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rickm

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Joined: Jan. 23 2004

solea

I'm a member, but I seem to have a hard time in logging in. Norton Firewall perhaps?
Anyway, I am looking for the chord progression in solea por arriba and por medio. I seem to recall it as e, e7, f, f, e, f. But in Bronce Gitano it seems that Sabicas plays
e, c, f, c, f at least in the first line. I know that he is playing alone and can play what he wants but just trying to get it straight in my head was is correct, so if someone can provide the accurate progressions for both that would be cool. and nice too. tia

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Escribano

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RE: solea (in reply to rickm)

I trust you made that duplicate Guest post? I deleted it.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 13 2004 13:15:49

Jon Boyes

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RE: solea (in reply to rickm)

The basis of Solea in E is is the phrygian cadence: Aminor, G, F, E.

That's the backbone upon which everything else is built. If you don't understand modes, think simply of the chords found in the key of C major.

Now you can extend those basic triads and add sevenths too - so A minor, G7, F7, E7 would sound fine too (or wherever you want to add them).

..and you can use substitutions. So for example, C major is the relative major to Aminor, so plonk a C in there instead of the Aminor and you could have:

C, G7, F, E which is another popular solea progression.

And of course the Andalcians love to fill out their chords with open strings to get that dissonance, so try playing an F major barre chord, but with the top two strings open for example, instead of a standard F.

...Or play this 'open stringed F' (what's actually an Fmaj7th inversion) instead of the F, thats a popular one in Solea:

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1
2
3
0
x

..and put that into the sequence Fmaj7th, C, Fmaj7th, E for another possible (and very common) progression (with various added notes here and there on the upper strings.)

So as you can see, there are many permutations, but ultimately everything can be explained from the basic cadence.

Modern players use even more extended harmonies and even stray away from the actual mode using ideas from jazz, in which case anything goes as long as it sounds good!

Por medio the cadence is Dminor, C, Bb, A, and again all the principles of substitution apply, although playing por medio gives you different possibilities to por medio.

Jon

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 13 2004 14:21:54