- I'm not going to said that the right hand is very importance in the technique, because the left hand has same value, but we give to the right hand this importance becuase the sound is made by it.
How to use the right hand :
Slide your forearm across the upper edge of the guitar without move your shoulder,
then move your hand along the strings.The hand position should be on the flexibility
and rest state without any tension in muscles.The sound you want to produce depend
on the position of the right hand,so your right hand would be either toward aginst the
saddle or toward the saddle, so if you pluck the string beside the bridge, the sound
would be more thin, if you pluck the string beside the sound hole the sound would
be normally.
- The moving of the right hand over the strings is started from the elbow then pass to the fingers not by stretch the fingers. At first playing, you'll find some problems by move your fingers over the strings, mean by move the same finger from string to another.with practice with some exercises you'll improve it.
Plucking the strings(Contact the strings with fingertips):
The plucking be formed with the flesh under the fingernail and then the tip of the fingernail (fingertips must make an engle with the strings), All of this happen in fast moving. the fast moving is very neccessary to get rid of any noise.
Fingers :
You are going to play with four fingers :
Thumb, index, middle, ring click here... to know more
- The fingers (index, middle, ring ) have three joints :
1st joint, 2nd joint (the middle joint), knockle joint.
- Different plucking, different joint :
- Take a look to this notation (A part from measure of Concerto de Aranjuez adagio - J.Rodrigo ) the playing of these notes need high speed movement of left hand fingers.The main joint using is the 2nd joint.
- There are tow kinds of plucking Rest-stroke (apoyando), and Free-stroke (tirando) click here...to know more
- The thumb: The movement of the thumb is basically starts from the wrist joint with little help from the tip joint.The way of plucking thumb to the string will be downward, not moving the thumb forward after plucking.
