3-Finger-Rasgueo

The downstroke and upstroke with the fingers can be combined in countless ways, and there are two different kinds of rasgueos: the finger rasgueo and the hand rasgueo. The most important thing about the finger rasgueo is building up a short tension in the fingers and then flicking them off immediately. In the past, the 5-finger rasgueo was still in use (q-a-m-i or q-a-m-i-p) whereas today, the 3-finger rasgueo is most commonly used. The less fingers are involved in playing a rasgueo, the more difficult it gets to keep the intervals between the fingers. The result should always be a definable and transparent rasgueo. ?Strumming? is frowned upon nowadays. Again, the thumb is placed, or rather anchored, on 6 and is bent. The basic position is the same as that of the one-finger ....

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