The practice of plucking the first open string This practice is much
paramount because during the process, player's concentration has been
under a great attention of listening to the sound.
This has affected to the ability of controlling the ways the right
fingers work without worrying of the left fingers.
Three elements are needed to be paid attention for the practice of
plucking the open string as follows.
Tone Quality
The produced sound must be such qualitative as nice, soft and each
finger should bring similar tones of sound. In fact, either soft or hard
sound when they get fixed to those songs, they will be reckoned as good
quality. However, this lesson is focussed on striking the open string,
not playing the songs so its sound must be constantly clear without
shrill or hard sound.
This should be practiced until it comes from feeling which control is
unnecessary any longer.
Intensity
The each produced sound must be clear.
Connection of Sound
The equal distance of sound is the must either fast songs or slows
songs.
These three rules must be all applied to plucking strings. When it
becomes just as your natural habit, then, only feeling of song or the
so-called song emotion is required.
In turn, the fullest of the song's feeling is still partially successful
which the three rules above are the lacks of it.
Striking the open strings is the first basic which needs to be achieved
before playing mutually with the left fingers because the difficulty
will begin when the right fingers and the left fingers go together. The
unskilled right fingers causes confusion so focusing on the both
cooperative two hands is necessary for a good control.
Plucking the first open string: the P finger must be placed on the fifth
string while the left side touching on the sixth string for protecting
vibration of the fifth string and the sixth string.

This vibration comes from the MI sound of the first string affecting
to the two notes of 5 which it 's the lower sound of the MI sound (the
LA sound or A sound).
That's to say the fifth string is the LA sound. Therefore, if the first
string is stroked without placing the P finger on the fifth string,
then, it will cause vibration because the fifth string and the sixth
string provoke the wave of sound.
By this way, despite pressing the first string for stopping its
vibration, the sound of the fifth string and the sixth string have still
worked which cause the overlapped sound between the new plucked sound
and this old sound.
The initial practice needs to be paid particular attention to it as the
strict rules. This must be done in a relaxed manner only.
The exercises for the practice of plucking the open strings (the
rest stroke style - the first string)
1. Im .....
2. mi .....
3. am .....
4. ma .....
5. ia .....
6. ai .....
7. ima .....
8. ami .....
9. iam .....
10. aim .....
11. mia .....
12. mai .....
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