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Miguel de Maria
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RE: "Which guitar do I play tod... (in reply to aeolus)
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It means that VL #2 is an arpeggio piece, not a picado piece. "Picado" in flamenco has a specific meaning of alternating rest stroke runs or scales. Arpeggios, in guitar parlance, are RH patterns while holding a chord. The VL #2 adds immense LH coordination issues to the RH patterns, they are "real" arpeggios in the sense of broken chords not tied to idiomatic (easy) shapes on the guitar. Fast scale runs have been generally played picado or rest stroke, alternating i and m. That has been changing in the CG world recently and they are often played free stroke now. Palmer, following Philip Hii (check out his Toccata and Fugue transcription on Youtube), also uses 3 finger scale runs, which adds the top speed while increasing coordination difficulties. The macho, fff, jaw-dropping scale runs of the flamencos are rest stroke.
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Date Apr. 21 2013 20:04:05
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Erik van Goch
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RE: "Which guitar do I play tod... (in reply to aeolus)
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ORIGINAL: aeolus A while back British store owners installed a high frequency sound device (18000cycles) to drive off the teens who were harassing (so they said) honest people. An 18 yo can hear up to 18.000 cycles while no one else much older can. They said it was like mosquitoes buzzing but only a teen could hear it.. I was part of a group of music students/teachers that participated in a university study investigating the negative effects of longterm headphone use by musicians. Since i had used headphones a couple of hours a day during the last 10 years i was one of the students selected for there measurements. Those tests involved getting a headphone on your head and telling them when you heared a sound (various volumes/Hz samples were fired). Being scientifically interested and schooled myself i questioned there method in front, arguing the possible negative effect to the ears of longterm use of headphones would be more then compensated by the fact that the test poole probably spend half a lifetime training /doing what they were asking me to do now...listening very intense and with full concentration to a (hard to detect) sound....my whole brain was specialized in performing tasks like this for years (in far less idealistic circumstances then being offered single notes) so what were they expecting, that i would do worse than the baker or the grocer ??? It turned out they had indeed completely underestimated that fact. They did test me nevertheless and concluded that at my midd/late 20ties i had no problem hearing 21.000 Hz. At precent day (just turned 50) i probably will fail to hear 14 kHz. I must add that i owned superb audio equipment (like the Beyerdynamic 990 studio headphone) and never played records extremely heard. According to my teacher of musical theory/history i had "golden ears". My ears tell me that excellent flamenco players like Paco de Lucia, Vicente Amigo, Paco Peña and a couple of others (regularly) play excellent compositions (like la Barrosa) and as performers achieved impeccable taste and nuance.....not the nuance of a classical guitar player who (over)fixates on sound (and treats the massive g string slightly different than the less massive b and e string) but a nuance in melody, harmony, arrangement, sound, dynamics, rhythm, interpretation, (self) expression and communication level with the instrument that (in general) is to subtle/specialized for most classical players to detect (in fact many flamenco players don't detect al these nuances as well and within the restrictions of my personal limitations i learned a lot from spending time with the masters and from studying their records in slow motion over and over again). The mosquito you mentioned funny enough has been replaced by a supposedly more effective deterrent.....classical music :-). Like usual claims like these have to be taken with a lot of salt (not claiming classical music is tasteless off course.....like i said, i have ears). Babies on the other hand seem to benefit from hearing classical music and believe it or not but "life performed classical guitar music" happens to be the first language i ever learned and i love it very very much (although some performers and compositions are total crap, just like in flamenco and in fact every other kind of music). http://www.metafilter.com/117455/Driving-teenagers-away-with-classical-music
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Date Apr. 21 2013 20:37:57
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Arash
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RE: "Which guitar do I play tod... (in reply to aeolus)
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Today i was practicing some flamenco with a friend of mine who is actually a classical guitarist. He studies with Wilfried H. at Classical Conservatory in Frankfurt. Wilfried played with Julian Bream, etc. and is considered one of the best classical guitarists and teachers in Germany. I didn't see him personally but my friend showed me a 30 years old video from him playing classical pieces and it was really amazing. Anyway, so my friend said there is actually only one other style which Wilfried totally respects and would love to learn more about, yep, flamenco. And the weird thing is that one of his comments to him was that he said: he thinks if you truely understand flamenco, you will even be a better classical guitarist. He is actually a very very strict and severe teacher and doesn't allow his students to play around with pieces for which they are not ready yet, they have to do exactly what is been discussed in the schedule, etc. otherwise he will not teach them anymore, period .... But flamenco, no problem :D Now he invited us to go to the conservatory and play flamenco there for his classical students. Don't know why, but while we were talking about these things, i had to think about this "nuance" thread.
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Date Apr. 21 2013 21:36:57
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britguy
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RE: "Which guitar do I play tod... (in reply to Arash)
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there is actually only one other style which Wilfried totally respects and would love to learn more about, yep, flamenco. Interesting you should cite this example. When I first moved to Montreal from England I was fortunate enough to meet (chat with,and also accompanied) the celebrated French-Canadian traditional fiddler, Jean Carignan. Incredibly fast and accurate rythmic techniques and renowned for his unique playing style, particularly his inventive bowing techniques. Jean told me that the leader of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra sometimes took his string section along to local folk clubs and perfomances where he was playing, just to observe his unique playing techniques, some of which were very different from accepted princples of classical violin playing. Apparently the 'leader' felt they all had something to learn from this little guy who could play so fast and accurate and still rattle his feet on the floor at the same time. He was an incredible musician. But so are many other traditional - relatively unschooled - musicians. Including flamenco guitarists. . .
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Date Apr. 21 2013 22:05:16
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rombsix
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RE: "Which guitar do I play tod... (in reply to aeolus)
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re Roma tutorial...wouldn't it be much simpler to write it out in staff notation? Yes, no, maybe, I don't know. Can you repeat the question? You're not the boss of me now, you're not the boss of me now, you're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big. You're not the boss of me now, you're not the boss of me now, you're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big. Life is unfair...
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Date Apr. 21 2013 23:02:39
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