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What is the right hand fingering that you use for the opening scales?

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What is the right hand fingering that you use for the opening scales?

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I performed it two different ways. The first time I did it legato (slurred) and the second time after the repeat I did it apoyando (rest stroke) using m-i. The first is legato which is the way I think sounds best and if I were to record it again today this is the way I would play the scale both times. I should be honest about the reason for the apoyando the second time around. The choice was not a musical reason, because I think that it sounds best slurred. Using apoyando the second time was to show that I was also able to play it that way. Today I would not do that since I think the musical idiom of the guitar comes out much better playing legato. Ex: Villa-Lobos Etude No.7 (ligado) / Villa-Lobos Etude No.7 (picado) What about the bossa nova feel to the arpeggio section? It was funny, it was just by chance. I found that if I did not concentrate myself in the rhythm the bossa nova feel came right out, because the arpeggio in this case works like that. I realized how much better and nat

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