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James Ashley Mayer
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 RE: Original rumba (in reply to devilhand)
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I don't like rumba. But I always appreciate original ideas and own compositions. Why did you end up composing it in DADGAD tuning? Talking about DADGAD I used to like this tune of Pierre Bensusan. Sounds still good after all these years.
Before I even knew what flamenco was, I was experimenting with a steel-string acoustic guitar, trying to get a "middle eastern" sound. I was trying to imitate sounds that I would hear on various soundtracks or world music compilations. The sound was an oud, though I didn't know what that was, at the time. I eventually landed on DADGAD and thought it was my own tuning until the internet came along and I found out that I stumbled on something that has been frequently recorded.
Why did I choose it? Tune your guitar to DADGAD and tap on the face of the guitar. That sympathetic resonance just doesn't happen in standard tuning. In this rumba piece, I'm using a heavy golpe like a kick drum and I wanted it to ring like an oud's drone string. Also, in the first passage of my clip, the last note I hit before starting into the the rumba rhythm resonates like crazy in DADGAD. You may not be able to hear it well on my recording, but it sounds like a built-in oud reverb.
I've mostly made DADGAD my primary tuning. Guitars just come alive with it. It's not as consistently flexible as standard tuning but when it works it sounds very right. You can adapt it to more keys than it's typically used for if you commit to it for a while. I now think of standard tuning as an easy way to hit all the needed notes from one position at the sacrifice of great acoustic sound. Sure, we can make standard tuning sound amazing with the notes we play on it, but at the sacrifice of the guitar itself sounding merely good, not great. The only reason I play in "standard" guitar tuning is because of the repertoire that exists for it. If I want to play a PDL falseta, it's going to be easier in standard than trying to adapt it to DADGAD. But if I want to compose something, it's almost always DADGAD.
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Date Dec. 9 2020 16:32:24
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RE: Original rumba (in reply to James Ashley Mayer)
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ORIGINAL: James Ashley Mayer
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I don't like rumba. But I always appreciate original ideas and own compositions. Why did you end up composing it in DADGAD tuning? Talking about DADGAD I used to like this tune of Pierre Bensusan. Sounds still good after all these years.
Before I even knew what flamenco was, I was experimenting with a steel-string acoustic guitar, trying to get a "middle eastern" sound. I was trying to imitate sounds that I would hear on various soundtracks or world music compilations. The sound was an oud, though I didn't know what that was, at the time. I eventually landed on DADGAD and thought it was my own tuning until the internet came along and I found out that I stumbled on something that has been frequently recorded.
Why did I choose it? Tune your guitar to DADGAD and tap on the face of the guitar. That sympathetic resonance just doesn't happen in standard tuning. In this rumba piece, I'm using a heavy golpe like a kick drum and I wanted it to ring like an oud's drone string. Also, in the first passage of my clip, the last note I hit before starting into the the rumba rhythm resonates like crazy in DADGAD. You may not be able to hear it well on my recording, but it sounds like a built-in oud reverb.
I've mostly made DADGAD my primary tuning. Guitars just come alive with it. It's not as consistently flexible as standard tuning but when it works it sounds very right. You can adapt it to more keys than it's typically used for if you commit to it for a while. I now think of standard tuning as an easy way to hit all the needed notes from one position at the sacrifice of great acoustic sound. Sure, we can make standard tuning sound amazing with the notes we play on it, but at the sacrifice of the guitar itself sounding merely good, not great. The only reason I play in "standard" guitar tuning is because of the repertoire that exists for it. If I want to play a PDL falseta, it's going to be easier in standard than trying to adapt it to DADGAD. But if I want to compose something, it's almost always DADGAD.
Ok I'm sold. Gonna commit to DADGAD for a while and see what happens to my "jams". :)
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Date Dec. 9 2020 19:56:30
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