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gerundino63
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Joined: Jul. 11 2003
From: The Netherlands
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beginners composing tips? anybody else?
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Hola a todo! The level of playing here gets higher an higher here! So, to scare no beginners off, perhaps the BIG players around here, can contribute something for the beginners here. I do not want to count me in on this group ( unfortunatelly ) But I have a useful trick for beginners, to start making your own falseta. For instance a solea. Counted in 12. mostly finished at 10, and than the tipical solea theme follows on 11 and 12. take the measurment 1 to 10 play a note at a time, in the solea key 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 then the little theme on 11 and 12 sounds nice? than add at every note one more. (I mean a different note.) 1e-2e-3e-4e-5e-6e-7e-8e-9e-10 than the theme again. sounds a bit better, and faster, so now we make a slow picado from it Add one more note. 1ene-2ene-3ene-4ene-5ene-6ene-7ene-8ene-9ene-10 You are starting here something! You want it faster, something like Paco? add one more! 1enen-2enen-3enen-4enen-5enen-6enen-7enen-8enen-9enen-10, theme again. You have really made a fast picado falseta now!! I upload a example in the upload TAB section for who is interested. Do not be scared to try! Good luck! Peter P.S. Anybody else a Tip?
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Date May 9 2005 10:38:58
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RE: beginners composing tips? anybod... (in reply to Doitsujin)
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It became much easyer for me to create something, when I learned many chord variations. his is exactly how some young flamenco guitarists described their method of composing to me. A great way to compose muzak. Sean
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Date May 9 2005 22:31:52
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RE: beginners composing tips? anybod... (in reply to abraham)
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Hola Miguel´s advice is absolutely spot-on, especially for foreign aficionados who cannot really tell how flamenco their compositions are: there is nothing more likely to stop you in your tracks than a cantaor who turns around and says "Yes, those are the tones of alegrías and you have compás, but what you are playing is not alegrías". The other night I was invited to a rehearsal of a group consisting of cantaor, tocaor, cajonista, palmera y violinista. They were working on a colombiana and the violin had the solo. The girl playing violin is Swiss, classically trained, and played a meaningless improvisation in rhythm. Afterwards she asked my opinion and I told her. She said she knew nothing about colombianas and did not know what to play. I told her to play cante based falsetas, which are much easier on violin than on the guitar. Then I borrowed the guitar and played some of the falsetas from the Paco Peña/Sanlúcar colombianas, which is entirely cante based. She became very excited, insisted on recording the falsetas and went off to study them. I suggested that she should learn them straight, then look for harmonies and musically related development and make periodic returns to the characteristic bass run of columbianas. A ver. This is basically the advice of Miguel and is very important, unless you are compositionally gifted and flamenco too. Suerte Sean
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Date May 10 2005 13:38:27
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