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Everyone needs proper right hand exercises before playing. When does your playing start to sound clean enough? Do you think maestros like Paco or advanced players need less time than intermediate players?
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RE: After how many minutes (in reply to devilhand)
For paco he needed weed, then one Rondeña (minera or Taranta can work, free style), then a bulerías and he was good for the night. So two numbers.
For me I don't play my best until I have had two gin and tonics and played at least 4 rumbas or whatever to warm up. As proof of my limitations just the other day we had a funeral for a friend...word got around I had "composed a song" for our friend...it was in fact a rather sophisticated bulería which I plan to record some day, maybe sell the tabs for it on my website etc.
Well the family announced at the funeral this thing and then "gather around everyone Ricardo is gonna play the song he wrote"...oh jeeezus I was not prepared. To play that thing with arpegios etc I need at least 4 numbers and some gin. It was a DISASTER. I mean career ending level if I would let it get to me psychologically.
To play that thing with arpegios etc I need at least 4 numbers and some gin.
Maybe you should have played Bulerias in the style of Cepero with more pulgar-index and rasgueado sections, which is muy flamenco. I think p or pi is easier to smooth out when things get messy.
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For paco he needed weed, then one Rondeña (minera or Taranta can work, free style), then a bulerías and he was good for the night. So two numbers.
One has to include the amount of time he spend doing warm up exercises in his dressing room before a concert.
Anyone noticed that Paco does warm up exercises mostly for tremolo and picado before a concert? I've seen it on youtube several times. When you think tremolo is arpegio on one string, it's clear to me why. With a tremolo warm up, your arpegio is warmed up as well. But not the other way round.
RE: After how many minutes (in reply to devilhand)
My ex wife said I was at my best after two gin and tonics… but at some point she started calling me metronome man. I don’t think it was a compliment :/
About five years ago I decided to do an evening event at the cool little shop where I sold my guitars, didn’t seem that big a deal at the time. I was warming up in a loft and a budy of mine comes up, he plays in a couple local Alaskan bands and offers to smoke me out outside. He knows I’m totally locked up with **** in my boots… I can’t I tell him, I’m on a FAA drug testing program as an airplane mechanic.
I finely came down the stairs then did a quick Flamenco description of Palos and Compas and then did an impromptu palmas tutorial and had about 20 people clapping and laughing while I banged out some cords. I one oi you nt a split the group in two and had them clapping counterpoint. Most where local musicians so it was only mostly ugly ;)
Since then I’ve been trying to play around people whenever the opertinty arises, I’m still on a FAA rendom drug testing program so still going at it cold.
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