In other instances you'll have time to put the bow down on your lap or hang it from your stand somehow - again be careful so that you don't damage the bow or get rosin all over your clothes. Often you won't be able to put your bow down so be careful of how you hold it while doing the pizzicato. Like Steve says, be careful in pieces where you bow and only have a couple of beats of rest before you start pizzicato. Go back to earlier pieces you learned long ago and play them all pizzicato.Įxperiment with the place you pluck so you'll be aware of the tonal differences and amount of energy you'll need to pluck with to get a decent volume out of your instrument.Īnd there are different manners of playing pizzicato and different problems depending on the music which combines pizzicato and bowing. When you're first learning a new technique such as pizzicato stick to easier music (less rhythmically complex and more narrow in range) where you only need to concentrate on the technique you're learning. You can practice pizzicato on any music you want - just put the bow down and pluck the music. So a violinist might see a part of her music marked pizz where she should pluck and a part marked arco where she should use her bow again.As with most musical things, the more you practice the more you discover and (hopefully) the better you get. In practice arco is often used as a sort of antonym to pizz. In orchestras this is usually called pizzicato (abbreviated pizz) because that is the Italian word for "plucked". Plucking (one string) is what you are thinking of. On viols (the violin's family) strumming is technically possible, but incredibly rare. Likewise there are a variety of arco articulations: up stroke and down stroke, sul tasto or sul pontecillo, detache or legato, etc. A variety of articulations exist on guitar and strumming is a class of articulation. In other words it is inaccurate (or at least neither specific nor rigorous) to say that guitar is played only by strumming.
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Plucking can be further described: up strokes and down strokes, free strokes or rest strokes, finger strokes or picked strokes, etc. The opposite off Pizzicato is Arco which simply means to use the bow. It's usually notated by just writing 'pizz.' above the notes that you are to play that way. Specifically, strumming is a continuous stroke by finger or pick across several strings if only one string is articulated we categorise that a pluck instead. 2 Answers Sorted by: 14 This technique is called Pizzicato. While one may say generally that a guitar is played by strumming, strumming is only a category of articulation (like arco is a category of articulation). Like many musical terms however, the traditional Italian version is preferred by those-in-the-know. Here is a good introductory glossary of specific techniques:Īrco is the Italian word for bow, so the word for bowing is essentially "bowing", and when speaking in English-especially in informal situations-it would be acceptable to simply use the word bowing. There are several specific adjectives phrases to describe the exact manner of bowing, but the general word is arco.
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