Warm-up exercise

This exercise uses several different techniques and gives the right and left hands a bit of a workout.

The chords in the first bar are D-A-G-F# in arpeggios and picado, and the second bar uses the thumb and slurs to echo with Bmi-A-G-F#. The third and fourth bars are slightly more complicated variations of this. The fingering seen for the third bar adapts well to the first and fourth measure, but, in the second and third measure, it will mean using your middle and ring fingers on the same string to finish the arpeggio. I took the easy way when recording the audio file, and just used my index to grab that final note. The last bar is a transposed soleá falseta by Manuel Serrapí, "El Niño Ricardo."

Notice that, in the second and fourth bars, all the slurs occur on the first two notes of the triplet, so be careful not to unintentionally break this pattern for the figures at the fifth and eighth beats in the second bar, and the fifth and eleventh beats in the fourth bar.


 
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