So Ill be teaching flamenco with this cute chick..

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Neotriz

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So Ill be teaching flamenco with thi...

and I don't want to overwhelm her with anything crazy. What should I teach her?

Note: She has no flamenco experience, but good on rhythm and has relativly good music background (she played trumpet in high school for 4 years)

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 6 2011 16:00:04

Chiste de Gales

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RE: So Ill be teaching flamenco with... (in reply to Neotriz)

Farruca is pretty good for beginners.
I typically use the one from the Juan Martin book for teaching.

Start with chords only, no falsetas. Decide which falseta will be easiest for her.
Teach her the falsetta and have her play chord material, falseta, chord material.

Gradually build it up piece by piece. My flamenco mentor (a dance teacher) takes this approach with her students.
Teach how to start, then how to end. After that, fill in the middle. That way the student can always play some sort of complete palo.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 6 2011 16:10:10

Rmn

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RE: So Ill be teaching flamenco with... (in reply to Chiste de Gales)

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farruca is pretty good for beginners.

yes you should invite her and teach her the farruca. Maybe she then ask you to dance the farruca. Well, we all know what will happen after that

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 6 2011 18:32:44

Chiste de Gales

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RE: So Ill be teaching flamenco with... (in reply to Neotriz)

Just remember to avoid bringing knives to the lesson

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 6 2011 20:44:47

gaash

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RE: So Ill be teaching flamenco with... (in reply to Neotriz)

Hard to answer the question without knowing her goals... your goals it seems we all know :)

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 7 2011 3:46:48

Adam

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From: Hamilton, ON

RE: So Ill be teaching flamenco with... (in reply to Neotriz)

Seriously, Kenzo, just light a bunch of candles and put on some Ottmar Liebert.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 7 2011 10:25:47

Rmn

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RE: So Ill be teaching flamenco with... (in reply to Neotriz)

to be serious, always start with the solea. this palo really takes care of everything for beginners; compas, phrygian mode, the flamenco feeling. besides that, solea sounds very cool quite easily. for example when you do just Am G F in compas, its like wow. and it has a lot of easy cool falsettas for beginners.
It's a bit hard to master the aire of this palo in the beginning thou, but just listen to a solea of for example enrique morente at the beginning of the lesson.

try the solea, guaranteed succes. sorry for my silly reply of yesterday. good luck

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 7 2011 17:47:49

Yojimbo

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From: Toronto, Canada

RE: So Ill be teaching flamenco with... (in reply to Rmn)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Rmn

to be serious, always start with the solea. this palo really takes care of everything for beginners; compas, phrygian mode, the flamenco feeling. besides that, solea sounds very cool quite easily. for example when you do just Am G F in compas, its like wow. and it has a lot of easy cool falsettas for beginners.
It's a bit hard to master the aire of this palo in the beginning thou, but just listen to a solea of for example enrique morente at the beginning of the lesson.

try the solea, guaranteed succes. sorry for my silly reply of yesterday. good luck

Actually, I quite liked your silly reply of yesterday.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 8 2011 0:09:11