the Blues Compas !!!

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minordjango

Posts: 918
Joined: Feb. 26 2005

the Blues Compas !!!

may i ask ..when your accompanying what methods helped you get your foot in the door i.e what you fall back , i think many of us are bed room guitarists, with many method books , and always need the assistance the forum is great !!!

meanimg we play through a score and think wow!!! , but getting back to basics, id love to really work on rhythm and i think many of us would, am i right in thing a few of us have played a bit of classical ??

i quote paco de lucia - Concerto de aranjuez , classical Guitarist dont get the rhythm , everything i play is so romantic --------hehe and damn out of time.......

help !! any back to basics with the metronome or flamenco master , im a beginner in rhythm.

cheers hope this can help many of us

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 6 2009 5:29:21

gato

Posts: 322
Joined: Jun. 9 2007

RE: the Blues Compas !!! (in reply to minordjango)

Don't sell yourself short django, compas is only a concept that explains a whole world of rhythm, and I think that people get so worried about it that it can hold them back, and that isn't what the concept is for. The concept of compas is supposed to free you to what is the flamenco rhythm which though may be different than any other kind of rhythm, is not impossible.

Listen to it, and feel it, and then feel it and play it. It's that simple, and there are so many resources that are here to explain it, I think that when we make something in to a kind of cult, it then becomes strange and somehow we become indifferent. Remember first of all flamenco is music, song, rhythm and dance. And, it is to be enjoyed and not feared. That is my take on it.....

Otherwise, why are so inspired by it that we want to play it? Why not just listen?
Gary

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 6 2009 15:16:22