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srshea
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RE: fandangos coplas and compas (in reply to henrym3483)
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Good questions, Henry, and all stuff that I’ve been really confused about and trying to work out myself lately. I was playing with a dancer and she kept looking over at me, confused. She looked at my foot tapping as I played and then stopped and showed me how she feels FdH compas, which was pretty much what you have there. So a twelve beat cycle would work out to this: 123,123,123,123 Now, in listening to FdH, I could make sense of and feel that rhythm, but when trying to PLAY or adjust my foot tapping to that feel, I could get it at all. I ended up just sticking with what I was doing in the first place, and she hasn’t noticed and/or complained about it. Earlier this week I posed the issue to my teacher, explaining the above approach to him, and he said no, straight away. He plays in sixes, starting on six, tapping the even beats. This is actually what I was doing in the first place (though I was calling the “6” a “1”), and it feels right sounds right. The chord changes during the coplas can be really tricky to me, in a way similar to the way sevillanas can be deceptively hard. Do you have the Solo Compas FdH disc? The first, slow one seems to be REALLY standard and might be a good reference for trying to figure out verse structure and such. The guitar-only track is really helpful for hearing the chord changes.
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Date Mar. 12 2009 8:08:35
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RE: fandangos coplas and compas (in reply to russelldinho)
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Hola Fandangos compás is really easy, contrary to what I thought when I was trying to work out Juan Martin´s explanation or when I tried to play for dance students in London who had no idea where to come in. However I have accompanied many cantaores without problems and the teacher is right. The compas is basically 12s but a singer can elongate the cante and insert 6s at will. If there is no singer, even simpler, since all will resolve in 12s. The best ways to accompany this are:. Probably the biggest problem comes at the transition from the Phrygian section to the verse (major section) but 12s still prevail: E, E, Am (1,2,3) space, rasgeo(Am) space,(4,5,6) G7, F, E (7,8,9) space, rasgeo (E) space, (10, 11, 12) If the cante is to follow, a Fdim arpegio on 10, 11 12 works well. Then index, index G7 (1,2,3), space, G7 (rasgeo)space, (4,5,6) index, index C (1,2,3), space C (rasgeo) etc, changing chords with the singer. There are as many verses as the singer wants to sing, and they may change key depending on the fandango. A singer might also cut his first line to a single word, which changes the compa, but this would be unusual in a dance class. Easier to play than to write down Suerte Sean
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Date Mar. 12 2009 10:58:13
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RE: fandangos coplas and compas (in reply to Ron.M)
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Oops! Tried to upload an mp3 of basic fandangos compas, but software says "not supported". Sean
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Date Mar. 13 2009 2:55:34
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srshea
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RE: fandangos coplas and compas (in reply to Ron.M)
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Alright, I guess I’m still a little hazy on some of this stuff, namely the numbering of the beats and the starting point. If you listen to either the “Compas & Guitar 120” or “140” here: Compas Thing this has a pretty clear example of what I think Ron’s talking about, that golpe (or in this case, cajon) on first beat, E chord second beat. It’s in twelves, starting on “1”, so I’m guessing that this is what Val is talking about, but with a different approach to numbering the beats? I just reviewed the tape of my last lesson, and this is what my teacher is doing: Counting in sixes, starting on six, he does: 6&1&2, etc. which works out as: Golpe on six, E upstroke on &, E downstroke on 1, E upstroke on &, Am downstroke on 2, etc. Sooooo….. as I type this out I’m becoming increasingly convinced that everyone’s talking about and playing the same thing, but with a toAYto/tomAHto approach to what “12” or “1” or “6” is…… Regarding foot tapping, in that 6&1&2 approach I’m still inclined to tap every other beat, on the even beats. Is anyone here doing something other than that? Sorry, Henry, for hogging up your thread with all my own questions, but I think we’re staying true to the spirit of the original topic, for the most part. I hope.
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Date Mar. 13 2009 7:57:12
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RE: fandangos coplas and compas (in reply to Ron.M)
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Hola Tried to uploadin the AV section: still says not valid. Crap sofdtware, I give up! Sean
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Date Mar. 13 2009 8:25:33
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