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Joined: Nov. 22 2005
From: Quepos / Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
A bit of an eye opener
So some friends came to visit me in this little beach town. He plays guitar, mainly rythm, Rumbas, some tangos. But anyways, he sings at a flamenco bar back home, and has quite the "flamenco voice", and a great ear for music. Last night we went to the beach, had a fire going, and I pulled out the guitar. I figured I could at least accompany a simple tangos. I have no problem at all with compas, but being the first time I ever tried to accompany, I was all over the place. He kept saying "listen for the changes", which I did, but I had a hard time figuring out when to change chords and what chord to change to. It was quite discouraging. Needless to say that I wil know pay ALOT more attention to chord progressions and the cante while listening to my CD's.
Has anyone else gone thru this? I got home last night quite bummend out, feeling that I don't have the "ear" for music. But this can also be learned, right?
when discovering flamenco i quickly switched from guitar listening to "Cante only" listening. In cante you get the melodies the chords AND all guitar flash you nead if its a good guitarist playing. Now when i put a guitarsolo record on i get bored very fast. theres something missing
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This is hard stuff! Don't give up... And don't make it a race. Enjoy the ray of sunshine that comes with every new step in knowledge.
I've hade that kind of experiences but you should be happy about it man, now you realize there's something you can work on to improve, no one is born playing like a god, and the ear can be trained, just don't get discouraged it's just a matter of practice, time and more experiences like the one you had.
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