Hello Merce. Hope you’re well. Just found your channel. I’m a total beginner at 61 but enjoying it immensely. Lessons such as this are invaluable in teaching correct techniques. I find your lessons so easy to follow. So well articulated. Thanks so much
Good on both you gentlemen for deciding to get into guitar, it's never too late to learn. If you would like any good classical guitar song recommendations to learn I'd be happy to show you some that help you learn to play yet sound great.
@@chrisbeaumont4630 very kind of you. I’m always interested in ideas for pieces of music to learn. But I’m really not very good at playing them! Thank you
Most guitar players are not aware that you can 100% transfer most classical guitar techniques to other guitar styles. A great example is what you teach in this video which has won you a subscriber. Not following your advise can lead to so much injury. This is the first time I have seen this concept explained so well. I had read about it but you made it crystal clear. Thank you so much
You're a great teacher - you keep it very simple and slow, focusing on the basic fundamentals. You also play with elegance and fluidity, which shows your excellent technique. Excited to follow your channel!
Hi Merce, I'm 68, and picking up the clssical lessons lately. I bought a Yamaha GC 3D 1971 and its quality really pushes me to continue. I played the guitar when I was still young but only had time since my retirement to concentrate playing classical. Your lessons are not only extremely helpfu--it goes into the most basic techniques that others do not cover. Besides, your sincerity is infectious. Thank you !!!
Merce, I've only recently found your UA-cam tutorials and want to thank you for providing instruction on basic concepts that are helping my playing immensely. I wrote and performed songs back in the 1970s and 80s and put my Martin in the closet for 40 years while focusing on a career and family. Upon retirement, one of my goals was to return to guitar and, much to my surprise, I found that I had forgotten 99% of what I had learned previously and that relearning was a greater challenge than I had expected After taking face-to-face lessons for a couple of years, I grew increasingly frustrated with my progress and thought of giving up. Then it occurred to me that I needed help with fundamentals such as hand placement, finger control, fretting etc. I really appreciate your providing this. I've no ambition to become a classical guitarist; I focus mostly on folk and blues, but your teaching seems to apply across genres. At least that's the case for me. I taught college for many years and learned the importance of boiling complex phenomena down to simple assumptions and actions. You do this wonderfully! Bravo!
Jazz guitarist here who has played with a pick or hybrid (pick + fingers) his whole life and is now starting to dive into the classical world for fun ☺️ greats tips. It’s actually quite interesting how different the electric and the classical guitar are as instruments… for me, electric bass is a much closer instrument to electric guitar than classical guitar is.
Thank you Merce! I've been slowly trying to learn classical guitar and have had lessons from 3 different teachers over the course of 3 or 4 years now. Not one of them ever talked about how the fingers will naturally return to their starting position if you focus on letting the entire hand relax. Fantastic lesson, thank you!!
I'm a Jazz guitarist newly obsessed with trying to learn classical guitar. It's a frustrating and humbling experience. Thank you so much for these extremely valuable guidelines which are fundamental to proficiency in technique and good sound.
Hi there! How’s it going with the transition so far? I play mostly jazz chord melody stuff and consider playing a nylon string as well as learning and applying some right hand technique to have some of this unique sound and feel under my fingers
Thank you Merce for making this video. I really like your style of instruction. It's clear and concise. Right hand technique is so fundamental and something I've been struggling with. Please continue making more instructional videos. Thank you again!
Thanks for the tips, good to know. My guitar teacher told me the most important thing is to never have long fingernails on your right hand. Never keep them longer than what is needed for a normal life style, you see you need the skin to build a good tone.
I am so glad to have discovered your tutorials. These are the sort of refinements I would have learned from my stepfather, who played classical guitar, and even studied under Segovia; but he has Parkinson's now, and can only advise me by phone-NOT the same experience! Thank you so much.❤
As someone that was classically trained and because life happens and ended up in electrical for years (not that there’s anything bad in that) this little things are the crux of my existence when I come back to it. Thanks for the video:)
Thank you, Merce. Are you Catalonian? I am 39, I have lived in Cubellas for 5 months in 2008. I know to play guitar from age 13. But now I am learning classical guitar. I use the mothod book of Julio Sagreras - Las Primeras Lecciones de Guitarra. I needed some advice for the right hand and I dropped on your tutorail. You are a very good teacher. I also needed advice for the nails. Good luck
Hi, first of all thank you for all the important pointers for classical guitar beginners like myself. I can't help it but have to say that its easier to learn from a good-looking teacher. Having said that I fell your earnestness in wanting to share and teach. You're someone with passion for the art that you do and for teaching. I want to say that I really do appreciate that. Thank you for all the help because my fellow students and I need all the help we can get. Merci !
The comment you made in regards to the thumb position being unnatural has freed me from months and months of torture. I can continue my journey without the worry now. Thank you kindly. 🙏
Thank you so much for this. I am primarily a rock/blues/metal player and any finger picking stuff I learned was in that "world" so more like the incorrect pluck. So in trying to learn classical guitar this has been my biggest roadblock and none of the previous videos I watched did a good job of explaining it like you did.
yay! I love it as well! the guitar maker did an incredible work there, one day I'll make a video on that so that you can know the massive work he did... 😊
That's very true. You are using flex and release. What you should mention is how you get from string to string. You either move from the elbow or from the shoulder in order to keep the fingers in mid range.
Hello! This was such a lovely video and I really hope you see this. While practicing getting my finger to return to the quick position quickly, I found a really useful "trick": instead of focusing on making your fingers move to play the strings, focus on your forearm. All the muscles and tendons that control your fingers are in your forearm, and somehow this change of focus from your finger to your arm makes it much easier to get your fingers to snap back into position. So to anyone reading: pretend youre "pulling" the strings with your forearm and not your fingers
I am 45 today, I have bought a beautiful Esteve classic, I spare 5 month for it. I always kept. I took course when I Ad and things like that were not working. I was 20 I wasn’t practicing between lesson so no. Progress but always believe that I will return. Today I need to feel my saoul. I think I am ready to work. And I am so happy I keep my espèce she is ebautdfulk. Thank you for your teaching.
Tus vídeos son extraordinarios muchos de ellos resolvió problemas, la música de fondo que utilizas en tu vídeo no permite prestar toda la atención que te mereces Gracias por tu generosidad me dará gusto tomar clases contigo
This is a very good video for me as I am working on improving my right hand technique. I tend to tense up my hands when I concentrate on learning a piece. Consequently, I have started to experience some pain. I really need to learn to relax the fingers and developing economy of movement. This is so important.
Hello teacher, I have greatly improved my performance on the guitar by watching your videos and applying your knowledge and advice, it has been very difficult for me to play in a relaxed way, mainly in the scales, but little by little I have been overcoming it, thank you, I am not lost none of your videos.
I just went to my TikTok to check my ukulele plucking, and I'm absolutely doing that upwards pluck when I play fingerstyle 😅 Good to know. Now I can at least fix it.
Thanks. You 've got a very important class here, especially for me, as im preparing to start learning finger plucking soon. Im still a beginner. Want to tidy my strumming, chord transitions, etc then dive into finger plucking. I subscribed.
Fabulous! This corrective video has done more to help me than any teaching session from any source in years. I also play 12-string guitar (my hero is guitarist/composer Ralph Towner), and as you know the spacing between string pairs on a 12-string is much narrower than between individual strings on a classical guitar. I have struggled for a long time to cleanly play just one pair of strings without hitting an adjacent pair when plucking. That problem immediately went away when I applied the lessons in this video, as did right-hand muscle cramps. I will be applying other video lessons from you, and I am thrilled to subscribe to your channel!
Aww thank you so much!!! I'm so so happy to read you finally found the way! Happy to put such videos out to help you :) Wish you lots of progress with them!
Hello Merce, thank you for the excellent video regarding the right hand technique. Your explanations are very precise and detailed. I've been playing the electric bass for a long time and my whole life I've had the problem of not being able to play particularly fast. But your explanations showed me a few new points that might help. Maybe I can get further with this :-) Good luck and all the best for your career! Thomas
Hello Thank you for this vidéo. I'm a beginner on classical guitar and these exercises will help me a lot. How to practice the rest stroke ? Best regards from France.
Hello. Firstly, thank you for sharing with us this important content for the guitarist base. I would like to know if you would be able to share some content focused on sound, as I have a lot of difficulty finding this sound. If you could share any references, I would really appreciate it!
I get the basic concept here, but I'm having a hard time integrating the "bounce back" technique into actual playing. It feels like when there is alternation, the finger that just played needs to stay in the palm until the next finger executes its stroke. And of course timing of the next stroke depends on the music, so it stays under tension until it can alternate. Maybe the idea is just to get in the habit of returning the fingers as a relaxation, rather than an additional exertion? Thank you for making all of your videos. They're very helpful to someone who learned his technique from some very outdated books years ago.
This is so perfect and exactly what I was looking for/ I've been trying to learn and struggling with tension and pain on my wrist and tendons. You are a life saver!
Guitarist here! I want to learn to play the classical guitar. I'm not so worried about my left hand because I'm used to stretches, pull offs etc. but the right hand movements are foreign to me. I never plugged with my fingers.
Yeah, that's quite a change! Start with easy finger patterns and arpeggios and slowly build you right hand dexterity to a similar level of your left hand. Way to go chris! :D
Thank you very much. Been looking for a good video like this one for a while. Trying to get back into classical guitar and couldn’t figure out why I kept missing strings with my right has I played. If you don’t use it, you lose it I guess!!! But It all makes sense now. Just have to rewire my brain again. Gotta go practice now! Thanks again!
Hi, so grateful. I subscribed to your channel. Can you point me towards a lesson that you might've posted on right hand finger indepence, especially between m and a fingers? Thanks
This exercise has significantly increased my awareness of finger strokes. I recently discovered your channel and have found your videos helpful. Thank you!
Merce this is what I discovered this morning. After my thumb reached it's proper place on the neck, the wrist went into the correct position and the elbow came down. One bad habbit affected the other in the past. When the thumb was out of place I tried to compensate with improper body position. This is no longer prevalent. I read, perform several pieces, then practice two or three of your exercise, the read more. I repeat this several times every morning. I also try to take classical arpeggios and try to use them in simpler forms like in a two chord song, then add cut time, trippletts, and tremolo. However, when I play in front of my friends, i tighten up and forget passages of guitar that I can play everyday. I will not play in front of strangers because I feel I am not ready. I sing in front of people quite regularly and I do not have stage fright or worry about who i sing in front of or where I sing. I have to get over this phobia. It might sound bad but I am not worried, thanks to your exercises, because it gives me hope for the future.
no worries, is very normal to tighten up! try to play pieces you are very very very comfortable with for people as often as you do and eventually you'll start to get more control of the performance part of it. Most of all, have fun while doing so! :)
Hello Merce. Hope you’re well. Just found your channel. I’m a total beginner at 61 but enjoying it immensely. Lessons such as this are invaluable in teaching correct techniques. I find your lessons so easy to follow. So well articulated. Thanks so much
Thanks a lot Ian! I'm happy its useful for you! Keep up the good practice! 🙌🏻
Also a 60's absolute beginner friend. Perfect practice makes perfect work is my Grandfathers skill lesson.Merce also I think!
Good on both you gentlemen for deciding to get into guitar, it's never too late to learn. If you would like any good classical guitar song recommendations to learn I'd be happy to show you some that help you learn to play yet sound great.
@@chrisbeaumont4630 very kind of you. I’m always interested in ideas for pieces of music to learn. But I’m really not very good at playing them! Thank you
I'm 60 and going little by little very hard for me but looking forward not to the back
Most guitar players are not aware that you can 100% transfer most classical guitar techniques to other guitar styles. A great example is what you teach in this video which has won you a subscriber. Not following your advise can lead to so much injury. This is the first time I have seen this concept explained so well. I had read about it but you made it crystal clear. Thank you so much
Absolutely. Any good classical guitar players can do shredding on electric guitar effortlessly.
@@ojsojs6004 not until they've re-learned their right hand technique with a plectrum though
@@ojsojs6004Not all, there is a plethora of techniques needed for "shredding" that classical players never practice.
Thank you for the video. It is an important technique.
You're a great teacher - you keep it very simple and slow, focusing on the basic fundamentals. You also play with elegance and fluidity, which shows your excellent technique. Excited to follow your channel!
Точное, наглядное и лаконичное описание приема игры! Огромное спасибо!
Hi Merce, I'm 68, and picking up the clssical lessons lately. I bought a Yamaha GC 3D 1971 and its quality really pushes me to continue. I played the guitar when I was still young but only had time since my retirement to concentrate playing classical. Your lessons are not only extremely helpfu--it goes into the most basic techniques that others do not cover. Besides, your sincerity is infectious. Thank you !!!
Merce, I've only recently found your UA-cam tutorials and want to thank you for providing instruction on basic concepts that are helping my playing immensely. I wrote and performed songs back in the 1970s and 80s and put my Martin in the closet for 40 years while focusing on a career and family. Upon retirement, one of my goals was to return to guitar and, much to my surprise, I found that I had forgotten 99% of what I had learned previously and that relearning was a greater challenge than I had expected After taking face-to-face lessons for a couple of years, I grew increasingly frustrated with my progress and thought of giving up. Then it occurred to me that I needed help with fundamentals such as hand placement, finger control, fretting etc. I really appreciate your providing this. I've no ambition to become a classical guitarist; I focus mostly on folk and blues, but your teaching seems to apply across genres. At least that's the case for me. I taught college for many years and learned the importance of boiling complex phenomena down to simple assumptions and actions. You do this wonderfully!
Bravo!
I do play w/ a Pick so it's easier to make a good sound by simply striking the strings.
Just the information I was looking for; And found nowhere else. Thank you so very much.
Jazz guitarist here who has played with a pick or hybrid (pick + fingers) his whole life and is now starting to dive into the classical world for fun ☺️ greats tips. It’s actually quite interesting how different the electric and the classical guitar are as instruments… for me, electric bass is a much closer instrument to electric guitar than classical guitar is.
very true!
If only I could access such valuable information, when I was a kid, excellent explanation! 🥰
Gratidao , simple & direct
These tips are so precious, thank you so much, master Merce !!
My pleasure! wish you a great day! :)
Thank you Merce! I've been slowly trying to learn classical guitar and have had lessons from 3 different teachers over the course of 3 or 4 years now. Not one of them ever talked about how the fingers will naturally return to their starting position if you focus on letting the entire hand relax. Fantastic lesson, thank you!!
A sincere Musician sincere with Her Music
I'm a Jazz guitarist newly obsessed with trying to learn classical guitar.
It's a frustrating and humbling experience. Thank you so much for these extremely valuable guidelines which are fundamental to proficiency in technique and good sound.
Nice, hope it helps and brings you a bit of joy during your practice sessions :)
Hi there! How’s it going with the transition so far? I play mostly jazz chord melody stuff and consider playing a nylon string as well as learning and applying some right hand technique to have some of this unique sound and feel under my fingers
I’m new to the classical guitar world, coming from playing blues and Rock. I love your tutorial videos. Thank you for making them
Very good teacher, thank you !!!
Great lesson, thank you.
Thank you Merce for making this video. I really like your style of instruction. It's clear and concise.
Right hand technique is so fundamental and something I've been struggling with. Please continue making more instructional videos. Thank you again!
I'll do my best to bring more tutorials very soon, for sure! Glad it helped you! Stay well and keep practicing! :)
Total agreement, her teaching style is so easy to watch and learn from.
Thanks for the tips, good to know. My guitar teacher told me the most important thing is to never have long fingernails on your right hand. Never keep them longer than what is needed for a normal life style, you see you need the skin to build a good tone.
I am so glad to have discovered your tutorials. These are the sort of refinements I would have learned from my stepfather, who played classical guitar, and even studied under Segovia; but he has Parkinson's now, and can only advise me by phone-NOT the same experience! Thank you so much.❤
As someone that was classically trained and because life happens and ended up in electrical for years (not that there’s anything bad in that) this little things are the crux of my existence when I come back to it. Thanks for the video:)
🙏🏻
Awesome ! Thanks for the great video :)
Thank you, Merce. Are you Catalonian? I am 39, I have lived in Cubellas for 5 months in 2008. I know to play guitar from age 13. But now I am learning classical guitar. I use the mothod book of Julio Sagreras - Las Primeras Lecciones de Guitarra. I needed some advice for the right hand and I dropped on your tutorail. You are a very good teacher. I also needed advice for the nails. Good luck
Hi, first of all thank you for all the important pointers for classical guitar beginners like myself. I can't help it but have to say that its easier to learn from a good-looking teacher. Having said that I fell your earnestness in wanting to share and teach. You're someone with passion for the art that you do and for teaching. I want to say that I really do appreciate that. Thank you for all the help because my fellow students and I need all the help we can get. Merci !
Thank you! Thats so sweet of you to write this:) really appreciate the kind message 🥹
Bi thanks for the videos I’m 55 and just started playing classical love it
The comment you made in regards to the thumb position being unnatural has freed me from months and months of torture. I can continue my journey without the worry now. Thank you kindly. 🙏
That's great! happy that was useful :)
Spent two years on this right hand alone w my teacher. I sucked. But it made me pretty good on electric.
Very good video. I've been playing electric for over 20 years, and I still polish my touch every time I practice. I find it very enjoyful.
Thank you so much for this. I am primarily a rock/blues/metal player and any finger picking stuff I learned was in that "world" so more like the incorrect pluck. So in trying to learn classical guitar this has been my biggest roadblock and none of the previous videos I watched did a good job of explaining it like you did.
That rosette is amazing!
yay! I love it as well! the guitar maker did an incredible work there, one day I'll make a video on that so that you can know the massive work he did... 😊
Missed this class back in the day. I moved on to electric (picked) and my left hand felt great but the right hand… *sighs* really nice class.
That's very true. You are using flex and release. What you should mention is how you get from string to string. You either move from the elbow or from the shoulder in order to keep the fingers in mid range.
Very useful! Thanks for your teaching.
I am primarily a metal shred guitarist and I am looking at getting into classical style guitar playing. This is a good video to start with. Thank you.
Now this is a very valuable lesson, there is an improvement already with my playing, especially picado
Thank you very much !!
Hello! This was such a lovely video and I really hope you see this. While practicing getting my finger to return to the quick position quickly, I found a really useful "trick": instead of focusing on making your fingers move to play the strings, focus on your forearm. All the muscles and tendons that control your fingers are in your forearm, and somehow this change of focus from your finger to your arm makes it much easier to get your fingers to snap back into position. So to anyone reading: pretend youre "pulling" the strings with your forearm and not your fingers
I am 45 today, I have bought a beautiful Esteve classic, I spare 5 month for it. I always kept. I took course when I
Ad and things like that were not working. I was 20 I wasn’t practicing between lesson so no. Progress but always believe that I will return. Today I need to feel my saoul. I think I am ready to work. And I am so happy I keep my espèce she is ebautdfulk. Thank you for your teaching.
Tus vídeos son extraordinarios muchos de ellos resolvió problemas, la música de fondo que utilizas en tu vídeo no permite prestar toda la atención que te mereces
Gracias por tu generosidad me dará gusto tomar clases contigo
Very good and usefull🎉✨
This is a very good video for me as I am working on improving my right hand technique. I tend to tense up my hands when I concentrate on learning a piece. Consequently, I have started to experience some pain. I really need to learn to relax the fingers and developing economy of movement. This is so important.
amazing, thank you so much!
Gracias a ti!
Hello teacher, I have greatly improved my performance on the guitar by watching your videos and applying your knowledge and advice, it has been very difficult for me to play in a relaxed way, mainly in the scales, but little by little I have been overcoming it, thank you, I am not lost none of your videos.
I just went to my TikTok to check my ukulele plucking, and I'm absolutely doing that upwards pluck when I play fingerstyle 😅
Good to know. Now I can at least fix it.
Thank the fore arm part was very helpful even without my guitar I feel the difference in my hand playing from forearm verses fingers
Thanks.
You 've got a very important class here, especially for me, as im preparing to start learning finger plucking soon.
Im still a beginner.
Want to tidy my strumming, chord transitions, etc then dive into finger plucking.
I subscribed.
Fabulous! This corrective video has done more to help me than any teaching session from any source in years. I also play 12-string guitar (my hero is guitarist/composer Ralph Towner), and as you know the spacing between string pairs on a 12-string is much narrower than between individual strings on a classical guitar. I have struggled for a long time to cleanly play just one pair of strings without hitting an adjacent pair when plucking. That problem immediately went away when I applied the lessons in this video, as did right-hand muscle cramps. I will be applying other video lessons from you, and I am thrilled to subscribe to your channel!
Aww thank you so much!!! I'm so so happy to read you finally found the way! Happy to put such videos out to help you :) Wish you lots of progress with them!
Thank you so much for this. This is a valuable knowledge for people like me whose just starting to play classical guitar. Cheers.
Thank you Allan!!! Very happy to read that!
Hola, Merce, encantado. Soy un guitarrista aficionado japonés.
Recientemente he encontrado su canal. Es muy útil y fácil de entender. Muchas gracias.
Thank you 🙏🏻 Merce Font. Valuable insights and tips. Greetings from Texas.
Thanks you Pavan for watching! Best wishes to you and practice well!
Hello Merce, thank you for the excellent video regarding the right hand technique. Your explanations are very precise and detailed. I've been playing the electric bass for a long time and my whole life I've had the problem of not being able to play particularly fast. But your explanations showed me a few new points that might help. Maybe I can get further with this :-)
Good luck and all the best for your career!
Thomas
The only VDO that explained RF importantes. Very useful 🎉🎉🎉 enjoyed alot
Glad to hear that!
thank you !
Hello
Thank you for this vidéo.
I'm a beginner on classical guitar and these exercises will help me a lot.
How to practice the rest stroke ?
Best regards from France.
Hello. Firstly, thank you for sharing with us this important content for the guitarist base. I would like to know if you would be able to share some content focused on sound, as I have a lot of difficulty finding this sound. If you could share any references, I would really appreciate it!
Very helpful lesson. Subscribed! Thank you!
A valuable lesson, especially for students who are just beginning. Thanks for sharing. Excellent work.
Thanks a bunch. Very helpful. Wish I had learnt this earlier
how can these tips be applied to tremolo? Could you please do a video about tremolo technique?
Thanks!
Thank you so much! Very kind and generous of you!
Very good video...thanks
this is very important for me. tx a lot for your kindness and generosity
You are very welcome :) thank you for your kind words!
Thank you, best teacher ever
Thank-you Merce for a focused lesson. Easy to understand.
You are welcome!
Thanks I'm just starting today✅
Yes Maestro. Classical guitar fingering lesson exercise perfect. Thank You.
Thank you! This was very helpful 😁
It’s very interesting. I guess I have to do this since I am playing incorrectly.. gracias..
I get the basic concept here, but I'm having a hard time integrating the "bounce back" technique into actual playing. It feels like when there is alternation, the finger that just played needs to stay in the palm until the next finger executes its stroke. And of course timing of the next stroke depends on the music, so it stays under tension until it can alternate. Maybe the idea is just to get in the habit of returning the fingers as a relaxation, rather than an additional exertion?
Thank you for making all of your videos. They're very helpful to someone who learned his technique from some very outdated books years ago.
I really benefit from your instruction but the music in the background is distracting. Thank you and I love your playing.
Hello, I'm 68 and relearning the guitar. I have alot of old bad habits that effect my tone. This video helps alot. Thank you.
awesome! keep it on John!
This is so perfect and exactly what I was looking for/ I've been trying to learn and struggling with tension and pain on my wrist and tendons. You are a life saver!
I'm so glad!
Thank you for your time. I appreciate your dedication. May I please ask ,do you have a video on nail shaping?
Really very precious techniques
Thank you so much 😊
Guitarist here! I want to learn to play the classical guitar. I'm not so worried about my left hand because I'm used to stretches, pull offs etc. but the right hand movements are foreign to me. I never plugged with my fingers.
Yeah, that's quite a change! Start with easy finger patterns and arpeggios and slowly build you right hand dexterity to a similar level of your left hand. Way to go chris! :D
Thank you! I wish i knew it last year!
Thank you! It is a very helpful and useful video. I am a beginner guitar student. I am going to use it.
Awesome! Wish you lots of progress!☺️
Very nicely elaborated
Thanks a ton
Most welcome!
Thank you very much. Been looking for a good video like this one for a while. Trying to get back into classical guitar and couldn’t figure out why I kept missing strings with my right has I played. If you don’t use it, you lose it I guess!!! But It all makes sense now. Just have to rewire my brain again. Gotta go practice now! Thanks again!
Glad it was helpful! Wish you success in your rewiring!! 🙌🏻😃
Thank a lot it is very precise !
I still wonder what to do with the 5th finger... a clue ?
This is great, thx! It would be even better with the constant background music off or at least at lower volume, it's a bit distracting tbh.
Thank you for this video, this answered a ton of questions for me what exactly should I practice!
Awesome! glad to help :)
Thanks.
Excellent lesson thank you!
:)
Wow this is gonna completely fix my technique if been putting a ton of stress on my shoulder
incredible pedagogy, I'm self teaching and yor lesson was a bless, thank you!
Muchas gracias Alvaro! Me alegro que te ayude!
Thank you so much
aww thank you! happy to read it helped you! 😊
On the right hand should i start using a pick or the fingers.
Which one should I start with
Para sentir que lo hago bien gracias
Thank you Merce for a great lesson.
Thank you! 😃
Very detailed explanation. Very good. Systematic explanation. Thank you very much.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you!
Welcome!
hope you've got more videos coming on tips and technique etc .
Yes! Working on it! sit tight! :)
Hi Merce, your teaching is fantastic but don't you think the underground music is distracting from the relevant?
Hi, so grateful. I subscribed to your channel. Can you point me towards a lesson that you might've posted on right hand finger indepence, especially between m and a fingers? Thanks
Thanks for the advice, clear, and very helpful.
You're very welcome!
This exercise has significantly increased my awareness of finger strokes. I recently discovered your channel and have found your videos helpful. Thank you!
Great to hear!
Hello Merce
I just found you
Great lesson,i so preciate it
Thank you! 😃
Merce this is what I discovered this morning. After my thumb reached it's proper place on the neck, the wrist went into the correct position and the elbow came down. One bad habbit affected the other in the past. When the thumb was out of place I tried to compensate with improper body position. This is no longer prevalent.
I read, perform several pieces, then practice two or three of your exercise, the read more. I repeat this several times every morning.
I also try to take classical arpeggios and try to use them in simpler forms like in a two chord song, then add cut time, trippletts, and tremolo.
However, when I play in front of my friends, i tighten up and forget passages of guitar that I can play everyday. I will not play in front of strangers because I feel I am not ready.
I sing in front of people quite regularly and I do not have stage fright or worry about who i sing in front of or where I sing. I have to get over this phobia.
It might sound bad but I am not worried, thanks to your exercises, because it gives me hope for the future.
no worries, is very normal to tighten up! try to play pieces you are very very very comfortable with for people as often as you do and eventually you'll start to get more control of the performance part of it. Most of all, have fun while doing so! :)