Encuentro Series vs Others

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RTC

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From: DFW Area, Texas

Encuentro Series vs Others

I am almost finish with JM second (El arte Flamenco de la Guitarra) and Paco Pena book. Looking for other material and ran across the Encuentro Book and DVD Series, witch of the artist would be a good continiation to the above, or is there another series to consider?

Look forward to your post.

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John O.

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RE: Encuentro Series vs Others (in reply to RTC)

Encuentro is GREAT! I have them all. For beginners, for traditional falsetas and for learning the different palos Merengue de Cordoba is great. If you wanna get into bulerias Moraíto is a good one. Gerardo Nunez has a lot of great technique exersizes in his.

Some of the falsetas, like Tomatitos bulerias or Chicuelos alegrias, are quite complex compared to JM or Paco Pena. Studying them closely helped me learn a lot of new chords for flamenco and a lot about compás and syncopation, though. Still it's maybe better to have a good understanding of compás and intermediate technique before getting going on some of the more advanced stuff.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 14 2009 12:17:54

henrym3483

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RE: Encuentro Series vs Others (in reply to John O.)

The next one out apparently and unlike doit's vicente amigo fools gag and its going to be on good word

............

Miguel Angel Cortes and looks to be out early next year.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 14 2009 14:43:26

mark indigo

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RE: Encuentro Series vs Others (in reply to John O.)

quote:

Encuentro is GREAT! I have them all. For beginners, for traditional falsetas and for learning the different palos Merengue de Cordoba is great. If you wanna get into bulerias Moraíto is a good one. Gerardo Nunez has a lot of great technique exersizes in his.

Paco Serrano is also not too difficult, at least the first section is broken down etc.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 16 2009 1:59:46

John O.

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RE: Encuentro Series vs Others (in reply to henrym3483)

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The next one out apparently and unlike doit's vicente amigo fools gag and its going to be on good word

I actually heard they got Juan Martin for the next one

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 16 2009 3:57:12

henrym3483

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RE: Encuentro Series vs Others (in reply to John O.)

quote:

I actually heard they got Juan Martin for the next one

john martin who's he?

if i had a choice id prob like jesus de rosario or ramon jiminez to do one or paco cepero, that would be boss

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John O.

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RE: Encuentro Series vs Others (in reply to henrym3483)

Agreed!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 16 2009 5:11:02

Gummy

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RE: Encuentro Series vs Others (in reply to henrym3483)

Oh yeah a Cepero one would be super cool!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 16 2009 6:50:08

xirdneH_imiJ

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From: Budapest, now in Southampton

RE: Encuentro Series vs Others (in reply to Gummy)

i want Diego del Morao!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 16 2009 10:15:58

Stu

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RE: Encuentro Series vs Others (in reply to xirdneH_imiJ)

id like a santiago lara or jaun carlos romero....yeah that'd be sweet.

saw an jc romero gig recently.... wish Id sneaked a video him playing his alegrias!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 16 2009 10:42:54

Doitsujin

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RE: Encuentro Series vs Others (in reply to RTC)

Didn´t you read my encuentro thread in past? I had e-mail contact with them. And they told me, Im the first one who got the info about the new band. They wrote they got one whose well known and at the level of Gerardo. So,.. its for sure not Juan Martin.

I was in Madrid last weekend and visited the 3 conde hermanos shops. In Atocha there was hanging signed Juan Martin photo at the wall. So.......... respect Juan Martin. Or he is just used by conde for commercial. ^^ They are very good in talking to you when you test their guitars... I am not half as good as they told me I am.. haha ^^

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 16 2009 10:48:25

henrym3483

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RE: Encuentro Series vs Others (in reply to Doitsujin)

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Didn´t you read my encuentro thread in past? I had e-mail contact with them. And they told me, Im the first one who got the info about the new band

as i said it's miguel angel cortes, not fakemente fimigo.

im looking forward to it.i hope its some of the falsetas off his second album are on it.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 16 2009 12:02:42