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Ok. I show you the first two parts, the third i am too lazy lazy to try and figure out. I don't play it well, but that is mainly because i don;t use this alzapua style and also to take it fast i would have to play it many times so i do not think while i play. Anyway, apart from that i think it can be done into speed. in the end of the video i do the 3note alzapua at speed, but not changing the note.
What you have to do in order to play this, is to write it down, with 16ths, but the alzapua in 3s in order to picturise it. Then you have to take it to speed. But it is not so difficult. If i find the time i might try this and make a video tomorrow
If you can even verify slowly the little things of how the pull-off comes in on the first line and where the thumb DOWN strokes always land (which you can clearly hear) that would be enough!
And the puzzling bit at 0:05 to 0:06 at the end of the first line (of the SLOW version).. where the thumb is definitely going down on the C-B-C on the 5th string..but fits in the open D as well...(but the D doesn't sound like a thumb upstroke??)
So it's C(D)B(D)C But played very cleanly and well separated...(and without hitting any other strings on the upstroke if it IS a thumb upstroke on the D??)
So how does he do that?
The thing is...you can work out various ways of doing it, but there are definitely bits where you can hear the diff between a downstroke, an upstroke, a pull-off and a hammer-on and these don't line up no matter how I do it!
I dunno...
This one I had to give up on before I smashed the guitar.....
Speaking of good amateurs, I like this video...especially the alzapua.
....if anybody can do this EXACTLY the same
maan, these guys look compleeeetely wasted, to do this EXACTLY the same would you have to be on whatever they're on???
theguitarist also looks a lot like one of the guys doing the palmas on some of the encuentro vids, the riqueni one i think, maybe they were both on there
maybe he learn to play that way because when juergas comes if there is only a right hand guitar
Yay...you got the right answer. Its not because he's a Moron at all. Do you really believe for a moment that a flamenco musician in Seville doesnt know which way round the strings go? He must have a guitar strung "left handed" at home. As you say, left handed players are constantly being handed right handed guitars and they just get use to punching out compas on them. If that is what he can do on an upside down guitar then imagine what he will sound like on his own instrument!!
the guitarist is Javier Serrano and he does palmas on the Tomatito and Rafael Riqueni Encuentro vids
OH yeahhhhhhhhh! That's where I've seen him!
I had that same video as stratos of the alzapua, but I deleted it because I thought the one I came up with was closer. I won't dare have another try at it soon though because my pulgar skin did NOT appreciate the efforts.
the guitarist is Javier Serrano and he does palmas on the Tomatito and Rafael Riqueni Encuentro vids
Fine,.. I thought he looks similar. Good to have the answer black on white.
When I saw him in the encuentro video in past I thought " Where did they pick up that junkie?" He looks absent and broken in the video. Very strange appearance.
At about 03:15 it sounds like there's even ANOTHER guitar off camera!
(Also in places in the first Bulerias)
Maybe trying to get that Tangos alzapua sound with one guitar is an impossible task?
cheers,
Ron
at 3.15 seams like the sound setting of the camera has been changed, or the the guy who made the video, later made some changes in sound (eq, reverb, etc.). because also the palmas sounds brighter and everything is also louder and with a little reverb effect.
I found this on YouTube. The guitarist is left handed but he's playing a right hand strung guitar. Everyting is back to front, upside down etc...etc. Plays picado and chords the opposite way. How does his brain work?
Check this out. This is a classical guitarist playing left handed on a right hand strung guitar. He is playing the difficult Allegro movement from "La Catredal" by Barrios, a well known classical guitar piece.
Check this out. This is a classical guitarist playing left handed on a right hand strung guitar. He is playing the difficult Allegro movement from "La Catredal" by Barrios, a well known classical guitar piece.
A clear indication for having waaaaayy too much time.
By the way. I´m off for breakfast, sports, guitar, eat, drink, movie, sleep.
Oh ****! Today its Saturday! Yahoouuu 2 days off...Just forgot about that.
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