| Mauro Guliani's 120 studies for the right hand is a good place to start. Each study only uses a G and a C chord, so you can focus on your coordination and reading. Also Aaron Shear or Segovia's slur exercises will help get you started. Both the Shear and Guliani books are very thorough, they go from simple to complicated playing levels, i'm pretty sure Aaron Shear has some other good beginner reading books as well. I've always had to accommodate for two hand tapping, but i keep my nails just over the finger tip. From what i've been able to tell, it's a personal preference, if you do a lot of two hand tapping, you may want to keep them pretty short, otherwise you cannot tap with the fingertip, i use the fleshy part between the pad and the tip. Having slightly longer fingernails will give more volume when needed, though hand position also has a lot to do with that. Length of time is up to you, at least doing flash cards daily is recommended. There's no reason to make a toss up when there's no reason not to punch a clown |