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cathulu
Posts: 950
Joined: Dec. 15 2006
From: Vancouver, Canukistan
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What pieces or toques are you workin...
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I am curious what people are working on. We had a thread about what people have in their repetoire that was interesting, but what are you working on? For me, I am stuck somewhere between beginner and intermediate but that doesn't deter me - I will prevail! I refuse to give up but I do acknowledge to myself my limitations and I will just be an enthusiastic amateur... but I know I am all too over the map to learn a piece well. I just get stuck on something or a technique and then it is time to move on... and come back to it later. So I never learn anything as a complete piece, I figure that will take time. So I'll start, in no particular order I am working on in various stages: Guajiras de Lucia - over my head but I can play sections, the high bar chords kill me, I don't play at a good tempo, and I sound not too good Rumbas - Rumba Nostalgica (good for Alzapua practice), parts of Inspiration, and I noodle with Pharaon Sevillanas - Amaj, Dmaj in particular, gotta get those dialed then on to Flo's stuff - good for focusing on rasgueo practice Solea - various falsetas including some of Paco's badly Bulerias - various old time falsetas and strums - I keep repeating the same ones over and over again, need to work on some more... Tangos - dabble a bit with Romperseserones (sp?) - some nice falsetas in there (thank you Moraito!) that I gotta work on but where to find the time? I spend too much here wahhh... Air on G string - still hard but I can see myself putting that together with a concentrated effort over a couple of weeks, except my memory is bad and I always forget where to go next - how to overcome I do not know. a few Christmas songs (keep working on every once in a while to improve and get better sound, but that has dropped-off till next year) And finally, jammin sometimes with Cortez the Killer cranked! Yahhhh! How about you???
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Date Jan. 12 2009 18:36:54
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srshea
Posts: 833
Joined: Oct. 29 2006
From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest
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RE: What pieces or toques are you wo... (in reply to cathulu)
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Since I found I dance class to work with a couple of months ago, almost all of my practicing and playing has been geared towards preparing for that- just very basic compas, llamadas and such. It’s looking likely that we’re going to be playing at a community arts event in about three months, so now’s there’s going to be a handful of things that I’m going to have to work on and get tight in preparation for that. I don’t feel at all ready for it, but there’s nothing like some external pressure to get you motivated to get some work done. Tientos- the teacher just gave me a recording of a tientos that she has a bit of choreography for. As recorded it’s a bit beyond my reach, but I definitely have some similar, simpler material to swap out, while keeping the whole piece close to what she’s used to working with. I feel pretty good about this one. Sevillanas- I always thought sevillanas was pretty easy, just playing it by rote, straight from tabs, but it’s been a surprisingly difficult struggle to learn to strum a simple, danceable sevillanas that actually ends when the dancers expect it to! Keeping the proper compas with the accents and the chord changes in the right spots has been tricky, but I finally made sense of it earlier this week. Now I need really solidify that understanding, and be able to play it properly, consistently. Bulerias- After a lot of shaky, on/off work on bulerias since last spring, I’ve finally got some basic compas stuff down. It’s still slow and rough around the edges, but I feel like I do have my foot in the door, know my away around the compas without just playing the same thing exactly the same each time, and know what I need to keep working on. I finally felt comfortable and confident enough to take a stab at learning a first falseta a week or two ago, and that was pretty satisfying and felt like a breakthrough moment. Alegrias- basic stuff, simple falsetas. Farruca- This is the one I feel most confident in, and I have enough different strumming patterns and falsetas to keep things interesting. Solea por Bulerias- The teacher wants to do one of these, but I have zero experience playing it, wouldn’t even know where to start. I was upfront about it and told her that that’s the one thing I just might not be able to pull off, and she seemed fine with that. But I do want to at least try to figure out some basic compas and try to put something together. Neil Young and Crazy Horse- Big, big fan, and Zuma is one of my favorites, but for whatever reason, I’ve never really taken to Cortez. I even think it’s a great song, but I just don’t get a lot of enjoyment from it, personally. Barstool Blues, on the other hand, is a straight-up mammajamma! Oh, and a Fandangos de Huelva, too, which is pretty fun to play, though I need to come up with something a bit more interesting than the same, boring chords I keep strumming over and over....
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Date Jan. 12 2009 19:46:28
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