7.Nail Care - Ben Woods Flamenco Guitar Techniques
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2017
- I use 5 Second Nail Glue and Powder: amzn.to/2k8GaDe
Complete Playlist: • Ben Woods Flamenco Gui...
0. Intro • Intro - Ben Woods Flam...
1.Picado • 1.Picado - Ben Woods F...
2.Tremolo • 2.Tremolo - Ben Woods ...
3.Arpeggio • 3.Arpeggio - Ben Woods...
4.Alzapua • 4.Alzapua - Ben Woods ...
5.Rasgueados • 5.Rasgueados - Ben Woo...
6.Strumming • 6.Rumba Strumming - Be...
7.Nail Care • 7.Nail Care - Ben Wood...
8.Restring Guitar • 8.Restring Guitar - Be...
The music being played is from Ben Woods' "Flametal Priest" album available on iTunes and most other places:
itunes.apple.com/us/album/fla...
These are the techniques Ben Woods uses in his arrangements and compositions within his scores, available at www.sellfy.com/benwoods
This lesson series is not meant to teach you how to become an authentic Flamenco guitarist, nor to teach the art, rules and rhythms of Flamenco. Instead just the Flamenco techniques and some alternatives Ben Woods uses in his music.
More about Ben Woods here www.benwoodsguitar.com 
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Amazing Judas Priest covers, Ben!! Thank you for making them. I listen to your covers all the time, they're stuck in my head.
Another superb video. Thank you, Maestro!
very great work, thanks a lot to share all these techniques with us
Thanks for the info! I had my nails done a couple times and I didn't care for how they dremeled my nails so deep, honestly made my nails a bit painful. Been playing with natural nails for a few years now, but I'm also a mechanic and I break nails often. Your method looks simple, I'm gonna give it a try. The nail ladies insisted that the deep dremeling was necessary even though I asked for otherwise, looks like you just rough them slightly and go for it.
Thank you so much for the Nail Care video.
Thank you for uploading this, super helpful!
Pretty sure this Judas Priest heading to to highway in the background. So good!!
So god damn good
Really appreciate this video Ben!
Background music is too loud I can't concentrate :)
Could you upload this again with quieter music? It's very difficult to hear you.
fck off m8 the background music is amazing
Such a usefull video.
Some more good waves from France.
Take care
Thanks so much for this method, Ben. I tried everything and this is the method I stuck with. I do sanitize with 91% ISO alcohol before glue. I think they key to this is a very light application of powder as you demonstrated. Too much powder and it gets brittle. Anyway thanks again, love your music!
this works great! when I was young I had fabulous strong nails that grew great & just didn't think about it.. I'm 53 & my nails are shitty & fingerpicking is lotsa my tactile enjoyment in playing.. I looked up "flamenco nail care" & knew Ben woods was the vid to pick outta the results.. I've had this on my nails a week & played everyday twice as much. things I noticed:. it's hard to sprinkle the acrylic powder with your left hand(did it!)& have Emery boards.. smooth any snags or ridges before you practice or play (if you don't wanna be interrupted to do it in the middle of a jam. oh& the shit is cheap on Amazon.. the very shit Ben uses here. I guess a downsize is it don't look great when your walking about the rest of the day (peeps might think you got some weird nail fungus) to me that's a tiny trade for the results!
This is great! I could have used this video year ago.
U r the best...Keep going bro...From india
LOVE THE JUDAS PRIEST COVER!!!!! AWESOME CHANNEL
Nice video!
you are everywhere, who a u to be verified?
Thank you for the video Ben. Do you have any suggestions for people that have fingernails that curve slightly inward to their palm? I have tried to file underneath the curve and make them flat then adding kevlar but then they end up not being long enough. Would really appreciate the help if there is anything you could suggest.
Rather helpful during the coronavirus isolation! (I'm ordinarily the freak that actually goes to the nail salon to get them done)
Gracias Amigo !
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Hi Ben, I used a long time UV-Gel. It is very stabil. If you want a very strong nail, you can add smal pinches off fiberglass. First put a primer on the nail. To avoid that your nails will get yellow or brown, mix some sunblocker under the UV-Gel. While playing guitar the nails will fluorescents (if they illuminate with UV-lihgt).
If that works for you, then great! Personally I'm keeping my nails much shorter these days and no glues, except for my index nail only (for my 'Alternail' technique). With the lockdown now, it's a perfect time to take all that shit off your nails and let them breath and health. They will get stronger and if you keep them short enough, shouldn't break.
I used to do this, but I hated the negative attention nail polish atracted. Also, it eventually weakened the nails so they became more fragile and often kept breaking. After some time I discovered, after they've recovered and got their strength and flexibility back, that I didn't necessarily need polishing or reinforcing them with cyanoacrylate glues, I left them like that. It was a learning curve though, it definitely helps to have body of the nail, it positively contributes and thickens the tone, without it, one has to try discover the way to play so it still sounds flamenco. With good technique they will not be breaking during playing, even despite an obvious fact, they are more susceptible to abrasion, especially with rasgueados. One compromise I have done is I no longer use hard tension strings, it helps quite a bit.
(but after a long time not having used polish or glue, I am tempted to try it again, using your recipe. Looks interesting ;) Thanks.
I find that my ideal nail length for arpeggios is much shorter than my ideal length for everything else, especially rasgueo, strumming, ect. Its seems my choice is between good tone or fast, smooth arps--but not both. So far, keeping a longer index and pinky nail and shorter middle and ring nails seems to be the best compromise. Have you found this to be an issue?--your arps are stupid fast. I'm not sure if I need to just put a lot more work into my arpeggios or if my fingers are just too long and curl under too much during arps to get speed with a longer nail length.
Does the glue work better than acrylic liquid? I have the liquid and powder and it eventually comes off, idk know if I'm doing it right or not. I might have to try the glue. Thanks for the info.
Honestly I just come back here for the background music holy fuck so good
Thank you so much man for the great videos 😊،، but please while you speak don't play music in the background، it is not only distracting، but also makes hearing you harder.
THANK YOU again man for the beautiful videos 😊😊😊😊
Hi Ben. I have started playing flamenco 6 months ago. My nails used to always break until I stopped all dairy and eggs a month ago. Now they never break. I would suggest that instead of using all this, the simple solution would be stopping dairy and eggs and u will c the results in a weeks time :)
R i p Primo ben wood 😢
Странная заточка интересно ))) но каждый по своему затачивает . Скажите пожалуйста что вы используете ? И где можно приобрести я сам живу в городе Ташкент в республике Узбекистан . Можно ли вам заказать один набор ?
Thank You Ben. I'm watching this and I'm trying to figure out what you're playing for background music, when BOOM! It's freakin' Judas Priest! So Awesome! BTW- Saw you on STORAGE WARS! :)
Ive been learning classical guitar, but my nails keep breaking, this was very useful thank you
Hello MR Woods .. I got a problem with my natural nails .. its always grow to down side .. and in this case it catches the strings and I don't know what to do about it !! hope you have an advice for me.. thanks again.
hamad1979 if what you mean is that they grow downward (curved), then you can shape them with a file. Perhaps straighten them out with the file, then reinforce them with glue.
@@collecter3456 I will do so ... thanks a lot, bro.
hamad1979 maybe if you still have problems with them curving down, you could make the nails pointy. That’s what I am currently trying to do.
can we use nail hardener instead of the glue and powder?
Sure use whatever works for your nails and playing needs. This is just what I personally do.
Do you take any nail strengthening vitamins such as B7?
TURBO "RUMBA" LOVER 😂
Where can find nail care thank you
"get your nails did" FFs Ben hhahah
My nails are about the same length. But I play more bossa nova so my nails don't look so abused. I'm still not use to my nails so I have tendency to stab myself.
Ben, thanks for the nail tutorial. I think like many who play nylon, I've really struggled with nails, and I wanted to see your take on this. What really got me was that electric buleria where you were playing a strat with nails!
People reinforce their nails in all sorts of different ways (tips/extensions, silk "wraps", UV gel, Rico nails/glue dots), but you're the first I've seen to do a pure glue and acrylic powder based nail.
What do you do if you break a nail and then don't have the length to apply the powder/glue mixture?
Wait til it grows out and play with very very short nails. But they never really break
You just sold me with this "never break" comment. . .gotta try this now. Ever just wear them down from doing picados on the bass strings?
Ben. Got a bad break in my thumbnail this week, so I used your glue and acrylic powder method to repair it. It is FREAKING AWESOME. Thank you sir! In fact, I was so happy with how the thumb turned out, I just put the same stuff down on A-M-I too.
Its only day 2, but so far I'm liking this way more than acrylic or gel extensions I've used before. Easier to do, dirt cheap, and basically just reinforces the existing nail. Golpes make a nice solid "thwack" and you can barely even see that the nails are reinforced. Tone is good, too.
For those who are curious about this, the glue mixes with the acrylic powder to solidify into a sort of hard plastic coating that seems to stick really well. .
For what its worth, I used ordinary (not 5 second) nail glue, cause that's what I had, but it seems to work just fine. Also, to repair the cracked nail, I put a silk wrap on top of the crack and then soaked that with glue, with acrylic and glue layers on top of that. That worked so well I used the same wrap as a base on the other fingers too. . .so I didn't have to scuff up the underlying nail to get the acrylic/glue to stick.
Hey Ben I was just wondering when doing a rumba rhythm how hard are you strumming? I can only get an even sound when hitting pretty hard. When doing it softer it sounds like crap
If your rumba strum sounds best when played loud, do it loud. Eventually you will be able to control it with finness. Just keep playing every single day!!!
@@BenjaminWoods thanks man you're the best. I hope all is well
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To keep my nails healthy I just use the glue for emergencies. If I see a crack forming or get a chip, then the glue comes out.
And yes, the background music is distracting 😁😁😁😁
Same here, I don't agree on using nail glue constantly, and worst yet, having it cover the majority of your nail. 😬 Makes your nails more fragile and unhealthy in the long run. But I definitely use it for emergencies, and few times of extreme need. But I guess to each his own...
I'm blessed naturally strong nails...!! Just a quality sandpaper file to get a good shape 👆
Which music is playing in the background... ???
2 songs by Judas Priest, arranged for Flamenco guitar on the FLAMETAL PRIEST album by Ben Woods.
Heading out to the Highway, and Beyond the Realms of Death. itunes.apple.com/us/album/flametal-priest/id999663500
Hi Ben, Do you conduct online classes?? I am very much interested to learn the way you play.... I follow and listen to your songs, I have learned so many techniques from your previous videos... If you have any arrangement for that, do let me know.. :)
Also, Turbo Lover at the very end 7:13ish
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I tried using glue once, and over time it took minute layers of nail off until the nail was paper thin. I realized theres no real for me way to attach a hard layer without damaging the nail underneath. All natural now
Since then, after they grew back, i rub lip balm into them a few times daily. Its tedious, but it seems to keep them a good balance of not being too dry to crack and split.
That's great advice if it works for you. Now that I dont accompany dancers often, I only put glue on my index nail. I think the real key is keeping the edges glassy smooth with files. I should update and revise this video.
do you do this for improved tone, control, or to deal with natural nails that are breaking/problematic? it took years (like 6) for my nails to recover from the acrylics I used to get. yeah, with the Vietnamese ladies. random guitar playing junkie scaring off the frumpy white ladies who just wanted a manicure.
You know I really dont do thins anymore except for my index nail. The whole reason I had to start doing this was for accompanying Flamenco dancers. You really have to dig in, and hit hard and aggressive to accompany Flamenco dancers!
@@BenjaminWoods I saw your name somewhere recently as a user of some extra-high tension strings and I thought "what the hell is he using those for?", but I didn't know you'd started accompanying dancers. does this mean we can expect to hear some of the other forms in the future?
@@mackhomie6 Well I started accompanying dancers about 20 years ago, I don't do it too much anymore. Neither do I use High Tension strings anymore, unless I have a guitar that works better with them.
@@BenjaminWoods well I know you've got better shit to do then answer twenty questions from me, but you'd probably know the answer better than anyone, given the nyloncaster and everything else. I bought a guitar from our mutual friend in Seattle and ive found that my right hand has a bit of a preference for a slightly wider string spacing. 47 or 48mm probably, where I've got 46 currently.
do you know if it's possible to change this? the fretboard itself seems like it would be wide enough and it looks--to a guy who knows zero--like it would just be a matter of drilling some more holes in the existing bridge (that has 12 holes already).
you got any idea whether that's the sort of thing ppl do at all?
edit: professionals, that is. probably E.D. in this case.
@@mackhomie6 Now let me get this straight; the string spacing at your bridge (of a Spanish guitar, right?) is 46mm? To me that seems impossible, because the nuts on Spanish Guitars are never thinner than 48mm, usually they are at 50 or 52. NO guitar is ever built with a wider nut spacing that the bridge spacing. So no, I really dont understand. However, from my experience the string spacing at the bridge is almost always 52mm if not wider. If you feel yours is too narrow, than I dont know. Try other guitars, see how they feel. If you already have a 12 hole bridge, I would NOT recommend drilling more holes, but an experienced luthier or repair man would know what to do. Good luck!
Sir I think in India there no such products, I am not sure
can we use super glue??? Does super glue has bad effects??
Nail glue *IS* super-glue. Its the same stuff, namely liquid cyanomethacrylate. The stuff hardens into a sort of acrylic plastic. It may. . .or may not. . .be a little cheaper if you buy it in bulk labeled as nail glue.
I just tried it and ordinary nail glue works fine mixed with acrylic nail powder. Depends on how fast/slow you move slower drying might be an advantage.
Too much background noise (music).
Then piss off m8
How about just using nail picks :D ?
now my nails wount break while practising😎😎✌✌✌
do nails will stop grow after putting it?
Of course they do not stop growing
tq
Yes. Your hair will fall out too.
OK, seriously, of course not, *BUT* with any of these nail reinforcing methods, because your nails do keep growing, you still have to do regular maintenance to keep the nails at the right length and keep them smooth.
If you don't file/smooth them at least every couple days (or more often), they may get too long and/or rough and you'll run into problems with the nails catching on strings and/or poor tone.
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why all that noise in the background?
For beginners, stay natural. Avoid any chemical compounds or powders. There are some maestros in Spain that deeply go against this and even some contemporary current artists like Amos Lora who advise not to use chemicals. Let your nails go through the motions. At best you should use a light coat of hardener before a show, if you are at that level already. Unless you are Canizares playing concerts and touring, don't even think about false nails. Use a multi nail care filer that includes buffer, shiner, etc. Take vitamin E capsules and combine their oil with olive oil in a glass tube with a dropper. Apply every night. Lightly buff after each play. When I started I made the big mistake of following some of these videos and absolutely destroyed my nails, taking months of recovery.
you need the strongest nails for paco de lucias bulerias or picados...
cant hear a word you are saying - but thanks for the linked products
5.17 HAHAHAHAH
like if you hate the sound of nail scratching
If you say the background music is too loud you are weak and I challenge you to a fight
What's the point of covering your nails with glue?
To re-enforce them. If you play Flamenco or similar fingerstyle for hours every day, and/or you accompany Flamenco dancers, you will need some extra strength.
Patrick Li Really ?? Lol-
I can’t use super glue I have super glue allergy. I’m quite sad. I am considering stopping playing as my nails are thinner than paper. Tried everything under the sun nothing works. Juan Martin student.
Never ever stop playing! You dont need nails. Really. Grisha has only like 1mm long nails, just enough to kiss the string, just barely. It takes getting used to but it works. You dont need long nails to play Flamenco, you dont need to put any glue on them even if they are paper thin. I dont do this method anymore, only on my index nail(for my alternail technique), all my other nails are 1mm long with no glue. Never give up!
What' s name this preparation ? What is called this preparation ? Has no name.🎸🎸🎸
Thanks for the tips but the background noise music needs to go......
Music too loud, can't hear u....But it's a fine video.
Nails did 😂😂😂
Judas Priest!
turn off volume - turn on subtitles
Can you still play piano?
if you treat your nails like this you'll get fungus and you may lose your nails permanently not to mention you'll ruin your nail's bed in the long run. those bubbles I can see from your previous applying makes an ideal place for fungus. be careful and don't teach a wrong way to others
I've been doing this for 25 years, no fungus, nail bed stronger than ever. Like I always say, I'm demonstrating WHAT I DO. You can choose to do whatever you want.
Taco Bell Nails
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i spected to find everybody having a very hard roflmao, but......
I dont know brother. That glue shit destroys a healthy nail. Your nails were not looking real healthy before you put that glue on. The only product ive ever found that doesnt eat into the nail is the Sally Hanson Nail Hardener. Just a thought? After years of playing you dont want to have no nails left.
I play for Flamenco dancers, very aggressively, and Flamenco on electric guitar. This is what I do for my nails, (my nails under the glue are just fine). You may do whatever you like.
Fair enough brother. Just thinking of your future playing. Our nails are so important we must take maximum care on them. Keep away from those steel string instruments or you DEFINITELY wont have any nails left. Cheers.
No, thats false. Its all about how they are filed and buffed and polished. Or else I wouldn't be able to do this: ruclips.net/video/H2X-woRBqxA/видео.html
The background music is too Loud and distracting
Excellent, superglue and cocaine!, Makes you wanna sniff ur nails
最近我的"軟指甲"獲得改善，建議可以吃中藥試試，找一個好的中醫師，一定可獲得好的調理。
Had to stop at :50 because the fucking music was too loud to hear what was being said.
بابا فارسی بگو
STOP THE MUSIC!!! Delete this video. And start over again in a quiet room.
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