is my practice of the first exercise at slow tempo: https://youtu.be/_EN7No48L6s
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This faster one at approximately 250 was bit more challenging. Since we are playing these patterns in one continuous stream, it is essential to keep concentration during the transitions from one pattern to another, particularly with negative string crossings. I lost concentration in a few spots causing breaks, which I tried to recover.
Eduardo, please let me know your comments. Thanks!
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Hello Eduardo and Group 2,
I am so excited to participate in this challenge. I submitted the registration simply because I was appreciating your video on Adelita. Your detailed instruction to make this beautiful piece shine helped me enormously. Thank you!
I generally struggle with speed and playing at full volume, so when I saw your instruction videos for the challenge, I knew I was in the right place.
My challenges were:
1. Playing with apoyando
: I found it difficult to make clean sounds with apoyando. As you might notice on the videos, I often touch other strings unwillingly, and make buzzing noises especially when playing faster.
2. Speed
: Playing fast is definitely not my strength and I couldn't speed up upto 300bpm in a couple of days. I played at around 240 bpm and it is the fastest I could play at the moment.
3. Relaxation / release tension
: My pinky on RH gets tense and curled up when speeding up. If I try to tug in, it creates tension as well. Are there any tips on relaxing the pinky?
Thank you for reading and watching.
I would appreciate your insight on how to improve overall techniques.
Musically yours,
Teni
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scales group 2
Please find login information for Eduardo's Zoom Check-in on August 23, 11 am PST here. Feel free to post questions before the Check-In in the forum so Eduardo can prepare those.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88539131031
Meeting-ID: 885 3913 1031