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Classical guitarist Segovia

The Ace
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12/28/2003 2:25 am
Hey for any of you out there that know a lot about segovia -
i have a question
Did he ever use some type of pick?
I was listening to the album Art of Segovia and on a few songs it sounded like he was using a pick.... but then again it could just be that he has been playing so long that he had built up his fingers to play like that.

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Lordathestrings
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12/28/2003 7:32 am
He used his fingernails.
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12/28/2003 7:37 am
yeah he used his fingers and nothing but. you don't use a pick on a classical guitar
To improve technique and of course trying to keep all as clean as possible. I know my own limits and speed limits and so on I never play anything I'm not capable of. That wouldn't make any sense. After three years of playing I tried to play everything as fast as possible and that sounded, I would say, like shit, and I didn't realize that if I'd play bit slower things than I was capable of playing then everything would sound much better.

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12/28/2003 12:19 pm
Classical Guitar is Fingerpicking only. Professionals spend hours to put their fingernails in shape. And there is no strict rule for that - everyone has a different technique to work on the nails.
there are also alot of guitarrists who dont use their nails - they just use the fingertips, which have grown pretty hard skin.

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12/28/2003 3:45 pm
thanx - he was the first real classical guitarist that I have gotten into... so I was just wondering
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12/28/2003 3:59 pm
Originally posted by Azrael
there are also alot of guitarrists who dont use their nails - they just use the fingertips, which have grown pretty hard skin.


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