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estebanana
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 RE: Alternative Techniques... (in reply to rombsix)
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Ben and I lived in the same workshop/apartment building for three or four years, he lived down the hall and around the corner from my shop. It was when he was putting together his technique, I wanted to hate it, but couldn't because it sounds correct. I watched him develop different ideas, discard some, and also adopt regular flamenco technique and keep it or change it. Once he showed me this sweep picking technique he was using, but I don't think he found a use for it, for example. He was always practicing, I'm not sure how he paid the rent, probably a gigolo.
He taught himself abanico rageo by listening first and looking later. From listening to CD's and records he created a backwards abanico that begins with pinky. It goes PinkyRMI and then repeats in various ways. If you hear him play tangos for dancers it works and you'd never know unless you watched. Soon after he moved to the bay area he learned a performed the Habichuela siguiriya 'Amanacer' note for note, with his backwards abanico. Why argue after that?
His technique is personal, he's an autodidact, adopting his way might work, but mileage will vary.
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Date Jan. 21 2018 0:02:57
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Mark2
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Joined: Jul. 12 2004
From: San Francisco
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RE: Alternative Techniques... (in reply to rombsix)
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I think it's a very honest explanation of the challenge some pick players have with picado, especially relate able to those of us who started with flamenco after years of pick playing. It's also his solution for making it work in a professional situation. I have been there, in that sometimes I was required to execute a line at a speed that was beyond my ability. That really didn't happen to me as a pick player, but it was extremely frustrating when I ran up against my picado limit.
I can remember thinking, you have to be able to play this line, and if you can't, you are out of business. It led to a lot of stress, and lot of straining that probably made my picado technique even worse. Thinking back on my life as an electric guitar player, you were simply expected to play the part. That is the reality for musicians, especially when you are being paid to support someone, and really the standard for playing professionally. If you can't play the part, you are out of there.
Given that Ben is a pro guitarist, he's in that boat and had to figure out how to make it happen. I don't care for his solutions in that I'm not going to start practicing them, but I'm also not in a position at this point in my life where I'd lose work if I wasn't able to execute a run at a given speed. Otherwise, I'd be giving his picado work around a try. Kudos to him for figuring out how to cut the gig.
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