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Por medio, Por arriba, Por dios !!!
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sorin popovici
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Joined: Jan. 7 2005
From: Iasi, Romania
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RE: Por medio, Por arriba, Por dios !!! (in reply to fevictor)
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I dont know what this means also.Somebody please help us non spanish speakers. All I know is that arriba means backwards and abajo in front .Still sometime I dont get it ,for example Nunez says in the encuentro video just before his solea por bulerias that u got to tune "la sexta ,la quinta y la quatra medio tono abajo"....now at that point I think oh so E#,A#,D#, then says he just the oposite "sera Mi bemol , La bemol y Re bemol".Excuse me for the bad spanish ...but as I said i dont know spanish,I understand some cause it's close to romanian...but the writing it's not that close. Also sometime apparently medio means smth else, like "solea por medio". I dont exactly what's that ...but i think por medio means that u'll play from A phrygian.Now , I hope someone will clarify ...in how many ways can u use these words "medio" "arriba" "abajo".
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Date Dec. 12 2005 23:54:58
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El Becko
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Joined: Nov. 23 2005
From: Paris
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RE: Por medio, Por arriba, Por dios !!! (in reply to duende)
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Maybe I should have introduced myself first... So, here we go. I am El Becko from France. I have played electric guitar for several years, mainly blues, rock and funck... Then I made a big mistake : I basically stopped playing for some other years (you know, when you start to work...). About a year ago I spent some vacations in Andaloucia and guess what... when I got back to France, I bought a flamenco guitar and took some lessons. I felt like I had to re-learn every thing: left hand, right hand, rythms/compas and so on. But it's worth doing it : I take so much pleasure playing the few falsettas I know now. By the way, thank you all for the information you share on this forum. These are very valuable inputs.
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Date Dec. 13 2005 9:57:23
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Pimientito
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From: Marbella
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RE: Por medio, Por arriba, Por dios !!! (in reply to JasonM)
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ORIGINAL: JasonM Yeah, its quite simple.....por arriba is E (whatever mode) and por medio is A. This confused me for ages too. It comes from musicians who don't know music theory. When you play E you are fretting the bottom strings of the guitar but because those strings are nearer you head than your feet when the guitar is in your hands, the chord is por arriba (up) A is in the middle of the fretboard and D is on the bottom (which are really the top strings) por abajo (por'bajo). It is always confusing to explain to students that the top strings are on the bottom and the bottom strings are at the top. The capo traditionally allows guitarists to change key to the voice of the singer without having to transpose all the falsettas in different keys...F#, G, G# etc. which keyboard players have to do for example. Thats why you sometimes get solea with capo on 8th fret. Nowadays good players can play in several keys but even today, most just know 2 and slide the capo around. JohnOs example is good. A solea por arriba, capo 5 sounds different to solea por buleria, por medio, no capo
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Date Dec. 2 2007 23:24:42
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