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Counting Sevillanas
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John O.
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Joined: Dec. 16 2005
From: Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany
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RE: Counting Sevillanas (in reply to cathulu)
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Like in Fandangos - whatever helps you to do it right. The more ways you know how the better. Tapping in 2's is okay as long as you can still accent the uneven beats correctly. The chord change probably makes you wanna do it. If you count in threes and tap in 2's it can be confusing though, right? 3 taps per bar is easier than alternating 1 and 2 taps per bar. It's definitely a 6 for a few reasons. In the basic compás you always have the chord change from 2 to 3 but not from 5 to 6, so the melodic pattern is a bar of 6. You can accentuate this rhythmically by doing the chord change on 2+ and leaving the 3 open, the 4,5,6 however is straight. This really gives the feeling of a 6 beat. If you start your intro two beats earlier, which a lot of guitarists do, you'll notice you hit the tonic for those two beats - you are actually giving two upbeats which are 5, 6. Once you start your intro if you leave out the 6 once it's a sign that you want to end your intro 6 beats later, when you leave out the 6 the second time your intro is over and often the palmeros will clap contra for those final 6. It's all theory though and doesn't matter if you know what you're doing. You can count in threes if it helps you. For the letra though I think it's easier to count out 5 bars of 6 than 10 bars of 3 - it's too many bars, you can lose count.
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