classical question

[guitarpreston]

im working on recuerdos de la alhambra. if youve done it can you give me any tips other than play til my hand cramps up and fingers bleed?

[BigDaddyLH]

It's a proverbial finger-buster, eh?

[guitarpreston]

For me yes. Other people maybe not

[Jalpow]

All I can say is you really have to let your right hand fingers relax and give it a light touch with your tremolo. Having long filed nails helps too.

[tfsails]

That's the widest neck I've ever seen on a guitar. Twelve strings and he wasn't even using six of them. That's a style of guitar-playing that I'll never be able to do. To the OP--good luck figuring this one out!

Hearing music like this on a guitar makes me realize that not only am I not a musician, but I'm nowhere near a guitar player, either.

[guitarpreston]

I finally worked through it last week. It's nowhere near done but I've made my way through it

[BigDaddyLH]

Originally Posted by tfsails

That's the widest neck I've ever seen on a guitar. Twelve strings and he wasn't even using six of them. That's a style of guitar-playing that I'll never be able to do. To the OP--good luck figuring this one out!

Yepes? Yes, those extra strings are really just sympathetic strings. They are not meant to be ordinarily played and are tuned:

[tfsails]

I had to sit there and look at this for a minute or two. Finally figured it out. What an interesting way to tune the guitar! My guess is that the other four strings are free to ring harmonically with the others, right?

What do you call that type of guitar? I've never seen one before. Guess I just assumed that since I saw a lot of tuners that it had to be a 12-stringer. That's what I get for assuming!

[BigDaddyLH]

Originally Posted by tfsails

I had to sit there and look at this for a minute or two. Finally figured it out. What an interesting way to tune the guitar! My guess is that the other four strings are free to ring harmonically with the others, right?

What do you call that type of guitar? I've never seen one before. Guess I just assumed that since I saw a lot of tuners that it had to be a 12-stringer. That's what I get for assuming!

Yes, those string are just there, according to the Yepes, "also incorporates all the natural resonance that the instrument lacked in eight of twelve notes of the equal tempered scale". Narciso Yepes was by far the best known player of this guitar.

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