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Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar
From: |
Rachael Thomas Carlson |
Subject: |
Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:59:09 -0500 |
On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 00:48 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Well, in classical Guitar-scores the strike-direction is _always_
> > related to the pitches.
What does that mean?
>
> Even for 0-14-14-13-0-0 ?
>
> > ↑ means from bottom-pitch up to top-pitch. Always. I'm not aware of
> > any exception.
Up-arrow, as indicated above, is a strum, or pluck with a plectrum,
towards the floor.
> >
> > In notated Flamenco-guitar-music the same.
> >
> > Only in guitar-music to be played with a pick it's the opposite.
> > This inconsistency is disturbing.
>
> To be fair: with a pick you can play a single string in either direction
> and pitches are no longer a help for figuring stroke direction. When
> playing classical guitar, you don't play a single string with the back
> of a finger. A tremolo is done by alternating fingers, not by reversing
> the stroke direction.
>
In Flamenco as well as in fingerstyle guitar there are instances where one
produces a tremelo by rapid strumming with the index-finger of the right hand.
Another instance, in classical guitar, would be in the first movement of
Kazuhito Yamashita's transcription of Dvorak's Ninth Symphony. I don't have a
copy of that readily available. But it is a quick succession of the index
finger back and forth across the strings. I do have examples in fingerstyle
guitar (Leo Kottke) where strike direction is indicated by arrows within the
tablature. An ^ up-arrow indicates a strum towards the floor.
Rachael
source: degree in guitar performance
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, (continued)
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, Pierre Perol-Schneider, 2013/06/08
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, Pierre Perol-Schneider, 2013/06/08
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, Federico Bruni, 2013/06/08
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, Federico Bruni, 2013/06/08
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, Thomas Morley, 2013/06/08
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, Pierre Perol-Schneider, 2013/06/08
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, Thomas Morley, 2013/06/09
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, Federico Bruni, 2013/06/10
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, Thomas Morley, 2013/06/12
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, David Kastrup, 2013/06/12
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar,
Rachael Thomas Carlson <=
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, Thomas Morley, 2013/06/12
- Re: picking up/down symbols in flatpicking guitar, Federico Bruni, 2013/06/12