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Flamenco for kids by Ricardo
Years back my wife Sara, flamenco dancer, was into acting and one of her repeat gigs was playing "Maria" in this series for teaching kids Spanish.
During the pandemic they asked us to write a "flamenco song" for the series. So this is what we came up with. They overdubbed our original rough cut vocals (I don't think they liked my andalú accent ). It was available for sale in one of their DVD series for years, and I just noticed it was finally loaded to YouTube. Enjoy my compositional masterpiece
RE: Flamenco for kids by Ricardo (in reply to Ricardo)
This is the best thing I've witnessed in my quarter of a century in flamenco. I *especially* like that dissonant chord that you added when you say "sonido" - really creative, man! Kudos to you two!
RE: Flamenco for kids by Ricardo (in reply to Ricardo)
¡Olé Olé Olé!
Oh hell ya, that was priceless Ricardo!
You and your wife should do a whole children’s Flamenco/Spanish language series. I’m not kidding.
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RE: Flamenco for kids by Ricardo (in reply to devilhand)
A7 is the dominant of D major, so it pulls that direction. In Weber analysis it is not I7 we called it borrowed secondary dominant as “V7/IV” pronounced “the five-seven of four” and it does move to IV or D major.
RE: Flamenco for kids by Ricardo (in reply to Ricardo)
Yes. Indeed, it's A-A7-D. I almost forgot the descending fifth sequence. One of my fav songs has it in C maj key C-C7-F. When going from the verse to the chorus it's an useful technique.
Talking about tonic prolongations, I wonder whether it can be used for cante accompaniment.
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RE: Flamenco for kids by Ricardo (in reply to devilhand)
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Talking about tonic prolongations, I wonder whether it can be used for cante accompaniment.
Most of the cantes mineros use it on the first, third, and 5th lines of verse. In Taranta it is the D7 chord in place of what would be in normal fandangos a basic D major chord. Cantes levantinos also use it (malagueña family of songs...not all but most).
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