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When did you start accompanying??
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Florian
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Joined: Jul. 14 2003
From: Adelaide/Australia
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 RE: When did you start accompanying?? (in reply to Stu)
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if u havent done it before it always feels too soon
and it could never ever be too late
i started accompaning about 3 months after i started learning guitar, was kind of pushed into it by my teacher who said the dancers teacher said to go into classes.
that really was too soon 
but it happened and i did, i guess i jumped in the deep end and there was nothing i could do about it.
dont think to much about it, it will never feel right , and nothing can prepare u for it, ul have that learning experience to go trough.
having good compas, rythm and no ego is the only thing u need to get started
( and i didnt even have those when i started so..)
no matter how good u are if u dontr know it , you wont know it, u have to learn it
to prepare..
listen to solo compas, listen out for llamadas, make sure u know and understand the counts of the palo u are accompaning, practice your compas
chances are you gonna start on a beginner dancers class, and they dont know, the only person that knows will be your dance teacher ... and she understands, so theres nothing to worry about.
ps. accompanyng dancers and accompaning singers are 2 different things, here u get very very litlle time with the singers for reherals mibe once before the show, u practice and learn using recordings, if u lucky u might get 2 tryes at any one palo.
because theres only 2 of them here in my city and theres not that much competition for them, they kind of get away with anything ( they got the run of this town) ... they dont like to reherse too much
good luck
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Date Sep. 12 2007 16:15:59
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xirdneH_imiJ
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Joined: Dec. 2 2006
From: Budapest, now in Southampton
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RE: When did you start accompanying?? (in reply to John O.)
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same here, i started in my second year, now, entering the third and second season accompanying...it seems so easy but it can be so difficult at first, trying to follow the dancers that are either out of compás, or variating the rhythm in an unfamiliar way...i don't dare to play long falsetas as sometimes they have trouble following them, plus i can get confused too...so sticking to chords only and maybe very small variations and they seem happy about it...in fact it really gets boring playing the same thing over and over for months, my group is not a performing one in principle, but we had to show ourselves once or twice...
i really would love to play for a singer, but as you can guess, there are an exact number of zero of them in my country...too bad...
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Date Sep. 14 2007 14:56:04
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). These happen 3 times a year, and nearly always there's 1001 dancers and 1 guitarist, so we need more guitarists to come and strut their stuff. Or whatever the guitarist equivalent is. 