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Miguel de Maria
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Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ
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fandangos and bulerias
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I have been listening, counting, singing along with fandangos for the past few days... a weird thing has happened. It has started to sound like bulerias!!! Last night, on the way back from a gig, I was listening to Melchor de Marchena (who I hate, actually!!) He plays this solo bulerias for guitar, very fast, and I was counting along in "twos". 12 2 4, 6 8 10. Three taps followed by three taps. The third tap of the second group stronger (the "10). I started to think, it is absolute bunk to think of this as a twelve count system. It is a horrible way to think about bulerias 12 3 6 8 10. That is only one "configuration" that you might find, one "lick." The "12 3" sound, sounds to me like a syncopation of 12 2 4. At least it makes a lot more sense that way to me. Getting mixed up in all the minutae just makes it harder. Play it fast, listen to fast bulerias and just taps in twos. Everything sounds different fast, everything makes more sense. Slow bulerias is unnatural--like listening to a conversation in slow motion. Yooooooooooo Aaaaaaiiiidriiiiiiaaaaannnnn! It doesn't work! Anyways, at fast speeds, the bulerias 12 2 4, 6 18 10, sounds a lot like Fandangos! 12 2 4, 6 8 10, 1 2 3 1 2 3. It sounds like the same thing. And sometimes Fandangos sounds like a fast solea. They will even use the accent pattern 12 3 6 8 10 12....
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Date Mar. 18 2005 15:48:55
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Ricardo
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From: Washington DC
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RE: fandangos and bulerias (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
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Yep, that is the compound meter, the SOUND of it, creating that effect. But it doesn't feel exactly the same. You don't want the 12,2,4 etc FEEL in your fandango, even though it sounds like that sometimes. Now to mess w/ your head, listen to Manolo Sanlucar's Banderillas from Tauromagia. The cante parte "Cuando se Asoma..." to the end of that part. What happens there? Notice 12,2,4, doesn't work out. HA! That one is unique though. Ricardo
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Date Mar. 20 2005 23:04:22
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