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Miguel de Maria
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Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ
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Anything wrong with foot-tapping?
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So I was playing a gig yesterday with my percussionist, and he pointed out that my foot-tapping was audible several times. I have been working a lot with a metronome lately, so maybe that's why it was stronger than usual. When I asked him about it, he said that the rhythm should be internalized, and a musician shouldn't depend on tapping their feet or using their body to keep the time. My reaction is that this is silly, since lots of great players tap their feet. I can understand that orchestra guys can't do it, or maybe session musicians, but the idea that a guitarist playing rhythmic music like flamenco, bossa, rumba, etc. shouldn't is foreign to me. And personally, I've felt that concentrating on keeping that foot steady helps check me from changing the rhythm to accommodate technical issues, which once in a while still happens for me! What do you guys think?
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