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flamencofilia

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Joined: Jan. 3 2012

Material for Open Mic

I want to improve my playing and comfort with audiences and basically create an incentive for my own improvement. What palo and style would you recommend and do you have any recommendations, examples for cante solo tracks? Since I am fairly new, a sevillana would be preferable and more accessible for a random audience than a siguiriya. And, it's something I can learn in two weeks. I am hoping to be up to the challenge and comfortable enough to go up there, even if it doesn't matter how much I suck. But I want to play well, I don't want to suck and be deflated by my first public showing.

Are there sevillana or tango tracks with only cante out there? I feel like I could put together a respectable showing with my guitar against the cante tracks, one in each palo. Solea and bulerias are really not ready, especially trying to reproduce those palos with a cante track does not seem like the best idea. Thanks for the feedback!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 9 2012 5:18:47