Slurs: Basic Daily Exercise Routine + Free PDF
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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I just put together a new video that I hope might be useful to many of you to use as a daily routine. This time we are focusing on the SLURS TECHNIQUE
Just like the previous routine, in this video, you will listen to my indications about how to practice these routines with the correct technique in order to maximize efficiency and gradually get rid of tension or unwanted movements.
My aim and hope are that playing along with this video every day as part of your warm-up routine, will help you to integrate these essential concepts into your playing in a very smooth and easy way manner and develop a much more steady, precise, and effortless Left Hand Technique.
I hope you enjoy it and please, let me know what you think about it! 🤗
Yours,
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Really. valuable slurs technique and workout videos ..thank you so much for posting! Pumping Nylon has one doing similar exercises at the 1st position, but changing to higher positions as you recommend really gives one a chance to focus on the different feel of doing slurs based on the changing action. Also some valuable tips on other technical aspects on which to focus, such keeping parallel with the frets for pull offs (last video). Thanks again!
Thank you for your awesome feedback! Hope you get some great practice sessions with this video! :) Wish you a great sunday evening!
Extremely helpful. It's like having a real teacher in front of you. Thank you very much.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, Merce... this has been the best exercise for strengthening fingers and making playing effortless. After this workout, I immediately feel playing pieces much easier and smoother. You are the BEST teacher ever!
This combination of slurs fundamentals tutorial and slurs workout is great. Extremely effective. Thanks Merce.
You're very welcome!
Another tip: consider a lower tension string set. You can always increase tension in the future. I'm currently using Knobloch ERITHACUS BIO Nylon 31.5. These are some fantastic strings and have made my Alhambra 7P much more enjoyable to play. I used your "4 DAILY EXERCISES to develop a great LEFT HAND" for about a month before digging into this one. I think it's a terrific workout in and of itself and especially helpful towards this workout.
Thanks! Really appreciate the contribution about the tension, very very true! :) Glad the workout is showing results! keep it going! :)
I am sending this to all of my students. Thanks a lot ♡
Wonderful! Happy to help! I'll bring more of these workouts in the near future!! :D
Your videos are amongst the best classical guitar content on UA-cam. Excellent information and production quality.
Thank you Merce and take care! :)
Wow, thanks! Doing my best to contribute to the beautiful community of classical guitar 😊
Terrific exercise workout, presented in a perfect format. The work works. Your work is appreciated. Thanks!
Thanks Merce I wish you all the best in your life ❤
We are so fortunate to have this online. I think you are an amazing teacher. Will spread the word. Back to studying.
Thank you very much! That's always a very kind and helpful gesture! 🙏🏻
As usual Mercè, thanks very much for taking the time to make these play-along videos. It helps immensely to self-learners like me :) If you want ideas for more, how about 3 and 4 note slurs? I'm working on some Sagreras studies and it's killing me 😣😣
Hi Oscar! Sure I will do more advanced versions of the routines, first I want to cover the basics as I might need to refer to some concepts of essential stuff in more advanced videos, but I'm definitely going to be working on different difficulties of slurs as well :) Keep tight with Sagreras and isolate difficult passages, that always helps to master them and feel a bit more at ease when you play the entire piece :)
Graceful, effortless playing, and economy of movement are the traits of an expert master. :)
Greetings, dear Merce!! Thank you 🙏🏻 once again for this wonderful video/session. It is so very valuable, with exercises and insights, and is already giving me confidence to get back on slurs. And I can visualize how improved the playing can become. Thank you 🙏🏻 for your time and effort .
You cover the basics and all the required details so well, yet make it look so easy. Plus the helpful hints. I will be looking forward for more videos from you, and specially on tremolo, if that is possible, sometime in the future.
Best wishes to you always. Have a wonderful weekend and week ahead.🙏🏻👍🏻
Hi dear Pavan! Always so happy to read you! Definitely tremolo is one of the topics I'd like to cover in the near future. Despite that, I have to say that, as there are some important things to have practiced/trained before to have a more complete/detailed approach to the tremolo, I'm trying to cover al of these basic concepts so that when I do a more advanced technique I can refer the audience to simpler concepts videos in case they need it for their level or educational 'gaps'. This way the youtube audience can still have a somewhat complete overview of the whole picture despite such videos not being as personalised as it can be a one to one lesson :)
@@MerceFont Thank you 🙏🏻 dear Merce. Yes, I completely agree with your plan. Needless to say, all your videos and lessons will be so very valuable to everyone, to focus and master the basics and progressively use them to improve and become better musician. Once again, many thanks, and Best Wishes to you always.
Workout is right! I don't know Merce, whether to thank or curse you! I've been faithfully doing your slur exercises for about three weeks now and my left hand fingers feel as if they are ready to fall off! I am making sure my hammer-ons are accurate (my 4th finger needed special attention, as I want hammer-ons with that finger as close to the nail as possible). Also, I am paying special attention to 4th and 5th finger hammer-ons and pull-offs, since they are weak as compared to other fingers and seem to need the most work. OMG, Merce... my fingers are so tired, but I will remain faithful to this practice, because obviously I need it! Thank you so much!
Fantastic!!!! Lo practico a la vez que el vídeo como tu sugieres y me ayuda muchísimo a practicar técnica. Please make more!!! Thank you so much gracias…
Ouchee......I managed to do the whole routine along with you but was glad it was over when it was. I was ready to rest for sure. This one really pointed out my weaknesses, namely the 2-3, 3-4 finger pull-offs (excuse me "descending slurs") I feel pretty strong on the majority, but can see the benefit of having a daily routine. I mean I've been walking for about 58 years and do it every day and still stumble from time to time. You would think I would have that shit mastered by now.😋
Nice. The melody starts to grow on you after 15 min of practice.... :) Thanks for posting.
Wonderful video!! And with a free PDF!! Thank you very much Merce for all the effort you put into your videos, they have helped me a great deal 🙏🙏🙏
Nice! It makes me so happy to read this! Stay well and keep the good practice!!! 😊
You are a great teacher! You have made truly valuable videos. I find descending slurs really challenging
Indeed they require a bit more control from the finger that's staying behind to hold the pull off!
Very very helpful. And using your videos practicing your videos copying your videos copying you I'm watching my progress. This is about the fifth video I've seen on slurs and yours is the most applicable the most helpful. as a matter of fact I just found you this week and many of your videos are the best I've seen. You're a great teacher.
This video made my practice much more interesting. Thank you for sharing it with us ☺️
I'm so glad! These workouts take me a lot of time to make but I definitely will be uploading more sessions in the future! 😊
شكراً ميرسيThanks Merce🍀Saudi
Thank you for your content.
Great workout, Merce!! Thank you so much!!
You're so welcome! :)
As always thank you Merce for taking the painstaking time to do these very helpful videos. Take care and have a wonderful week 🙌❤ 😊 🎸
Thank you! Hopefully I can get back to youtube soon! Hope you are well :)
@@MerceFont Hi stranger, I've missed you. I hope you and yours are well and good and I hope to see you back here and other platforms as well soon. Take care mi Amiga ✌🏼🙏🏼🤗❤
Gracias Preciosa, por tu noble labor, me encanta el tipo de técnica que te usted enseña con belleza y dedicación. Mil bendiciones.
Thank you. You are very clear and very generous. Your instruction is very helpful. Thank you,
So nice of you!
Thank you so much! It was great!!
Glad you liked it!
Very good work out 😮
Ciao Merce,grazie per queste lezioni :D
Grazie mille Giuseppe!! sono contenta che puoi seguire il workout nonostante sia in inglese :)
@@MerceFont Con i sottotitoli purtroppo e per fortuna
2:52 for daily workout
Amazing !! Thank you!
Thank you too!
Merci, I really need to work on these.
Please do!
Thank you so much for this. I'll try to do it every day because the bach piece I'm learning has tons of slurs!
Awesome! good luck with back! :)
@@MerceFont it's the violin partita in B minor bwv 1002 no. 6 - Double. I'm having a lot of trouble with it 😂
"No pain no gain, in musicians many times is just pain = tendinitis" had me floored laughing ahah
hope you didn't go to hard on the floor though! hahaha😃 stay safe and keep practicing! ✌🏻😊
2:56 Timestamp for beginning :)
Love your instruction! I wish I'd had it when I started.
I guess... better late than never! 😁
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somehow your voice and that exercise is very relaxing :)
Oh thank you! hahah 😄
Hi
This was nice and doable
As I am a beginner
Thanks 🙏
Wonderful! Glad it was helpful! :)
Nice exercise
Thank you for watching!
Thank you for making this video. Would you recommend increasing the tempo to make it more challenging ? Have a great day 😎
Yes, if you feel you are in control of the movement and sound you definitely can!
My slurs are really bad so this is a
perfect for me.
Nice! So glad to read is helping you! If you practice along with the video and pay close attention to details you will soon start to see big improvements on precision and control of the slurs for sure! :)
Merce, when you do your extended routine, from the seventh fret down to the first and back up again, do you just do mixed slurs (on the basis that they include both the ascending and descending slurs) or do you continue to also separately practice the ascending and descending slurs as well? Also do you practice at a faster tempo than demonstrated here?
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You play guitar as Beutiful as you look!!!
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Thank you for the perfect explanation! :) :) Which (not to hard to play) pieces (or parts of pieces) do you recommend to play in order to develop slurs more in context?
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Merci, j'essaie d'apprendre en regardant même si je ne comprends pas ce que vous dites.
Despite the english, I hope the multi camera helps you to understand it, its totally doable 😊
Me gustan tus vídeos pero no entiendo tu idioma. Estaría muy bueno si pudieras subtitular. Saludos! En castellano, claro
What is the name of the piece in the end? It sound a bit like the chorus to cliffs of dover :)
Some copyright free happy guitar music ahahaha
Help :( my pull off slur sometimes sounds like open string and sometimes like the same fret i am holding next to it! what am I doing wrong?
probably sync issues when the left hand finger land on the string. Try to land the fingers on the fretboard again right when your right hand plugs. If the problem is that you are touching the string below with the left hand practice first the circular motion to be a little bit smaller from 'pressure downwards on the fret, release and finger rotates back on to the string'. Sorry it's hard to explain, but you can hopefully understand what I mean watching the video :)
Wonderful! But I don’t think I can do it
I'm sure you can! slow the video down if it helps for the first sessions ;)
pdf download page is broken.
Hi! I just tested it myself and it does work. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 min to receive the email with the download link. Did you get the email with the download button?
@@MerceFont nope. and the "submit" button on the web page was inert.
You didn’t explain the exercise
There is a full tutorial on slurs if you need, watch that first (link in the description). For following up with the workout download the PDF so you can have every exercise written down and know what comes next. This way you can use the video for daily warm up and not waste time on re listening the explanation of the same exercise over and over again, that's the point of such 'workout videos' :)