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OK, this is terrible, but ever since Ricardo mentioned the "Woody Woodpecker" it's kind of been in the back of my mind. There's of course many variations, but I'd like if possible to see some different variations?
Basically some 12 count examples, which incorporates the quintessential Woody Woodpecker. :)
Yes, it's a slow day at work. BUT the good news, Tom at La Falseta just let me know my new guitar has arrived. No, I'm not saying what it is until after I've got it. I don't want any opinion's til I've had time to play it a bit.
Yeah, basically just variations from simple to complex. Material for practice. The more the better. C'mon guys share :)
I have been heeding the advice of this forum, and been practiicing basics. Which has been helping out a lot. I have adopted the difficult practice. of counting out loud (i.e. "twelve and one and two and three ..."), and tapping my foot precisely. It's a very challenging thing to do (for me), but it has helped immensely lately.
Last night I was practicing some of the Gerardo Nunez Sanlucar excercises I found, took a break and dug through some stacks of stuff for something else to try out. I stumbled on one of Henrik's old uploaded tabs, which a year ago I could not play, and magically I realized I could play it by sight alone at slow speed.
Henrik's video uploads (the bathrobe era), I must say have been tremendous source of inspiration for me. It was I think the first Flamenco stuff I saw, that inspired me with the thought, that it was within reach to be able to play. Now of course, Henrik just keeps getting better, but that's a good thing. Thanks Much Henrik!
I even broke out the steel string, and revisited some stuff as well. I have an Al Dimeola song I learned a long time ago "Vertigo Shadow", which while I know all the notes, had given me some difficulty. Anyway, I found this flamenco practice has helped me to play that kind of stuff as well.
Hey, some of your Bulerias uploads, are some of the best example of Bulerias in it's basic form, and played well. Plus you tabbed some of it, I wish you had tabbed more to be honest.
There's other stuff out there which is at about the same level, BUT a lot of it is like OLD sounding Flamenco. Which I practice, but it does not sound modern.
That's a bit the problem. Beginning level stuff, that's out there is all old style. Which is usefull, but the style you played is like simplified modern style, which is exactly the kind of stuff I like working on.
I listen to Diego Del Gastor for example, and it's cool, but I listen to Tomatito or Gerardo, etc. and I like the more modern style better.
ORIGINAL: n85ae That's a bit the problem. Beginning level stuff, that's out there is all old style. Which is usefull, but the style you played is like simplified modern style, which is exactly the kind of stuff I like working on.
I listen to Diego Del Gastor for example, and it's cool, but I listen to Tomatito or Gerardo, etc. and I like the more modern style better.
You will like the Graf Martinez books if you don't already have them. Beginner to intermediate level stuff, in a modern style. You can spot simplified versions of falsetas by Paco, Tomatito, Quique etc.
Hi, could someone post a link to the original "woody woodpecker" thread, I've seen it mentioned a few times and think it may be helpful to me.
I don't remember it being just ONE thread, we talked about it before many times. Basically in bulerias I was refering to this little standard arpegio played mainly with thumb, that you hear PDL and many others use quite often at the 10 11 12 spot in the compas.
I was "complaining" that it was anoying to me how often I hear it played, but it is just me. Someone pointed out to me that I teach it to many students and I realize that is another reason it has grown old on me. It was a bit of joking around about woody woodpecker because of his annoying laugh.
I am not saying folks should NOT play it of course, just vary it a bit when strumming compas between falsetas, and this is JUST A SUGGESTION. Once anyone learns a bunch of things, you can play whatever you want on the fly, improvising. And you are free to play this woody woodpecker every compas if you like. There are no rules.
I don't understand why it's so used to be honest. If you just take the following basic chord changes, I think the first sounds kind of nasal, whereas the second in my opinion sounds a lot better. Either one can be adapted to a nice little arpeggio which are virtually interchangeable.
(this I don't like) 3-po-0--0 2---------3 3---------0 2---------3 0---------1
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RE: Woody Woodpecker Request (in reply to Jon Boyes)
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I use it a lot and just realised I never conciously play a golpe - that would be on 12, yes, coinciding with the pull-off?
No. Golpe is next, like Romerito's "G". Reading left to right the golpe is on 1 (one), I just wrote "etc" after that. Actually what I really do (when I do this lick) is dig in harder on the 12 and catch the other notes in the chord with my index, then pull off.
It's a simple shorthand that I use, I find it easier to type. That's all. Either's fine for me.
I just found an interesting thing. I went to Amazon, and the books Jon mentioned are on there. The Vol 1 for example has a little link where, you can click to display a random page. Well, if you click that enough, you can see about half the books contents before they disable your session :) At least enought to get about 10 pages of tab from ... Not that I'm suggesting it. Just describing my experience.
Not sure if it would be as usefull for reading Tolstoy though ...
RE: Woody Woodpecker Request (in reply to Ricardo)
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ORIGINAL: Ricardo No. Golpe is next, like Romerito's "G". Reading left to right the golpe is on 1 (one), I just wrote "etc" after that. Actually what I really do (when I do this lick) is dig in harder on the 12 and catch the other notes in the chord with my index, then pull off.
plus theres a little apregio thing you can do in there on the B and G string----------
But the Wood Pecker doesn't do it
If you ever heard one of these birds pound a tree with its beak you would swear its at least 10 times faster than your fastest metronome setting ----but very accurate------
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