1.Picado - Ben Woods Flamenco Guitar Techniques

Rest in peace. We lost a great musician.🥲

do you ever alternate your thumb with your first or second finger to do piscado? If no, why isn't it recommended? I like your pinching of your thumb and first finger. I'm going to try that.

Is there economy picking on picado?

Which type of guitar are you using?

picado is very picante to play man...hard to play fast.

Nails or no nails?

Your tips on economy of motion and and keeping your fingertips close together really helped me and finally allowed me to get a clean picado run! Thank you!

Thank you for the splendid motivation !

Shred in paradise Ben ♥️

Do you give private lessons?

Que rayos fue eso

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RIP Ben

Thanks :3 Love you!

Glad to see you mentioned the slip technique, that was always a question of mine when it came to doing fast runs with classical; however it was not fully addressed. Do you find the slip technique is slower or faster than strict alternating when doing picado? Thanks Ben, really appreciate the insight!

Pure gold of a lesson!

This wonderful, thank you!

I searched a lot. You are the best. Can you make a video tutorial? I love the mohicans🤩🤩

I've never played with a pick cuz I always used that lil' finger trick from the end!

I don't have fingernails and I'm doing this with metal strings, I should really go get some fake nails or my fingerprints will be gone soon

Is it vital to have the nails?

excellent presentation, nice and slow. unlike that hairy chuth fcuker who cant speak loud

Hi Ben, just started watching your videos as I'm trying to add some flamenco into my guitar playing. Could you please share with me the make and model of your guitar, or direct me to a website that sells decent flamenco guitars? Thank you!

con cuan dedo empiezas amigo , el indice o el medio, parece ser el medio pero no estoy seguro, with wich finger you start?

Greatest master in Spanish classical guitar
Love you

U are superb pro

Are there bass players in here watching?

Great lesson

Your vids are painless and right to the point.
Flamenco is an incredible style!

Thank you

Great opportunity to practice your major scale at the same time:
E 2 4
A 1 2 4
D 1 3 4
G 1 3 4
B 2 4
e 1 2 4
You can play it anywhere on the fret board

Anyone call tell me, when I play picado then I use my finger tips or nail?

How long should one practice to come this far bro?

Hi,what's different between Picado and Apoyando?

With nails or fingers

So do you also sometimes use an up, up, down. down. up, up, down, down etc. picado picking technique to get more speed? I've worked with that technique a bit. It is hard to get it up to high speed at first without getting stuck on a string somewhere, but when it works it sounds great since it is easier and faster than attempting to play the notes with the traditional alternating stroke picado technique.

Awesome! Love it. Thank you.

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

I am a bass player and its far more practical to do that slip technique for economy of motion and speed (it actually has a name and it is called raking picking, used by countless professional bassists). I don't know why EVERY guitarist teacher that shows how to Picado tells not to slip and to always alternate but nobody gives a reason why that would be a good choice. This is the only picado lesson I could find where slipping through strings seems valid and i really agree with you, sir

Great videos Ben thank you. Very insightful and useful.

Ben Woods is so sympathetic! It's even satisfying to watch him explain the thing lol

I like how he says " it seems to make a little more sense for my body!" .... personally I think there are so many different techniques and styles now and going back in time that the idea of "one proper way" is limited! When I look at old clips of Sabicas compared to modern Flamenco guitar, I see him doing things sometimes differently but also I see sometimes the modern trend is too locked into (perhaps) stemming from what Paco de Lucia did (which was of course based on what older generations and players did)! I kind of see a similar thing within blues guitar ... so many people wanting to sound like a particular (or a few ) well known blues guitarists that they don't want to find their own voice. I think in the old days in both of these cases, sometimes there were players who discovered their own way and later , those ways became "the standard" (because they were popular and well liked!). But there should be and needs to always be room for players to have their own way and their own voice!

Ben - Thanks for being real and not locked into the merry-go-round of Musical Bullshit. - -- --- -- Like the style too!

Good job bro 👍🏼

Спасибо из России. Супер.

Thanks man, i have got a couple of questions for a long time and found answer in this video

nice

Fuck u ben woods F ,U ass hole