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I am working on Windy and warm and I am having a problem with what you call rolling fingers in the second section. It is also in other songs (Yesterday and Classical gas at least) and I have look closely but I cannot figure out if you move your hand up with a slight rotation so that fingers will hit the strings in the proper order but without making your individual finger pulling the string (finger and hand move in one piece)or if you move your fingers one after the other.

I hope it make sense

Marc

Maybe the question was overlooked.

Marc

Marc,
I'm not working on that technique yet, but I do know that it requires a bit of practice to get it down. I think Chas, Bear or Greg was working on that one and should drop an answer in here for you fairly soon.

Thanks Andy, I would appreciate some feed back on this problem I am facing

Marc

I think of this as a very quick arpeggio.

Starting with the thumb and then each finger in turn.

It's a difficult thing to do at first and to start with it will go wrong more times than it comes out right.

It's worth persevering with because it's a cool effect.

Thanks Mark, I will give it try

When I do the quick arpeggio and my fingers are flat facing the strings, my nails kind of grab too much and if I turn my hand a bit to attack with the side of the nail, it doers not have much power.

Marc

If you are going to use your fingernails, then they have to be trimmed just right or they will snag strings which could break the string or break your nail.

I keep mine trimmed so that they just stick out a milimeter or two past the tip of my finger. Then I file them on the sides to make them slightly more rounded. Its the sides that curve down and grab strings.

AndyT wrote:

If you are going to use your fingernails, then they have to be trimmed just right or they will snag strings which could break the string or break your nail.

I keep mine trimmed so that they just stick out a milimeter or two past the tip of my finger. Then I file them on the sides to make them slightly more rounded. Its the sides that curve down and grab strings.

If you check out the thread on nail care it also describes how to file them correctly and this includes the inside of the nail as well as the outside.

Thanks guys, I will check the nail care better.

Marc