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Tips On How To Play The Classical Guitar : Fingernail Shaping on Classical Guitar

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Uploaded by on Apr 23, 2006

Learn the correct and incorrect ways to shape the fingernails on your playing hand in this free video clip on how to play the classical guitar.

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  • @Audiodemonz youre just another ignorant purist who refuses to accept that picks can be used on a classical guitar to get a unique tone. there is no purely right or wrong in music. im a classical guitarist and a percussionist. there is marimba music that calls for me to use the wooden end of a mallet. mallets werent designed to be used that way, but they are, because they give off a unique tone.... just like a guitar pick.

  • @ciano15 People look so ignorant when they play nylon strings with pick.

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  • Man, you can find anything on YouTube these days XD

  • @artistssoftpastels I'm pretty sure nylon strings are designed for their sound not for finger only use. Like Ciano said using a pick with nylon strings gives off a unique sound that is nothing like using a pick with steel string.

  • @artistssoftpastels thats not true at all. if that were the case, surely respected composers wouldnt notate a pick to be used on certain parts of pieces. Also, the pick was invented around the 1400s and was used on anything from lyres and lutes to the strings themselves of the harpsichord. There are no limitations on music, just the ones close-minded people choose to create. Using a pick on nylons strings cant possibly be worse for them than a flamenco player wailing with all 5 nails.

  • I'm a nail biter too, on a personal note I like finger picks versus growing my nails out, and i have personally broke a finger nail, and it AIN'T NO LAUGHING MATTER! IT HURTS LIKE HELL, but can't brake a metal finger pick, whis what i would rather play with anyway, everybody is different! Do what works for each person and the sound you are after

  • @ciano15 thats what i meant . srry for my english im romanian

  • @duderock009 be more specific. telling a metal guitarist to use a pick isnt ignorance, but telling a classical guitarist to use a pick is.

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