I decreed June bulerías month in order to sand down some of the rough edges I've accumulated in my practice.
Some ways I've remedied that.
- Imprecise rasgueos
- no command of speed, always feeling like I'm catching up
- no confidence in falsetas
- no confidence in picado
- relying too much on the base compas, not approaching the palo with much inspiration
Some ways I've remedied that.
- warm up with metronome and palo seco rasgueos (albañico, three/four finger, controlling wrist movements for maximum power and precision, periodically testing sound by playing some chords
- focused on playing one falseta in progressively faster speed using VLC player
- finding the more difficult parts to play and playing them as per the recording of teacher
- marking the compás to grasp the feeling of the falseta in time
- playing the falseta with solo compás, to test being in time
- rinse and repeat