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John O.
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Major major frustration
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Hey guys. Gotta vent here. I suck at flamenco. I mean, really. Ask me to play "Reflejo de Luna", "Con Garbo y Salero", "a really cool intro I heard once from Vicente", no problem. Sit me in a class and ask me to accompany, all you'll get is chord strumming. Lots of syncopation, mind you, yet still the most uninspirational crap you'll ever hear. Ask me to play a falsetta, "Duuuh, I dunno", more chords. A lot of it could be nervousness, somehow I just can't put the technique I have together with the dance accompanyment, though I've been accompanying quite intensly for about two years now. Should I just give up?????
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Date Jul. 5 2006 6:26:29
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John O.
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RE: Major major frustration (in reply to Doitsujin)
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You still owe me a tiento falsetta which sounds good at 60 beats per minute, that would be a great help, too... Thanks for the advice! Another thing I still don't get, the whole "learning by heart" thing being so horrible. If I have a choreography I'm playing to, eventually I'm just gonna know what happens when, right? Like in our polo when the dancers step forward it's time for escobilla, when they take a step back on 12, it's over. In our tiento the llamada leading to tango is three tacts. I know all that by heart, is that so bad? Maybe I'm missing something or making it more complicated than it is, I just don't get where you draw the line...
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Date Jul. 5 2006 8:56:13
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cneberg
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From: Sončno polje pri Večnosti
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RE: Major major frustration (in reply to John O.)
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Sorry, almost turned into a b*tchy baby there I'm usually pretty confident about what I do, I just had a bad day when I made this thread and wanted to reassure myself that I'm not that guy in denial behind who's back everybody says "Geez, why doesn't he give up?" Still Luka, if you take the time to write, some elaboration would be nice Yep, you almost did. I read the edited post Anyway, I try not to be hostile. I have bad experiences with forums. Actually I've been a member of a very few forums (maybe, two or three). But, as one guy here once said, I started to hate the person I've become on those boards. You know, ego is the biggest poison. I guess, because it's so complex and it's hard to get rid of it (almost imposible). But I think I ain't that bad character here (even if I only reply and don't upload my playing) I don't think I've said anything hostile on this board. I completely understand your frustration, but this is something you've got to deal by yourself (ego). That's why I said, what I said. Who else are the people who know better how hard is to play flamenco, if not us, who struggle everyday to play the simplest falseta in compas. About my playing.... I don't play flamenco, but I'm a huge fan of it and I respect those guys very much. I play in a small band, we play a bit of cuban music, some spanish rumbas,.... I play solo guitar, therefore I'm that villain, who mainly plays solos, picado scales, improvises mainly. Anyway, I have never ever in my life proclaimed myself as a flamenco guitarist, so my consious is clear. I will upload my playing in the future, but it probably won't be flamenco. At least not in the near future, because I'm extremly self-critical, when it comes to flamenco. Regards!
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Date Jul. 6 2006 14:32:04
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Doitsujin
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RE: Major major frustration (in reply to John O.)
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At first, very very sorry for this off Topic!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start OFF TOPIC: But I was forced to do it.. Its like you throw a wood..the dog cant resist..it HAS to bring it back. So I study this mess,.. I cant resist to find the origin of Deniz DNA-Sequence.... sorry..But Im helpless.... By the way the DNA alphabet has more than ATG and C It has a minimum of 15 letters maybe some more which I dont know at the moment. Ok Deniz you wanted it you get it..hehe ^^ I searched it with BLAST//-Genbank which is in the USA. But EMBL from England and DDBJ from Japan would give the same results. If you can tell me why they would give me exact the same results, I will pay for one packet of strings for you. (^_-) But the answere is not: Coz the sequence is the same. I found a full match in the cDNA clone of Oryza sativa. (=CDNA clone:J033028O18, full insert sequence Oryza sativa, 49 sequence(s)) Its nearely 100% shure that its from the genome of the Oryza sativa (japonica cultivar-group) The more common name is Japanese rice!! Hey where did you get this sequence?? Is that a joke with the japanese rice coz of my name?? WUHAHA ^^ Thats cool Deniz!! With 60% its from a chromosome maybe the 18th of Mus musculus. But I dont think so. But nothing is 100% shure in biology-science..so it could be wrong. But I think Im right..hmmm Here is a picture and some details of the rice: Here I show you the searchresult: GenBank LOCUS AK101172 1857 bp mRNA linear PLN 24-JUL-2003 DEFINITION Oryza sativa (japonica cultivar-group) cDNA clone:J033028O18, full insert sequence. ACCESSION AK101172 VERSION AK101172.1 GI:32986381 KEYWORDS FLI_CDNA; CAP trapper. SOURCE Oryza sativa (japonica cultivar-group) ORGANISM Oryza sativa (japonica cultivar-group) Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliophyta; Liliopsida; Poales; Poaceae; BEP clade; Ehrhartoideae; Oryzeae; Oryza. REFERENCE 1 AUTHORS The Rice Full-Length cDNA Consortium, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences Rice Full-Length cDNA Project Team:, Kikuchi,S., Satoh,K., Nagata,T., Kawagashira,N., Doi,K., Kishimoto,N., Yazaki,J., Ishikawa,M., Yamada,H., Ooka,H., Hotta,I., Kojima,K., Namiki,T., Ohneda,E., Yahagi,W., Suzuki,K., Li,C., Ohtsuki,K., Shishiki,T., Foundation of Advancement of International Science Genome Sequencing & Analysis Group:, Otomo,Y., Murakami,K., Iida,Y., Sugano,S., Fujimura,T., Suzuki,Y., Tsunoda,Y., Kurosaki,T., Kodama,T., Masuda,H., Kobayashi,M., Xie,Q., Lu,M., Narikawa,R., Sugiyama,A., Mizuno,K., Yokomizo,S., Niikura,J., Ikeda,R., Ishibiki,J., Kawamata,M., Yoshimura,A., Miura,J., Kusumegi,T., Oka,M., Ryu,R., Ueda,M., Matsubara,K., RIKEN:, Kawai,J., Carninci,P., Adachi,J., Aizawa,K., Arakawa,T., Fukuda,S., Hara,A., Hashidume,W., Hayatsu,N., Imotani,K., Ishii,Y., Itoh,M., Kagawa,I., Kondo,S., Konno,H., Miyazaki,A., Osato,N., Ota,Y., Saito,R., Sasaki,D., Sato,K., Shibata,K., Shinagawa,A., Shiraki,T., Yoshino,M. and Hayashizaki,Y. TITLE Collection, mapping, and annotation of over 28,000 cDNA clones from japonica rice JOURNAL Science 301 (5631), 376-379 (2003) PUBMED 12869764 REFERENCE 2 (bases 1 to 1857) AUTHORS Adachi,J., Aizawa,K., Akimura,T., Arakawa,T., Carninci,P., Doi,K., Fujimura,T., Fukuda,S., Hanagaki,T., Hara,A., Hashizume,W., Hayashida,K., Hayashizaki,Y., Hayatsu,N., Hiramoto,K., Hiraoka,T., Hori,F., Hotta,I., Iida,J., Iida,Y., Ikeda,R., Imamura,K., Imotani,K., Ishibiki,J., Ishii,Y., Ishikawa,M., Itoh,M., Kagawa,I., Kanagawa,S., Katoh,H., Kawagashira,N., Kawai,J., Kawamata,M., Kikuchi,S., Kishikawa-Hirozane,T., Kishimoto,N., Kobayashi,M., Kodama,T., Kojima,K., Kojima,Y., Kondo,S., Konno,H., Kouda,M., Koya,S., Kurihara,C., Kurosaki,T., Kusumegi,T., Li,C., Lu,M., Masuda,H., Matsubara,K., Matsuyama,T., Miura,J., Miyazaki,A., Mizuno,K., Murakami,K., Murata,M., Nagata,T., Nakamura,M., Namiki,T., Narikawa,R., Niikura,J., Nishi,K., Nomura,K., Numasaki,R., Ohneda,E., Ohno,M., Ohtsuki,K., Oka,M., Ooka,H., Osato,N., Ota,Y., Otomo,Y., Ryu,R., Saitoh,H., Sakai,C., Sakai,K., Sakazume,N., Sano,H., Sasaki,D., Sato,K., Satoh,K., Shibata,K., Shinagawa,A., Shiraki,T., Shishiki,T., Sogabe,Y., Sugano,S., Sugiyama,A., Suzuki,K., Suzuki,Y., Tagami,M., Tagami-Takeda,Y., Tagawa,A., Takahashi,F., Takaku-Akahira,S., Tanaka,T., Tomaru,A., Toya,T., Tsunoda,Y., Ueda,M., Waki,K., Xie,Q., Yahagi,W., Yamada,H., Yamamoto,M., Yasunishi,A., Yazaki,J., Yokomizo,S. and Yoshimura,A. TITLE Direct Submission JOURNAL Submitted (27-AUG-2002) Shoshi Kikuchi, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Department of Molecular Genetics, Head of Laboratory of Gene Expression; 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan (E-mail:skikuchi@nias.affrc.go.jp, Tel:81-29-838-7007, Fax:81-29-838-7007) COMMENT This clone is one of the 28K full-length cDNA clones from japonica rice. URL : http://cdna01.dna.affrc.go.jp/cDNA/ NIAS Rice Full-Length cDNA Project Team: Kikuchi,S., Satoh,K., Nagata,T., Kawagashira,N., Doi,K., Kishimoto,N., Yazaki,J., Ishikawa,M., Yamada,H., Ooka,H., Hotta,I., Kojima,K., Namiki,T., Ohneda,E., Yahagi,W., Suzuki,K., Li,C., Ohtsuki,K., Shishiki,T. and Yamamoto,M. FAIS Genome Sequencing & Analysis Group: Otomo,Y., Iida,Y., Fujimura,T., Ikeda,R., Ishibiki,J., Kawamata,M., Kobayashi,M., Kodama,T., Kurosaki,T., Kusumegi,T., Lu,M., Masuda,H., Miura,J., Mizuno,K., Narikawa,R., Niikura,J., Oka,M., Ryu,R., Sugano,S., Sugiyama,A., Suzuki,Y., Tsunoda,Y., Ueda,M., Xie,Q., Yokomizo,S., Yoshimura,A., Matsubara,K. and Murakami,K. Genome Exploration Research Group in Riken Genomic Sciences Center and Genome Science Laboratory in Riken: Adachi,J., Aizawa,K., Akimura,T., Arakawa,T., Carninci,P., Fukuda,S., Hanagaki,T., Hara,A., Hashizume,W., Hayashida,K., Hayatsu,N., Hiramoto,K., Hiraoka,T., Hori,F., Iida,J., Imamura,K., Imotani,K., Ishii,Y., Itoh,M., Kagawa,I., Kanagawa,S., Katoh,H., Kawai,J., Kishikawa-Hirozane,T., Kojima,Y., Kondo,S., Konno,H., Kouda,M., Koya,S., Kurihara,C., Matsuyama,T., Miyazaki,A., Murata,M., Nakamura,M., Nishi,K., Nomura,K., Numasaki,R., Ohno,M., Osato,N., Ota,Y., Saitoh,H., Sakai,C., Sakai,K., Sakazume,N., Sano,H., Sasaki,D., Sato,K., Shibata,K., Shinagawa,A., Shiraki,T., Sogabe,Y., Tagami,M., Tagami-Takeda,Y., Tagawa,A., Takahashi,F., Takaku-Akahira,S., Tanaka,T., Tomaru,A., Toya,T., Waki,K., Yasunishi,A. and Hayashizaki,Y. FEATURES Location/Qualifiers source 1..1857 /organism="Oryza sativa (japonica cultivar-group)" /mol_type="mRNA" /cultivar="Nipponbare" /db_xref="taxon:39947" /clone="J033028O18" ORIGIN 1 ggttagtta-->a gctttcccct cccaattaat taagtttagc tcttatcaga gcgagagaga 61 gagagagaga gggaagaaga agaagtggaa gtggtatgta tgtgcccatg tccattgccg 121 cagaaacaaa ctgtagcagc agcagcagca gctagtgaag tactacagta cagtagtgag 181 gacttaatca aacggggcgc gcggggtgcc ccctagctct cctcattcca ccaccatgcc 241 caccccgcca tcgccatgcc tcttcttcct cttcctcctc ttcttcatgt ggtcgtctca 301 ctctcacctt ggcgccgcct ccgacgcgga cgcgctgctc gccctcaagt ccgccctcga 361 ccgctccgac cgcctcccct ggcgccgcga caccgccccc gccttgtgct cctcctggct 421 cggcgtgcgc cagtgctccc aacctccccg ggacaggagg gtcaccaagc tcgtcctcga 481 gaacctcaac ctcaccggcg tcctcaccgc caccctcctc gccccgctct ccgagctgcg 541 cgtcctcagc ctcaagtcca acgccctcac cggccccatc cccgacgccc tccccgccgc 601 cctccctaac ctcaagctgc tctacctctc cgccaaccgc ctccagggcc gcatcccgcc 661 caccctcgcc ctcctccacc gcgccaccgt cctcgtcctc tcctccaacc tcctccatgg 721 cgctgagggc ctacttccag gccaaggagg agcgactcct cgtctacgat tactacccca 781 atggcagcct cttctccctc ctccacgggt ccagcagccg gacgtcgagc aaggggaagc 841 ccctgcactg gacgtcgtgc atgaagatcg cggaggatgt cgccgccggg ctggtgcacc 901 tgcaccagtc gccgccggct ggcatcgtgc acggcaacct caagccctcc aacgtcctcc 961 tcggccccga cttcgaatcg tgcctcaccg attacggtct ggtgcccacg ctgctcccct 1021 cccacgccga tctcgcctcc tccacgtccg tcctataccg agcgccggaa actcgcaccg 1081 cccatgcctt cacgccggcg tccgacgtgt acagcttcgg cgtgctcctc ctggagctgc 1141 tcaccgggaa ggcgccgttc caggacctga tggagatgca cagcgatgac atcccgagct 1201 gggtgcgggc agtgcgtgag gaagagacgg agtccggcgg ggagtccgcg tccgctggcg 1261 gcacggagga gaagctcggt gcgctgatca gcattgcggc ggcctgcgtg gtggcggacc 1321 cggcgaggcg gccaaccaca ccggaggtgc tacggatggt gagggaggca agggcggagg 1381 caatgtcgtc gtcgaacagc agcgaccggt caccagcgcg gtggtcagac gccgtgcagg 1441 tgcagatggg catgggggtg ccgcgagatc agggagagct aggaggactc acctgatcga 1501 tcgatcagca gctgatctca tcctgatcag cagctgatca tcgcctggct ggccggcttg 1561 ttgttacttt acttcatgta ccgtagcagc aaaaaaagtg tagttaccac tcaatttgtc 1621 ttggctcaaa gaatgactca ttcttcaggc aacacttttt aaataccagg ggtctttgat 1681 ttgggacttg tgtaggtttt tagcagggaa gggtggggca ttgggagata ctcctagctt 1741 agataggttc agagatgaag attctctggg ctggatctgt ctgtaaatct tttttggatt 1801 gttgtaaact tgtccttttt attttttccg gagtggagct aaactggttt atgtgtc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Above is the mached sequence. But listen, its not a 100% identical match. Coz of that there are some tiny mismatches like the end.. But to 1561 are the main matches. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here some screenshots from the results to proove it. (Only the link, not the pic, coz we talk about flamenco here..it would be too much I think) http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/2544/blast45tt.jpg http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/8468/blast21mw.jpg http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/5030/blast38cf.jpg By the way,..many scientists made a collection (Collection, mapping, and annotation of over 28,000 cDNA clones from japonica rice.) It was published in Science. 2004 Jan 9;303(5655):168; author reply 168. You can get it here Deniz. (^_-) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&query_hl=1&list_uids=12869764 Any more sequence questions?? 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Date Jul. 6 2006 17:29:51
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Ricardo
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RE: Major major frustration (in reply to Doitsujin)
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Pretty close. Actually, I think is part of a code for a monkey with 5 butts, but that is just at a glance. John, don't get down about it man. You don't have to be a dance accompanist to be a good flamenco. Moraito hates accompanying dance, he does not like the structure of it or having no room to improvise. Great flamenco master guitarists are sometimes called "solista" as if it is a bad thing to play good solos pieces or compose. There are those that focus only on cante accomp. It is good to be well versed in all that is flamenco, but those that specialize in dance accompaniment are really dedicated to that mainly. They are not necessarily good composers or even have that special senisativity for cante accompaniment. But that is OK too. Sometimes you come across someone great at it all. So don't force yourself to please EVERY dancer or whatever, it is not so important. It is hard to find what they need exactly, and what they don't really need. That is why it takes experience. Rarely do you find a dancer who says "can you play Reflejo de la Luna, I want to dance to that". But they actually are around. Understand they are not musicians, so comunicating with them can be difficult. Anyway, for tientos 60 bpm, think about arpeggios. Pick 4 chords you like, ending on A of course, and do 16th note arpegio, then sextuplets on each chord. A bit of swing on the 16ths gives the feel of tientos. Does not matter the arp. pattern, only the rhythm and phrasing matters. Check out Chicuelo's vid of solea for baile. Super slow arpeggios keeps things pretty and moving. Same idea applies to any super slow dance. I had to do Solea at like 40 bpm. It was like BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR,THREE............. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR,SIX etc. Painful. Ricardo
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Date Jul. 6 2006 19:24:14
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Ron.M
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RE: Major major frustration (in reply to John O.)
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Hey guys. Gotta vent here. I suck at flamenco. I mean, really. Ask me to play "Reflejo de Luna", "Con Garbo y Salero", "a really cool intro I heard once from Vicente", no problem. Sit me in a class and ask me to accompany, all you'll get is chord strumming. Lots of syncopation, mind you, yet still the most uninspirational crap you'll ever hear. Ask me to play a falsetta, "Duuuh, I dunno", more chords. A lot of it could be nervousness, somehow I just can't put the technique I have together with the dance accompanyment, though I've been accompanying quite intensly for about two years now. Should I just give up????? Wow! This thread has really got out of perspective! Should you give up? Well...the answer is simply no... What are you comparing yourself to? PdL, Tomatito, Vincente, Gerardo? These guys are at the top of the Flamenco tree.. They've lived the life, done the stuff, while we were all playing "Space Invaders" to try to detract from boring school lessons... (not me..before my time.. ) So you've discovered Flamenco at a later age than you would have liked to? Technique not so good as younger Spanish hot shots? If you want to be really sincere to yourself...there are probably dozens of minor Flamenco players in Spain who could play you under the table, technique-wise and knowledge-wise. You've just got to accept that!! You've got to ask yourself the question of... Do I really want to know more and more about Flamenco and do the best I can and be sincere to myself? Or.. Do I want to be a hotshot kid that everybody is impressed by and praises and everybody thinks is wonderful and you can walk off stage with your nose in the air after impressing everyone? Music is music..technique is technique... If you want to impress folk then get into Formula One Racing...and be great at it! Spray the Champagne into the crowd and enjoy your success... There are a lot easier ways of impressing folk other than playing Flamenco Guitar. But if you enjoy just the sound and slowly trying to improve...just for the hell of it... Then it's a lifelong companion! When playing ceases to be fun and a personal challenge then, personally.. I'd say...quit....it's doing you no good at all. There are dozens of things out there you could make a success at.... Unless you're addicted.. cheers Ron
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Date Jul. 6 2006 20:30:53
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Doitsujin
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RE: Major major frustration (in reply to John O.)
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Yes Ricardo, I never thought about that. No I have a new point of view with the acompanimento thing. Thanks! I allways took it tooo serious to play for dance. But maybe coz of that I have a great flexible grooving bulerias compas. More in the direction to Tomatito than Moraito, coz I dont like Moraitos stuff very much. quote:
Technique not so good as younger Spanish hot shots?.......there are probably dozens of minor Flamenco players in Spain who could play you under the table, technique-wise and knowledge-wise. In general Im with Rons opinion, but not complete with this one above. Im not against Ron but against the point in general. And I heared it often. I dont like it to say "spanish" hot shots. Hey I know german players who play dozens of the best spanish joug hotshots in spain under the table. Not all are so good. Yes there are most of the best, coz flamenco is mainly a spanish thing. But John doesnt have to fright the hotshots over there. He also can play many of them under the table. With the knowledge.. I think I dont have to know all the details of cante, dance and guitar to become a good player and maybe better than many who have this knowlege. There are over hundred different fandangos de huelvas..Who cares. The journal-writers and many people around the world, especially the spanish allways give the flamenco to much blablabla... Its not so complicated as they all say. As I told in past, if you are born in spain. Maybe just in a plane which flew above spain during the birth...and the people hear that you are from spain.. They all think that you know flamenco...pfffff.... Sorry, but I dont like always hear that flamenco is just a spanish thing. Its not. And if so many people would do flamenco here as there, there would be as many as advanced players in my country as in spain. But this music isnt popular enough here. As rugby or Sumo or tree widethrow or running over glowing ash. hhuuuh.. sorry I had to tell that.. A monkey with 4 asses??? HAahaha... I will test that!!
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