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I'm proposing/volunteering to organize a challenge. The forum could use a little constructive energy focus right now. Unless I'm seriously out voted I think farruca should be fun. It can be played libre or a compas has a pretty easy key to play around with and we've not done farruca before. Rules would be simaler to previous and skill level categories would depend on amount of entries. Whatcha guys think?? I was kinda thinking SXB too but I feel like a lot of beginners wouldn't join that....
I know a challenge is coming ... i can smell it ..like when its going to rain here....i thought it was going o be a Bulerias compass challenge...but maybe not ... farruca is good ... go for it .... its tricky work to sort out ...as you know ... I am a back seat , watcher now .. but moral support you have ...........
I think we should do a guitar making challenge Just kidding. I haven't participated in a challenge in a while but Farruca doesn't inspire me much. It would be cool to see another composition challenge some day.
Says the dude who's spending his entire summer in Jerez. Lol
Awesome Daniel!
Great Lorenzo, I'll organize it, this thread was to just kinda throw the idea out there to see how people respond. If we get enough people we can make it happen.
I was thinking to have pre-set volunteered judges who are not contestants too.....
thats just because i was in on organizing the last few challenges , including one that someone else started and i had to step and finish for them , not too happy about that , however .. and the last one i did entirely myself ... So i thought i could not be involved this time , hence take a back seat ,,
edit , got to admit i like doing spreadsheets though........
When you don't play for dancers it's very rubato. Same thing with singers... Like siguiriyas. I was nearly killed because I played to straight for a singer. It destroyed everything.
Farruca is a rhythmic palo, and in fact of all the rhythmic palos has the strongest and most marked compas. Sure, you can do whatever you want - it's a free country. You can play a Strauss waltz and call it Granadinas. Nobody can stop you. But that doesn't make it Granadinaas. So as I said, it's a free country. You can play Farruca libre if you want to. But if you do you're out of compas.
Alright well, it doesn't look like the challenge has got much traction. Thanks to everyone who showed some interest. I'm thinking maybe I've gotta come up with something more creative, maybe not a competition but a collaboration……..I dunno, I'll throw some ideas out, feel free to contribute your own ideas, I'll still be the legs behind it.
well the first bulerias compas idea wasn't too bad ... However for a challenge , maybe it could be a "write your own falseta "' challenge.... if all the falsetas were in the same key and palo it would make a complete tune maybe...
Or they would if they were all sevillanas ,,, then one could just pick and choose the best 4 to make a complete tune ... however not many people like Sevillanas that much except me ...
so maybe write your own .,,Solea por Bulerias ..(Fandango de Huelva? )falseta ... maybe ... dunno ...
but it might be a good time to encourage people to compose a bit more as it means a lot of listening to understand more the palo and what people are doing with it .. etc.........
Maybe it's a question of semantics. Some say that if you are not in compas all the way through, then you're out of compas, even though you may be in most of the time. He is in compas most of the time, but out of compas in some places, so some would consider that being "out of compas."
I never met someone saying Farruca is not flamenco. I had to accompany a maestro dancer from Jerez por Farruca several times. So would you say he don't know anything about flamenco Sean?
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but dont call it flamenco.
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