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Billyboy
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Joined: Aug. 18 2003
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Solo compositional techniques?
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One of my biggest regrets guitar wise, was not enrolling on the Riquini course when I was in Cordoba. The course was billed as a solo compositional course, in which he divulged everything about his technique of composing, having learnt a few pieces of his, how he thought of doing some of his falsetas is still a mystery, they don’t seem to have evolved from any guitarist previously that I can think of, in the same way Tomotio has evolved from PDL’s falsetas for eg, and Paco evolved them from Nino Ricardo etc. I remember Juan Martin saying he uses two techniques, one is thinking of a melody, then finding it on the guitar, and two, just fiddling about on the guitar, and coming by a falseta idea by accident, I think also trying to fit a melody to the compass using a flamenco metronome, missing out notes so as to fit the rhythm, is a tool that the pros probably use, just wondered if anyone out there has inside knowledge of how they do it. Cheers
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Date Mar. 15 2004 11:22:25
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Merle
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Joined: Jul. 6 2003
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RE: Solo compositional techniques? (in reply to Billyboy)
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Well, by no means, am I a good guitar player...yet I'm still trying!! I always record what I play, and most times when I miss a falseta that I was SUPPOSED to play right, then it's wrong! Yet if it's still in compas, then that is YOUR falseta! NO ONE else could play it! (unless they wanted to sound like you)!!!!! To me, trying to learn flamenco, is not like learning classical...note for note..so I'm not much into whether I did a flaseta right or wrong...flamenco is dynamic!~ ;>) Also, don't be like me, and just soley concentrate on how you sound while recording!! Because, I GUARANTEE, it will sound terrible (well, mine does)... And the good thing about always recording, sometimes, once in a blue moon, whenever the lights go down, just play to your own satisfaction, then it's all good, and sometimes it sounds better than you thought? There is a right and wrong way to play flamenco, just don't let it get in the way of playing from your heart and soul. Mistakes and all... Merle P.S. Stay in compas...
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