Ricardo -> RE: Please help me--pootete beginnerr beginner? (Mar. 29 2009 7:44:19)
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So chromatic is the most common flamenco scale, and you recommend beginners get fluent with it? Umm, no man![:D] My point was flamenco is not about scales at all....per say. The chromatic scale simply means ALL AVAILABLE NOTES on the neck. You can't just make it up and improvise. Many people have miss conceptions about flamenco music and guitar playing, this is one very common one. That is why you might get responses like this: [&:] Because it is frustrating for people to teach or explain around that concept. You need to listen to flamenco, and read just a little about it. It is hard for people on a forum like this, many who have been deeply involved in flamenco for years, to simply inform you verbally what flamenco IS. I had to teach a guitar workshop yesterday, and NONE Of the students had heard flamenco before. So the first thing I explained was what rhythm guitar is in flamenco (Compas strumming) and FALSETAS (short melodic sections.) So Falsetas on guitar are everything that is NOT strumming chords. A single falseta could be as short as ONE COMPAS (a single rhythm cycle), or as long as dozens of compases. Even a flamenco player could string together many falsetas to make a composition with no compas strumming in between. What is most typical, as in the tomatito example, is that a guitar solo is made up of unrelated falsetas of a particular form (bulerias, solea, fandango, whatever is being played), bookended by compas or rhythm guitar. And it can be arranged so that the falsetas are always in a certain oder, or they can be played in a random order, however the guitarist feels. When accompanying singing or dancing, most of what is required is simply compas strumming. THe falsetas are reserved for the introduction perhaps, and interlude in the middle, but that is a big generalization and there is not a rule about it. For the beginners of flamenco, i think it is important that you listen to a lot of flamenco even before learning techniques of playing. The reason is the technique really come out of the music, not vice versa. It is important that if a teacher says "today we will work on Solea" that you the student already know sort of what that might sound like. Vs if he said "today we will look a TARANTA" or "Tangos" etc. I know it seems foreign and like you need to be a flamencologist at first, but it is really important. When encountering a music from a culture that is NOT your own, you have to respect certain things about it, such as the terminology used, and even methods of learning. The student who wants to learn things "his own way" that makes him happy, will not get very far IMO. Ricardo
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