Analyzing the Guitar Technique of Pepe Romero

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5 ай бұрын

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@guitar4mysoul44 3 ай бұрын

You are welcome for the footage, I chased them around for 15 years to get that all that slow motion stuff was from my HD camera at his house

@heidi7029 5 ай бұрын

Oh wonderful! I was hoping for an analysis video on Pepe. I love these, thank you so much for making them. 🤗

@douglasgoodhartmusic 3 ай бұрын

I learned from Celin, who taught Pepe. Great video. Romero technique is the technique, for the guitar. The hand is not "tilted" toward the ring finger. It is the end result of gravity, on his hand. He is not holding, or tilting, but rather is relaxed , in a field of gravity...

@anneli1735 2 ай бұрын

32:00 “relaxed” is the keyword talking about his finger positions 3+4! That’s exactly how my fingers “work” as well, always struggling with what teachers tried to force me into. My fingers won’t work that way resulting in a constant crampy soreing position and that way always pressing too hard when cramping this hurting my fingertips like hell - finally giving up playing like I’m just incapable of using my left hand properly 🤷‍♀️ This video made me aware of what to be changed to giving it another try finding my own way. Thanks so much for your analysis of Pepe’s technique ❣️I’m a big fan of his music and his family’s since decades btw ❤

@davidprodigy5833 5 ай бұрын

Great stuff

@mx7079 5 ай бұрын

Amazing video. Thanks for posting this.

@elbelnini 5 ай бұрын

- his fingers & wrist movements look very much like Sabicas.

@CharlesAlexanderAllred 5 ай бұрын

I had the exact same thought. They do many similar things.

@DavidDayMusic 5 ай бұрын

Just got done with your Segovia video! Perfect timing

@CharlesAlexanderAllred 5 ай бұрын

How about that!

@PortlandGuitarDuo 5 ай бұрын

Thank you

@_conchobhar_ 5 ай бұрын

lol i have a lesson with him tomorrow, wild that you posted this in time.

@_conchobhar_ 5 ай бұрын

i also like the way you talked about his rest stroke. he has talked a lot about the amount of tip joint release you need and really timing that release well.

@CharlesAlexanderAllred 5 ай бұрын

Nice!

@Tom94Bugnon 5 ай бұрын

pleaaaase can you do baden powell !! Thanks for these videos it's great

@ruggerobelloni4743 4 ай бұрын

I found that resting the guitar on two points instead of the thigh and the chest lets the back and sides vibrate freely and improves volume and tone The traditional sound involves the whole instrument and I do think heavy back and sides (4mm,double the old standard) to let the top do all the work rob the guitar of the slightly melancholic tone which is part of its charm. I'd like to add a few details I learned from Fred Benedetti who studied with Pepe (btw. bless you for not calling him Peppy like many do in San Diego). Left hand: PR told Fred that his father started him by asking to fret a note, then release the pressure until it was muffled and renew it just enough to get a clear tone and repeat until he used only the least possible effort not to waste any energy. Luthier Yuris Zeltin who worked on all his Guitars told me Pepe's frets lasted Forever. Right hand:Fred showed me the I drag on slow passages like 2nd to 3rd string in Adelita for a sweeter, liquid tone and a move I never really mastered, plucking a string in a sweet spot and releasing it just a little to the right for a velvety sound. These "tricks" allowed me to fool other good teachers at Grossmont into thinking I was a real concert player until a mistake gave me away as an old lazy Blues guy. I only met Pepe and Angel at the Blue Guitar shop and we said hello, if I were a shrewd politician I'd make up a John Lovitz SNL story....yeah that's the ticket!

@anneli1735 2 ай бұрын

43:00 to me it looks like his 2. is a little more bend compared to 1. and 3. and that’s why they seem to be same length and yes that’s being ready and relaxed 😉

@selfTaughtGirl 5 ай бұрын

I've always wondered how he manages to get his tuner in amongst the rollers - I can't!

@CharlesAlexanderAllred 5 ай бұрын

Lol ya you usually don’t see that! I have to put mine on the end

@Chanpanpapi 5 ай бұрын

Please do Manuel Parrilla nephew, it’s hard to find info on him, he’s a hidden gem! If not try Diego del Morao!!!

@johnalbright9748 5 ай бұрын

Pepe has the best thumb in the buisness.

@anthonyvasquezmusicalis 2 ай бұрын

Sorry, I trained under Celin, there is not rule to not follow through beyond the next string, unless you mean the rest stroke. This is not a part of Romero method, period.

@mer1red 4 ай бұрын

With all respect for this great master, who is one of my main sources of inspiration, he is not a doctor. His body position can be more ergonomical. For instance, don't lift your left leg so high, ideally not at all. Second: his back is bent, you need to sit more upright. Etc. ... . He is not to blame: at the time he was a boy and learned everything from his father, medical knowledge was not so widely known. He was just following the tradition of that time. But times have changed, and so is our view concerning the use of our body in a healthy way.

@anneli1735 2 ай бұрын

Imagine he turned 80 this year always playing that way still. Can’t be that bad 😉

@mer1red 2 ай бұрын

@@anneli1735 Let's say that he has luck. We are talking about a risk with a high probability, not a certainty. It's like playing Russian roulette. Compare. Sometimes people say: "My dad smoked all is life, he never developed lung cancer. So smoking is not bad".

@douglasgoodhartmusic 3 ай бұрын

One more thing. Your admiration of Pepe's technique and performance skills is normal; we are all in admiration. But it's important to understand that this technique is available to everyone. I play with this technique, as does any Romero deciple. This is the technique I have disseminated for 30 years. Guitar technique has degraded, over the past 20 years, with the false concepts of "straight wrist". Romero technique is The technique.

@romaric9874 5 ай бұрын

His right hand is perfect. But the entire body is so bad…. Ok it work for him but you couldn’t teach that way. It’s too risky for the back. That’s the price to have a good presentation of the right hand. You can do without this body position, especialy with a guitar support. In the same order scott tenant or ze paolo becker have the same tendancie to hold the guitar.

@_conchobhar_ 5 ай бұрын

in my own lessons with him, he mostly holds it like scott tennant when he’s teaching. i’m not sure if tennant even uses that position anymore though. when he was putting the bottom bout of the guitar on his left leg it was because of an injury in his right hand.