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RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to henrym3483)
damn everything i am doing sounds wrong to me
hey i wanna double check i listened to it so many times i am starting to doubt myself ..this is on the second fret right ..i think i remember reading something like that ? por medio
RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to henrym3483)
Hey i have no problem with the deadline on 30th. But i need to know exactly the time. Like 23:59 on 30th? And which time zone is it? I have a test on the 30th and would like to record it after that.
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From: South East England
RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to Florian)
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ORIGINAL: Florian
the deadline is now on the 7th
Hi guys, please send your entries to me at flamencoguitarcourse@yahoo.co.uk by 2200 UK time on 7th. I'll upload them straight away. It's 2207 now, so that's almost exactly 9 days!!
RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to Ailsa)
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Hi challengers, I now have four entries, but no idea what the code names are supposed to be! Did we ever reach a decision on that??
I think fish got the most votes. With Norman's exhaustive list of Spanish fish names we should be covered. I thought 'bacalao' referred more to a preparation than an actual fish? Anyway, I had it once..never again
Oh and I should be recording tonight on a friend's computer. can't wait to hear everybody's!
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From: South East England
RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to Florian)
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Hey what is the time there ?
It's 9 in the morning here in UK. So you have more than a day right now. What I'll do is I'll give you a 24 hour warning later on today, so you can work it out from there. For you Flo I guess the deadline will come early morning, so it's flamenco with matchsticks for you.
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From: New York City/San Francisco
RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to Escribano)
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It's mine today
Happy Birthday, Simon. Are you in Spain, and if so, any interesting local custom in celebrating birthdays which you may enjoy (or suffer) today?
And the same query to Florian and Australia.....?
I never understood the primitive tradition of blowing the years-numbered candles on the same cake which will later be served to guests…. I find it disagreeable that anyone blows eagerly –and repeatedly- on food, leave alone on “my food”.
In Italy there used to be a civilized tradition to bring flowers to your mother on your birthday. I still follow it, and am trying to initiate my girls to appreciating the value in it.
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From: England, living in Italy
RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to gj Michelob)
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Are you in Spain, and if so, any interesting local custom in celebrating birthdays which you may enjoy (or suffer) today?
I am in England, where it is cards, some toffee and beer for me Not much different in Spain. I got cake and kisses from the women in my village on my birthday. The fun derived from which, regrettably diminishes with their age
RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to henrym3483)
Happy Birthday guys!
Ailsa, you don't need to save a fish for me. I haven't had a chance to work on this challenge, so it's game over for me. I thought I could combine it with the the intermediate challenge, but that one is so freaking hard it is eating up all my guitar time. I guess the challenges were a bit too close, or perhaps the intermediate challenge material is a bit too advanced for me! I'm keeping all the challenge files though - they're great material. I plan on working on this later. It will be very interesting to listen to the submissions. I'm cheering for everyone!
RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to gj Michelob)
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Happy Birthday, Flo. When was the special day, yesterday?
thank you AMigo !!
it was on the 5th but it normaly goes for a whole weekend
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It's mine today
Happy birthday !!
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any interesting local custom in celebrating birthdays which you may enjoy
Yes get ridicoulosly drunk, blow a ridicoulos amount of money on shots and spend the following week calling people up and apologising. ..acttualy my birthday was on the monday...and i had to play and went out after every night of the weekend...by the time it got to my birthday i was recoverring and over it..
Man i was so so close to pulling out of this one too. .....but i didnt cause I pulled out of others before but if i didnt have the bad credit i would have bailed on you again ...i did like 100 takes...it took me all night ...and i still dont like it ..i have a saaying i like..." when things get hard, i get going"
anyway i had dvds which i been dying to see all night but couldnt cause i didnt like the audio ... i was gonna send it but i am gonna sleep on it and listen to it again and see if i have the energy to do one more take when i wake up...but atleast i am a litlle more relaxed now..i got something recorded..
brilliant idea i had to leaave it to the last day..."she'l be right mate "
RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to henrym3483)
Just sent mine I hope you all lose ahem I mean good luck everybody Seriously this was a great opportunity and and I look forward to hearing everybody's (hopefully bad) entries.
Ailsa let me know if it didn't come through for some reason... thanks
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From: New York City/San Francisco
RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to Florian)
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Yes get ridicoulosly drunk, blow a ridicoulos amount of money on shots and spend the following week calling people up and apologising.
Oh yeah..... that’s a birthday alright, in a universal fashion from the Pyramids to the Great Wall, form the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bridge-of-Sighs !!
'look forward to watching some of your videos Florian, anything you plan on posting, our dear white-suited-flamenco-star?
RE: The Cante accompaniment challeng... (in reply to Andy Culpepper)
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ORIGINAL: deteresa1
weird I have it listed in my "sent" folder...it's 10 MB is that too big?
The address is right. For some reason on my computer the ".uk" is not part of the link that you posted but I copied in the whole thing so it should be fine..
Don't use the link.... copy and paste the whole thing (including the ".uk") into the "TO:" field in your mail app.
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