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JasonMcGuire -> RE: Flamenco-lessons.com turns 2 - A new challenge... (Mar. 26 2009 8:10:18)
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There is so much (too much) going on in your brain when you get older.
You overanalyze everything, want to be sure that everything is perfect, are feared to do something wrong, underestimate your abilities, and all this stuff is happening in your brain at the same time when your fingers are moving over the fretboard. Conclusion is that you play crap.
Many artists use meditation to help focus. I could see how a discipline like meditation could be very helpful.
Roberto is a normal 10 year old aside from playing guitar. He is silly, rides bikes, climbs trees, tries to eat as much candy as possible etc... Our many wandering thoughts change as we get older, but for the most part and maybe even to a greater degree, children have a swarm of ideas and questions in the mind at any given time. The difference is with Roberto is that when he begins to play he becomes focused on making it a priority. I do the same after a couple of cold beers.[:D]
Another thing about Roberto is that when he makes a mistake he doesn't get upset with himself. I make him aware of the mistake and he simply corrects the error the best he can. At the beginning of this one-hour class, he played the falseta COMPLETELY out of compas. I had to simply mention that his "guess" at the rhythm was incorrect.
I played the falseta several times while he played tapado compas (role reversal). By having him "measure the compas" by using tapado, he could begin to feel the falseta in his hands. I would urge all of you having difficulty with rhythm to use this technique for learning. It of course requires that you are able first to play tapado accurately. In my experience it works well to get students to play in compas better.
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