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gerundino63
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 RE: Your repertoire? (in reply to flyeogh)
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Ofcourse I can only speak for myself, but I like to keep a repetoir at a “hobby performing” level.
So I play 11 palos, and a few rumba’s. So, that makes 15.
Farruca, Solea, Buleria, Taranta, Granainas, peternera, Alegrias de Cordoba, Tientos, Sevillanas, Seguiriyas, Alegrias.
After practicing I play 5 of them every day, so it takes not to much time to keep the repetoir on level.
On this wat I play every palo twice a week.
Remembering is easy this way.
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Date Mar. 9 2020 8:22:18
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Piwin
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RE: Your repertoire? (in reply to flyeogh)
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If you get the chance, maybe see if you can go to some of the dance classes your teacher accompanies. Because if you want variations on compas, that's a good way of doing it. It's also a good way of embodying those rhythms, so that it's no longer just intellectual knowledge that your brain might forget. I'd forget a lot of things when I was just learning set pieces. But what you learn in accompanying tends to stick. And if ever it started to be a regular thing, you'd no longer have to worry about what palos to explore since the dance class's schedule would make that decision for you. 
If you can't do that but you have a bit of money to spend, you could also ask your teacher to invite a dancer to some of your classes (you'd have to pay the dancer for the class too). Like, have one class just with your teacher where you'd prepare the basics, and then the following week have a dancer come in and work on applying what you learned in context.
Anyway, that's just me. I find it more pleasurable to approach it that way and it also gives me more confidence. When I was starting out and just learned set pieces or falsetas, if ever I forgot a bit I'd just be stuck: "what's the next bit already?". But once you've got the fundamentals down, which for me are just easier to learn through accompanying, you can weasle your way out of anything and keep on playing. With that you can end up having a fairly large range of palos at a comfortable level.
And I'd go with the "happy medium".  If you focus too much on one palo, honestly it's just a bottomless pit.
Note that my way requires socializing with new people, which may or may not be a good idea these days depending on how your approaching this whole coronavirus thing. Well, it's not exactly coronavirus, in your case it's the Andalusian strand: the cruzcampovirus 
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Date Mar. 9 2020 8:35:15
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mark indigo
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RE: Your repertoire? (in reply to flyeogh)
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As a hobbyist player (about 60-90 mins everyday) how many palos should I learn? I could immerse myself in one palo playing many compas variations, adornos, falsetas, styles, etc. Or should I progress through many (as many course books seem to encourage)? Or look at a group of similar palos? Or what would be a happy medium?
as a hobbyist player, just do what you want. if you like solea, play that. if you like bulerias, play that. it doesn't matter as long as you enjoy it.
i have played for dance classes for years so i have a lot of bits and pieces that i have learned and played for dance classes and choreographies. I can play a bit of just about every palo, even if it is only basic compas, or basic compas and a few fills and variations. If and when a palo gets asked for i can use the basic stuff i know and expand as i go along. The palos that are used more often I have more material for, so I have more stuff for solea, siguiriyas, bulerias, tangos, fandangos, alegrias, sevillanas etc. but a lot of that stuff is in various states of disrepair if i haven't used or revisited it lately. I also have complete "solos" that i have learned from recordings that i play, and a few solos i have made up.
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Date Mar. 13 2020 16:35:45
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