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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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Exercise No. 3 by Eduardo 💪
Goals:
1) keep the tempo
2) Be as "lazy" as possible (move your fingers (an also your body) as less as possible).
3) increase the tempo gradually.
Start with 50 bmp and speed it up till 100 bpm Submit 2 videos with both tempos (slow and fast)
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Dear friends, here is a recording of yesterday's Zoom class for everybody who couldn't attend!
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Here is Eduardo's final video for his (more than) Two Week Intensive! 🌟
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EBsPbGViOM
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For Week 1, please look at this exercise!
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I am looking forward to this two-week study! I hope to improve both speed and efficiency.
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Don't forget to tune in to today's live stream with Eduardo!
https://guitar-community.tonebase.co/t/g9hnxj1/eduardo-inestal-breaking-your-scales-speed-limit
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Yes - Looking forward to it!
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Not sure when or where to post link to first practice video so I’m attempting to post it here: https://youtu.be/UrZn4HCAvr8
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Thank you so much for the feedback Eduardo. I will definitely take that approach. Looking forward to the next two weeks!
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Is the standard notation for the exercise available?
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Here's exercise 1. Playing slow is hard, lol.
I mostly only played apoyando to accent certain notes so this is tough especially since I played bass for years and it's fairly standard to "rake" with one finger when switching to a lower adjacent string. This took a lot of concentration, but it's giving me another tool so I appreciate that.
Any feedback is welcome.
Thanks
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I'm terrible at recording...
exercise 1 at 100bpm
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exercise at 120bpm