someone liked my comment and i wanted to watch it again and i realized i missed something last time.... after she says "its not about size but how u use it" she goes on to say "IN THE CASE OF FINGERNAILS, i think shorter is better" lmfao
I just wanted to let you know how helpful your "Ask Tatyana" video on nail care was fo me. Using the info from your video I have made a significant improvement in the sound my playing. To be able to get this kind of clear, useful and practical information from one of the best current classical guitar artists in the world is a wonderful thing. Thank you for taking the time and effort to share what you have learned with the rest of us amateurs and hobbyists. I will be following and watching all of them. Larry from Michigan, USA
thanks Tatyana for these great tips about the nails. I had never been given such important advice about it from any teacher I had. Keep up the great work, Brazil loves you!
A teacher I had in college taught me a great fingernail filing hack. He used saxophone reed trim paper. It comes in small sheets and is the perfect grain for shaping your nails. I highly recommend it.
Tatyana, I love your videos and your playing. Thank you for making these videos. I realized after 1 year of formal playing I still have not mastered nail care and sound production. So I am going back to basics and following your videos. This photo at 4:27 really helped me a lot with I finger. Thank you.
I found apoyando technique to be a good way of determining the right nail length. Ive had to determine everything from posture to guitar angle to variations in right hand positioning when switching from tirando to apoyando, and finally determined i need very short nails. Its a matrix of variables where one thing affects everything else. Pretty stressful lol
I'm currently trying out the Sally Hansen Strengthening Top Coat. Seems to be helping, cuz usually my nails break really easily. And yes, I do file just once a week usually, but during the week I sometimes smooth the edges with an emory pad. This is a great video. Thanks.
I enjoyed your nail information and some of your humor along with it :-) I play just as a hobby and I work as a photographer here in Southern California. In my business there is a lot of velcro used and that is a product that will damage my nails on my right hand. Many times I have to use super glue (CA glue) to fix my nails. Thanks for a great video with useful tips.
Very thanks for the information about nails, it's hard to find something as clear as you explain. I admire you, and I hope to meet you someday. Congratulations.
Great Video! She's an awesome guitarist. Coming from a metal background, I love this style as it's both provocative and intense. Happy I stumbled on this sweet gem and her videos. She's just ripping up these classical pieces. I Must....Practice More!
The tips about fingertip shapes, how they differ, and the implications for nail length are very helpful. I hadn't thought about it that way before. I use tea tree oil for many things -- maybe I'm addicted, too!
It´s a big honor for me your response my question! Thank you so much, very important for me know your opinion! Very glad to see this and all your videos, you are such good guitarrist than I´m your fan. Have a good day and once again, thank you. From Bogotá, Colombia, Andrés Felipe Santoyo. :) Cheers!
I appreciated your advice very much, and the humour too: in fact, size is not the question, but how you use it... In the case of nails, shorter is better! So true and funny, too.
I can see how you angle the lengths to line up with the angle of attack of your fingers as they are curved to each string. The longest point of the nail is offsite somewhat on each finger. I try to grow them, but keep snagging on stuff and end up cutting them off! God bless you and thank you for teaching and encouragement! I am playing hollow body with steel strings.
Hi Tatyana! First of all thank you for sharing your styles and ways to get a great sound! That's true it is so individual, it is nice to see that we have the same problems... and we share it with all guitar players, in all of the world! A big family... The guitar family! But in my case I have a particular problem with my neals. I also play the piano, I'm brazilian and I enjoy to play Choro on piano and guitar. When I play the piano I need to pay atention with my neals because it is easy to break when I play the piano! Some time I was in a festival and I broke my neal when I was playing the piano and after I'd play the guitar it was terrible. Now a days when I'll play in festivals I play the guitar first! Soon I post my videos...
Excellent information and thank you Tatiana. But what about the thumb? Everybody concentrates on how to file the nails of the fingers but no one talks about the thumb nail! Perhaps you could say something in a video, or reply to this my comment on the thumbnail. For instance do you file the thumbnail it so that when you play on the same string, (eg 1st string), it sounds the same as the the other three fingers, or do you prefer it to have a heavier sound? Do you prefer the inner part or the outer part of the thumbnail to be longer? Is there a filing technique you use? It's probably the most complex of the fingers because sometimes one needs a warm flesh sound, at other times a heavy metallic nail sound. It's also important that it must be able to strike strings evenly as it glides over all the strings, especially in some arpeggios, like in the Rodrigo pieces where one plays strings 6,5,4,3,2,1,2,3,4,5, up and down in continuous fashion. Then there is the rasquado and flamenco Alzapúa thumb rest stroke techniques. Please say something on the thumb. Thanks.
I used to break my nails soon after getting them where I like them and I used a combination of files finishing with a crystal file. I started putting collagen in my coffee every morning and my nails got really strong and it takes a lit more to break them.
Miss Tatiana, thank you for sharing some of your professional secrets with us. I have one question, maybe you will find a moment to answer it - how to avoid a tapping/scratching sound when the nail touches the string? I experiment a lot with the shape and length of my nails, but the nasty tapping sound remains. I am sure that due to the lack of time you can not answer all the questions asked you, maybe some of the audience here will give me some of their precious advice, be sure it will be greatly appreciated.Thank you much miss Tatiana! Vlad T
Спасибо за видео, Татьяна. =) У меня небольшие сложности с ногтем на пальце a. Звук несколько отличается от пальцев im. Угол защипывания может немного другой. Надо экспериментировать.
Ramayana I agree with on technique and also about the nails because shorter nails are the best as was discover by tarrega pujol and segovia. I enjoy your playing very much you are a great guitarist musician. All the from armando garcia hialeah florida usa
Thanks for doing such an informative video. I take s lot of time tending my nails which doesn't bode to well as I have quite a physical job. I often use superglue and tennis table balls to repair a broken nail. What do you do if you have a performance but you brake a nail that day. How do you repair your nails?
ohh, how lovely you are! this vídeo is very instructive cause I always had doubts about the size according to the type of nails. really wonderful explanation. thank you so much!!!😉😉😉. your vídeos are always greats suports and inspiration for me. Great talent And you're so pretty! !!
For five years, I agonized about right hand finger nails. I used formaldehyde to toughen them and pouncing paper to smooth them. This was a complete hobby with eight hours of practice in the evenings, but it was slight problem with my paying job, because my nails did not go unnoticed by my patients. It was solved when I switched for another five years to classical Scottish bagpipes, but I still love my classical guitar music. This video was superb.
hi! :D have you ever tried electric guitar? if yes then what do you thought about it? did you like it or nah? ^^ hope youll answer and good luck for next CD
Damn! Tatyana played in my country but there would have been no way I could have gone :-( 07.04.2014: Concert in Southbank Centre London, Purcell Room, London, United Kingdom
I've enjoyed most of your videos and I have picked up lots of useful tips for which I am very grateful. Could I ask you to devote a few minutes on how to tune the guitar properly. I don't mean just the first position which is relatively easy, I mean so that you can play all over the fretboard and get a good sound which is in tune. Thanks in advance. What combination of strings do you use to produce such a lovely tone and what guitar to you play. Is it a John Gilbert by any chance?
I have question whether you sometimes experience the problem when you find difficult to start playing. For example, I sometimes take my guitar and almost do not feel the strings, hand does not want to move like it moved when I played the last time. It's kind like I am struggling or the guitar plays against me sometimes. And I do not understand where the problem might be, the guitar has changed tension or it is the problem with hands?
For strong nails use Mavala professional ! Tatyana you are such a great player I really love to have a master class with you !! Do you come in France ?? Thank you for your music ! You are so talented !
Thank you for sharing how you shape your nails. Very helpful. If I may ask what is the grit number of the finest paper you use? Thanks again for sharing.
Татьяна, спасибо большое вам за советы. Я только учусь играть на гитаре. Раньше играл просто подушечками пальцев или редко медиатором. Сейчас преподаватель посоветовал отрастить "гитарный маникюр", но я кроме вашего видео, ничего не нашел толкового. Ещё раз спасибо. :) Отличный канал.
Thanks for the video! Probably a really stupid question: where do you get those "files"? Many people over the internet talk about them like it's obvious, but not for me, sorry :) Is it the same kind of thing that you can buy in "baumarkt" like Obi? Or is it something special? Currently I use one nail file which I borrowed from my wife, but it doesn't look like a paper, it's more like a stick... and I'm not 100% satisfied with it(the grade is a little bit bigger than I need). Should I go to Obi and buy this papers which people use for polishing some surfaces? If yes, which grade would you recommend? Sorry if my question was answered hundred times or if it looks silly.
My finger nails grow very different; mine are very strong but they grow like an "U" and very high compared to the tip of my finger; I'll try to copy your nails shape, I hope it works :v.
I know what you mean. At least for me it seems like a disproportionate amount of time goes into nail care. Consider a piano, even a 5 year old could play a perfect middle C, first time. On a guitar it could take someone years to learn how to play even one note with "perfect" quality. Reason : Nail and technique. This means that a part of our body must be considered as if it is a part of the instrument. Nails are as much a part of the instrument as for example the bridge or a fret. One doesn't play a "classical guitar" one plays "nails on a classical guitar". We don't play guitar we play nails. It sounds absurd but it's an analogy to get you prepared and in the right mindset for playing this instrument. Nails are a huge component of classical guitar. You need to really incorporate nail care into your daily routine and even protect your nails when you're not actually playing. Start learning to do tasks like unzipping a jacket with your left hand. Maintain them daily. But for me the biggest struggle is finding that perfect nail shape. Because it's not just nails, it's technique. So you might think you have a good shape only to find out your technique is wrong. Remember if you over correct your nails it can take weeks for them to grow back, and so you don't get an unlimited way to test. And it's hard to actually apply some kind of surefire scientific method to it. A lot of it comes down to trial and error.
