Welcome to one of the most active flamenco sites on the Internet. Guests can read most posts but if you want to participate click here to register.
This site is dedicated to the memory of Paco de Lucía, Ron Mitchell, Guy Williams, Linda Elvira, Philip John Lee, Craig Eros, Ben Woods, David Serva and Tom Blackshear who went ahead of us.
We receive 12,200 visitors a month from 200 countries and 1.7 million page impressions a year. To advertise on this site please contact us.
So it looks like I have to learn more Rumba songs in the next few weeks. My flamenco dancer said that we have couple shows coming up and I should learn some rumbas.
The only rumbas I know currently are Entre dos Aguas and Juan Serrano's.
What other Rumbas I should also learn that are appropriate for the audience? Looks like we're going to be playing at restaurant/lounge kinda thing
Río Ancho (from Almoraima) Caña de azúcar (from Siroco) La Lola (Paco Peña) El Inclusero by Paco & Ramón
If you don’t want to do the transcription yourself, there’s Herencia latina from Toques Flamencos, and the pieces from Graf-Martínez’s book, which aren’t really top-grade but the audience would probably be happy with them if it‘s the typical audience for this type of stuff.
If you’re prepared to spend the bucks for transcriptions, there’s Affedis as well of course.
Paul, thanks for the suggestions! Ill definetly look them up
Adam, I guess what I'm really looking at is one guitar solo piece. I guess what I'm going to do for the Entre dos Aguas is to have a pre-recorded track and burn it onto a CD (at least that's what I think what I'm going to do)
Rumba isn't really favorite palos, but I guess it's good to learn some pieces
I think Rumba king has the right idea. Popular rumbas like Volare and Bamboleo are easy to work out and are much more effective on stage with a dancer than trying to work out a choreography to a track from sirocco. "Caña de azucar" is horribly hard to perform live and actually will not get the audience reaction of something more mainstream....especially if you are playing a restaurant/lounge.
The problem is a lot of non Spanish aficionados will talk about it not really being flamenco etc. Actually flamencos often play popular cheesy rumbas in Spain. Its not like you are going for the union prize here. The trick here is to entertain your public and hopefully get asked back to play again. Rumbas for 2 guitars are a problem and as Adam says "entre dos aguas" sounds terrible without a backing track. The way to get round not having a backing track is to use a Boss loop pedal
http://www.amazon.com/BOSS-RC-2-Boss-Loop-Station/dp/B000MG5VBA Here you can record yourself playing some rounds of chords on stage, click the pedal and play solo over what you just played (its a modern day version of what les paul was doing years ago)
I thought about having a loop pedal while back. I may have to use it, but it might be complicated though (dont have pre-amp on my guitar) to hook it up.
In any case, I might have to "arrange" some rumbas of mine own
So I'm going to throw my hat in the ring next to Kenzo's. When a non-aficionao asks you to break out the guitar, a bit of bulería or alegría can be a crowd-pleaser but it's good to have some rumbas too, and I just don't think I have any which really work for solo guitar in a pinch. So I'd be up for any good recommendations too. I don't know about Kenzo and his dancer requirements but personally I don't mind how fancy it is, even something along the lines of the video posted in this thread is useful to have in the repertoire:
I sell the tabs of this rumba through my site, but several folks have picked it up from this video without tabs. I was showing it to my friend filming so he could learn it and we could later do a duo. It is not too hard and works well without back up guitar like most other rumbas. You can see other versions of people playing it under "cafe sole"
The studio version has a second guitar part, but it does a counter melody rather then just chord strumming. The transcription I sell has both guitar parts:
We offer high quality Rumba flamenca backing tracks,great for when you want a full band sound.
We can also arrange mixes without guitars, for when you are playing with another guitarist keeping the rythm and you would still like a full band sound.Visit out website and pop us an email if you require this kind of mix as it is not yet available for instant download.
Printable Version
).
New Messages
No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages
Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages
Locked w/o New Messages
Post New Thread