Gerardo's farruca

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Gerardo's farruca

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Adam

Posts: 1156
Joined: Dec. 6 2006
From: Hamilton, ON

Gerardo's farruca

Could've sworn there'd been a thread about this before but Google can't find it, so presumably it never happened.

Can someone tell me how Canícula from Gerardo's most recent CD is a farruca? Can't find a good YouTube video of it so I'll have to leave it to Gerardo experts who know the song for this one...

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Pimientito

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Joined: Jul. 30 2007
From: Marbella

RE: Gerardo's farruca (in reply to Adam)

Normally you hear Farruca with a chord change from E to Am and its in 4/4 time.
Gerardos Farruca is also in 4/4 time and rhythmically the same. What he has done is change the tonality (which he has pretty much done to every palo). The tuning is Rondeña and the first chord has a bass on D. This changes to a chord with a bass of G. The interval between these two sets of chord changes is the same so the structure is still harmonically a Farruca, although admitedly highly stylised.

Gerardo told us a story where he played his solea in Rondeña tuning at a concert and one of the audience got angry and shouted "what the hell was that" but he just laughed and said its going to take the public a while to understand that flamenco is changing and that we dont need to be playing the same palos in the same keys for the next 100 years.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 8 2011 18:59:56

Adam

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Joined: Dec. 6 2006
From: Hamilton, ON

RE: Gerardo's farruca (in reply to Adam)

Thanks Mark, that's helpful! I can hear it now that I think about it that way, but the feeling is still very different from farrucas I'm used to. Really interesting.

Is his soleá in rondeña tuning the one on Andando el Tiempo (right before the farruca)?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 10 2011 14:08:53