Antonio Rey's "pyramid" picado exercise

A simple but efficient apoyando/picado exercise to develop speed and stamina as shown by maestro Antonio Rey in an older video (if I remember correctly). It can be done i-m and m-i
Vassilis Lazarides flamenco guitar
Dogal Diamante strings

[@flarodrigues]

Perdona, pero este estudio no es de Antonio Rey, sino de mi Maestro David Cerreduela y su papá el Maestro “El Nani” de Cañorroto.

[@andreaskikinas]

Hello. I did not know that. Thank you for letting me know! You are an amazing player!!

[@suavemola]

Y de Jesús de Rosario también

[@IoannisDimitropoulos-guitar]

Great Andreas!! Thank you for sharing!! 😊

[@andreaskikinas]

Thank you for the comment!

[@konstantinozer6459]

its like my daily vibes how they go up and down..

[@andreaskikinas]

😄😂🤣 hilarious comment!!

[@konstantinozer6459]

@@andreaskikinas 😁😁😁 respect 😇

[@CelticMedievalGuitar]

great!!! After seeing this performance I will cut off my fingers...

[@andreaskikinas]

Oh dear no 😂. The intention is to inspire studying even for a few minutes a day with these exercises and see yourself getting better. If played slowly everyday, gradually speeding up a few bpm every few days, keeping relaxed hands all the time, those simple exercises work wonders.

[@CelticMedievalGuitar]

ok thanks then I will listen to your advice and hide the big scissors

[@andreaskikinas]

@@CelticMedievalGuitar 😄😂🤣

[@TamerMallak]

thank you very much! where you see this exercise Antonio Rey play?

[@andreaskikinas]

Hello. Thank you for the comment. I searched again thanks to you and found it. It is here www.eliteguitaristflamenco.com/programs/antonio-reys-picado-routines-advanced-level it is the only free video. I noticed he uses an extra open e each time he descends. But it still works🙂 Cheers!

[@TheSoundofTanay]

This is great! Thank you. Could you recommend some songs to practice where Picado is important?

[@andreaskikinas]

Thank you for the comment! Generally these kinds of exercises help as when playing scales. They are technical exercises to build speed and stamina in general. Picado is a name flamenco players are referring to apoyando kind of playing. So generally any song/piece that contains a scale passage can benefit from this kind of exercises. Of course apoyando is always accompanied by a well trained tirando which is what is mostly used in guitar playing. If I had to say just one piece that definitely needs better trained picado it would be Panaderos Flamencos, but it all depends on the level one is currently studying. This simple Antonio Rey's exercise can help any level guitarist and I show it to all my students.

[@TheSoundofTanay]

@@andreaskikinas thank you, it’s very kind of you to give detailed advice like that. I’m trying to learn flamenco techniques on my own, and your video has certainly helped me.

[@Shafaq69]

❤pls share tabs

[@andreaskikinas]

Thank you for the comment friend. If you play it at slower speed on youtube you will see it is very simple, just 1-2-3-4 and going to the next fret, nothing complicated I hope.

[@globalonemusic2381]

With the highest respect, this video offers ZERO. What is missing is the most important component of "speed development. And that is HOW to develop speed. This should include scheduled metronome marking increases in two, three and four day increments, as well as suggested "duration periods". Such as, 5 minutes....increase the tempos, then 10 minutes and increase the tempo, etc. etc. Trust us, a video showing someone playing fast is NOT a "tutorial" on HOW to develop speed. We hope this helps. :)

[@andreaskikinas]

With all the respect, this is not a tutorial. And also this is not actually fast. It was meant to showcase Mr 's Rey's study. If you play for example Villa Lobos 1st etude in it's proper speed why on earth complain that the performer is not showing the development of the study? I am afraid you just misunderstood. Thank you for taking the time to write a comment anyway. Wish you all the best. Cheers!

[@JordanPaul.M]

How officious.

[@globalonemusic2381]

​@@JordanPaul.M Yes. :) Keep in mind that it is precisely because of pedagogy predicated upon such "math" that an global generation of guitarists, pianists, etc. HAVE become stellar technicians in so short a period of time. It is called "standardized learning". Because of such learning methodologies, we gratefully have a generation of guitarists who, at 14 to 23 years old....ARE far better skilled technicians than Segovia could have hoped to have been. And because of that, they can play anything they chose because they developed all technicals skills....first. :) Lastly, I have observed that you have called me "officious"....yet you never stated that I was "wrong". :) Just a thought. :)

[@JordanPaul.M]

@@globalonemusic2381 Interesting to see developments in so many areas of music, guitar certainly isn't an exception - I agree. I also never underestimate the drive and will of a passionate autodidact. I was only referring to the original post which was quite presumptuous of your video, and I thought it to be unwarranted; not your reply to it, which I agree with. I should have clarified. Cheers :)

[@globalonemusic2381]

@@JordanPaul.M I must clarify that I am not an autodidact. I was taught that the guitar is a "machine" and my responsibility was to be the best "mechanic" I could be. Only then would I be able to play anything I chose to play. A perfunctory example of this would be to have a student spend a month or so developing a 16th note tremolo to 160 B.P.M. as an abstract technical development exercise and then, learn Requerdos de la Alhambra in two weeks. Too many people "learn the tremolo" while they are learning the piece. This is never good because the tremolo....IS the piece. The "mechanics" should always exist before..."The Music". :) I hope this helps. :)