[iplayflamingogooder]

Can anyone point me to a good resource on how to learn the full preparation technique? I guess you prepare i,m,a simultaneously after striking with p but i'm having trouble visualizing it or I would just like to see it done properly so I can be sure I'm practicing correctly.

Also, I have this book by corey whitehead and juan serrano that teaches to play arpeggios like i,m,a,m and i,a,m,a etc. and it says the proper way is to prepare each finger before it strikes a string. What is this book talking about? How does preparing fingers like this make you faster? It seems like it makes me slower but I've also hit a wall with my finger speed.

SOS!

[dzakovich000]

I have never heard of the "Full Preparation" but what I often do is I make sure my fingers are in a proper alignment. For me, this means that my wrist is not bent in a strange shape and my fingers are almost perpendicular to the strings. This provides for a stronger tone.

If you watch the Paco de Lucia video "Tico Tico," you can see how is hand is in a stable position during the arpeggio portions. This is a difficult song and I would recommend simply starting with one chord and doing P I M A M I and then changing the P string. So go P (6th string) IMAMI P (5th String) IMAMI P (4th string) IMAMI.

Start slowly and build up gradually. Before you know it, you will be able to roll around the strings and make beautiful arpeggios.