Public Space for Improve your Scales with Eduardo Inestal!
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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Here are additional exercises by Eduardo!
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My biggest problem is to relax, trying to relax, and keeping my back muscles from tensing. If I can master this, it would be a huge step forward.
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Ricardo Leaños We all struggle with that! but the key is to pay attention until we dont need anymore to pay attention. Practising slow is the key...!
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Difficult to understand what you are saying. It seems like you are some distance from the microphone and the room is very "bright" and echoey. Maybe it's just me but I'm really straining to hear this.
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Robert Carrigan I didn't have any trouble with it. Maybe try headphones if you didn't already.
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Robert Carrigan Hi Robert, sorry to hear it. I checked it and it seems to be fine. Maybe your headphones or speakers? Let me know if it works for you.
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Eduardo Inestal When you did the introduction with Martin I could hear him clearly but not you, so I believe that would eliminate my headphone/speakers as a possibility. It sounds like your room is very "bright" and the microphone is some distance from you. Not trying to be difficult but I really looked forward to watching this and learning something. You are a great player and teacher, it's not that I can't understand anything, much of it I can, but I really have to strain to do so and some of it I have to go back 2 or 3 times to get an idea of what you are saying.
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Robert Carrigan I have the same issue. It is hard to understand you. I turned up my volume and still not clear. And this is a MacBook Pro.
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Robert Carrigan I thought it was only me.
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Robert Carrigan if those are Wilson Sasha speakers with Moon amplifiers, your sound system is definitely not the problem!
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Phill Tadman Thanks, you are correct!
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Robert Carrigan
Hi Robert, sorry to hear that. I believe for this video there is nothing i can do. I will try the next one to be more clear. Maybe martin has an Idea where the issue is or what can we do about it.
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Robert Carrigan Nice room for study!
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Very interesting approach of the scales Eduardo and very good explained the "whys" and "hows".
I will introduce them in my daily scale exercises. I hope to be able to send a video but I am not sure. Muchas gracias for this contribution !
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Nora Torres-Nagel Muchas gracias a ti. Looking foward seeing your videos!!
Cheers!
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Hola Eduardo,
yesterday I did a first video and today the second one. It is difficult for me to think about which finger when playing at a quicker tempo...but I have tried to let the fingers go even when I was not sure if the finger was the right one. Still a low tempo anyway. Thanks in advance for your attention.
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Nora Torres-Nagel
HI Nora, Thank you very much for your videos!
Let me congratulate you for your good position! Your RH is excellent!.
There are a couple of things you can improve. Lets work:
1. The first thing I would suggest is to play this exercise a bit slower in order for you to control the Rhytm Patter. I would like that you were able to play without any interruption or correction, because then, our fingers are going to save this "wrong" information, therefore are going to play it always wrong... So, slow down the tempo and concentrate in the Rhtym. It may help you thing about the following:
if you are getting troubles with the rhythm, there is one trick you can use: Use animal names:
For 4 notes say: Tarantula or caterpiller
For 3: Elefant (or butterfly)
for 2: Beetle (or dolphin)
for 1: Cat
So for the patter 4-3 could be: caterpiller-elefant caterpiller-elefant... etc
It may help you to stay focus.
The second thing I would like to point it out is that your 4 finger (LH) is a bit to tense, and contracts itself, so I would love you to try to having it a bit closer to the frets/strings, in order to be more relax. You are going to increase precision and is going to take less time and effor to reach the strings.
Hope it help you!
Cheers!
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Eduardo Inestal thank you very much for your suggestions. Absolutely rigth ! the pinky LH was tense although I did not realized!
I WILL WORK ON THESE POINTS!
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To help myself with the tempo I did a metronome with 2 beats to get the tempo (with sixteenth notes) and then the beat for every first sixteenth note from the group. Maybe it can be useful for someone. There are files from 60 to 100 bpm. An inconvenience: mistakes are not allowed, the metronome is not smart as we need... Thank you, maestro!
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Moyses Lopes Awesome job with the metronome! Thanks for sharing it.
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I didn't apply to participate in Zoom sessions (I arrived late) and decided to join here, in the public space, but this is the only video to this course? Is there no assignment for the second week?
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Moyses Lopes Oh, I will share these videos here in a second!
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martin You're a gentleman!
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Moyses Lopes very good Moises ! I was wondering also about the othar videos of Eduardo but with so many things to practice/play I have not "reacted". Gracias for doing it.
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