Classical Guitar Rest Strokes

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Classical Guitar Rest Strokes
Okay, now I’m going to show you a couple of advance methods that a lot of people use in their playing. This is a thing called rest stroke; it’s a different type of stroke than I showed you before. Rest stroke involves moving the hand back a little bit with the same motion I showed you earlier with the whole wrist, elbow and shoulder moving back. What you are going to do is when you play, you are going to play through the string and rest on the string below it. This produces a very loud, pronounced defined sound. It’s good for solo lines and a lot of Flamenco players use it for solo playing and things like that. So the way to practice it is just to very lightly play one note at a time; alternating fingers, preparing each note as subtly as you can getting the nail right where it needs to be prepared and just playing through each stroke. Eventually, practice this very slowly, you’ll get faster at it and you can use it for rapid passages.

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Expert: Chris Harold King has been playing classical guitar for over 10 years. He is currently pursuing an advanced degree in music theory and teaches lessons to students of all ages. Read More