Hi!
I'm following the Calace method and I got stuck on the exercice no 82 in part 2. The picking direction is indicated on all notes on the first measure, and seems to imply that all the exercise is alternate with up picking the pulse notes (the opposite of what is usually done). Here is that first measure, where "g" means down pick and "s" up pick:
It starts with two down picks and then alternates the rest; there is no other picking indication on the rest of the exercice.
The problem I have is that there are two measures with string changes that I'm not able to play at this speed with this picking:
What confuses me is that until now, the method is very progressive, I found no big steps in difficulty from one exercice to another, but I'm nowhere near to play this. On the other hand, if I play it reversing the pick direction, I can play that part, but the rest of the exercice feels weird (maybe because I played it a lot the other way). And reversing the picking direction just for those measures seems like cheating.
And there is the problem that in the first measure, the "s" below the first note on the second group (b) is a bit blured and has a spot below that makes it look like a "g" if I look at it too much. If that's true, should I play down-down on every string change and alternate the rest?
Also, at the beginning of the exercice Calace says that it can be played full tremolo, with two strokes per note (if I understand it correctly), but if that's the case, why the picking notation on the first measure?
Any ideas? Should I just practice more?
Thanks!
PS: Here is the whole method:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Metodo_per_ma...e%2C_Raffaele)
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