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I dont think anyone has yerma, I asked a few times but no avail. I started transcribing it but got frustrated and stopped, If i have another go I'll share it with you.
I've got a bit of it I've tabbed. But its tiring. cant work out if he's playing 3 or 4 stroke tremolo. Anyone now if its played with regular tuning or E tuned to D? Ricardo? any inside knowledge?
Low C. The rest the same. I can play "yerma". Anyone tabs it, I will look and correct anything I see wrong. The bulerias I can't play, but a friend in Switzerland has tabbed it as we learned it from Gerardo himself. I just can't remember it, just some parts, but he can actually play the whole thing! Also low C.
there's a GP5 file floating around with a little piece of siempre es tarde. Did you find this one already. In the beginning it's quite easy, but what dou you expect from gerardo, it's gets complicated as wel. (altough I never really studied the piece)
Sorry man can you explain that. E is tuned down to C??
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1=E 2=B 3=G 4=D 5=A 6=C
Key center moves around, but tonic is B phrygian on the first part of Yerma (like Rondeña has the lowest bass as the second scale degree). Tremolo moves from Bphrygian to E phrygian, to Gphrygian (Cminor) and resolves to C major. He repeats the beggining back to B phrygian. Second part is in C major, more or less. Bulerias is in Cminor, but bounces back and forth to E minor (B phrygian actually). He plays the second part of "Yerma" in compas for one falseta.
Gerardo taught us part of this last year. This is my rough tab. The chords are held a bit longer than I have written them but you can figure out from the recording how many times to play each chord. The main thing is the right hand fingering of each chord. The first chord is p + a together followed by p ,i, m then a, p, i, m. The second chord is p, i, m, i. The melody on the third line of tab is all played with the a finger. You have to think a, m, i, a, a, m, i, a, a, m, i...etc and really accent that a finger The last bit in the repeat is a, m, i, a, a, m, i, a, a, m, i, p, p, i, m, a, a, m, i etc
Er...cant upload the JPEG. I'll send it to you. I have transcription of siempre es tarde which i will send but it is in my horrible handwriting. Secondly it is insanely difficult to play and hard to sound good even if you learn it correctly.
Yeah, its a Nana. Yerma is a play by Federico Garcia Lorca about a baron woman who desperately wants a baby. Lorca actually wrote music for some of his plays. I cant remember exactly how Gerardo got involved with a Lorca production but I think it comes from a scene where the woman is singing a lullaby to her imaginary child.
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