Strum of the Bailecito

The Bailecito closely resembles the cat or chacarera, but has a particular strum, somewhat slower and less marked. Anyway, we can start from the basic scheme used for chacarera and adapt it guided by your ear. As already stated several times, a good guide are the recordings of traditional ensembles such as Los Fronterizos. Recall the chacarera schema:



Where P is the thumb and M the other fingers of his right hand. The arrows indicate that the strings are pressed from the 6th to the 1st, with the thumb the most serious (eg. 6th, 5th, 4th and 3rd), and with the other fingers the strings more acute (eg. 4th, 3rd, 2nd and 1st). With the yolk the thumb you must make a strum to quickly over the strings, to ring almost all at once, like a fast arpeggio. With the remaining fingers (the pinky is not used), you must make a strum with fingernails on 3 or 4 strings simultaneously, producing a snap sound , which contrasts with the soft sound of the strings pulsed with the yolk the thumb. Note that in the third and fourth times of the bar (which is 6/8) the strings are strums by the thumb, once down and following up (inverted arrow).

To make things easier I put an animation with sound with the movement of the hand so that you can imitate it. With what you already know, should not take long to learn to do so with some ease.

Animation with sound accompanying of the Bailecito