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Ricardo
Posts: 14875
Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC
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RE: what ya think of my transcriptions (in reply to Guest)
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For example I am extremely interested in cante/dance accompaniment - but I can't just show up at a studio with zero knowledge, gotta have something under the belt. Actually yeah you can, but only if you are pretty solid with compas. From there you can find a dance teacher willing to "hum" what she wants you to play. Try different things until she/he says "well, yeah that is ok I guess". No way to learn properly without first making tons of mistakes and embarrising yourself. As long as you dont keep making the same mistake of course! Make sure you learn from dancers with good compas. When a show or gig comes along, you learn what to do for the singer based on the structure of the dance you have practiced. Cante comes in little bits in the context of a big choreography so you can learn a lot about everything from a good dance teacher. I was fortunate to have a few GREAT dancers in the area who liked and understood cante and had connections in spain to hire some maestro cantaors and cantaoras that I got to work with. Brief encounters, like ROMERITO mentioned, make a BIG and fast difference. It was easier to learn figuring it out on my own, then few times I was "back up" guitarist with the more knowleadgeable player. Because, like I said, YOU need to make the mistakes in order to really learn. So I went to Spain also and Gerardo Nunez is very good at letting the students get exposure to cante and the overall "vibe" of real flamenco. He did not twist anyones arm and say "now you will accompany", but as a student it was clear how he was making those options available to anyone interested in trying. So yeah just go in and try...but make sure you are SOLID with compas, because you dont' want to mess up the class if they are just doing techiniques and stuff. Getting solid just means practice with metronme and record yourself. Once you are confident, learning the details is pretty easy. Ricardo
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