A lesson on deciding right hand fingering for arpeggio patterns over five or six strings in both ascending and descending situations on classical guitar. This is from my book: Right Hand Fingering for Classical Guitar: Concepts and Case Studies. This book aims to give students a basic criteria for justifying fingering choices and gaining confidence in deciding fingering for themselves. The combination of concepts and case studies offers a framework for approaching fingering in both logical and musical ways. Here’s the Youtube link if you want to watch it there.
This video covers Examples No.26-29 from the book (Page 17-20).
Video Lesson Times
- 00:00 Intro
- 1:45 Ascending 5 Strings
- 5:25 Ascending 6 Strings
- 9:53 Descending 5 Strings
- 15:16 Descending 6 Strings
I am considering buying this book. However, I have a question I haven’t seen answered elsewhere. I come from a background of 50+ years playing electric and acoustic semi-professionally. I just added a classical guitar. I can play extremely difficult hybrid picking, in particular warp speed modern country 🙂 You mention classical players rarely use finger ‘c’. Why is this? In hybrid picking you have to use the ‘c’ finger subconsciously to get in all the flurry of notes 🙂 I am wondering if I should break my habit of going for the ‘c’ finger. Thanks.
Because of the way classical guitarists push the string rather than pluck side to side on a string the c finger is a bit cumbersome in this regard. It can still come in handy in special circumstances and in flamenco strumming but in general training the picky rarely results in the consistent and evenly balanced sound that we get from the other fingers. I’m not say people shouldn’t use it if they want to, just that, in general, classical guitarists simply don’t use it much.