Classical Guitar Technique: Coordination

The most important basic skill on classical guitar: playing legato!

Percussive instruments have the basic issue: impossible legato. The first note has to stop before the new one can start, when playing on one string alone.

So staccato (or at least non-legato) playing is the rule. How can we create as much as possible a legato feeling, the impression of a continuous sound when playing lines on one string?

Here's a chromatic exercise to practice this fundamental classical guitar skill: changing plucking hand patterns meet a stable fretted hand pattern that create all finger combinations possible to work on both coordination an independence of the hands.

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00:00 How Is Your Legato?
00:26 Right Hand Legato: Impulse (1:11 Tone On Guitar)
01:35 Coordination Of Both Hands: the Stop-And-Strike-Paradox
02:17 The Chromatic Coordination Exercise
03:29 Basics Left Hand: Pressure, Release and Position
04:10 Coordination: 2-Finger-Combinations And (More Tasty) 3-Finger Patterns
05:17 See Me Fail!
06:29 Coordination vs. Independence of Hands and Fingers
07:05 Right Hand Thumb Added
08:17 3-Finger-Patterns Without Repetitors: 3 vs. 4
09:44 The Freaky Patterns
10:21 Final Recommendations: Play Beautifully!

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