zata -> RE: Bulerías basic timekeeping. (Dec. 13 2006 10:49:05)
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Oh, and in regards to "iron clad" and putting a metronome against flamenco players, you would be surprised how precise they are if you find the exact tempo. This is not true, and there are no surprises because I've spent some time investigating this. The metronome will only work with newer recordings made with a claqueta in order to facilitate editing. Records used to be recorded direct, as is, like a live performance, but now imperfections are removed or retouched, instruments added after the fact...none of this can be done without a claqueta. And it's not a question of "precision", in fact all a claqueta does is make flamenco sound as stale as a disco mix. Take an older recording of someone we might all consider to have a driving, unrelenting rhythm, such as Marote in his recording with Bernarda and Fernanda. It sounds as solid as a brick wall, anyone can dance, do palmas, play along with, or sing to it with no problem, yet there is no way to set a metronome to it. This is the reason why when you get a guitarist in one room and a singer in another, able to hear each other but unable to see one another, even though both begin in perfect unison, it takes only a couple of beats before each is going down his own rhythmic path. I was at a crowded fiesta in Granada a few months ago...the guitarist was right next to me but there was a slim decorative partition between us and too many people to be able to glimpse one another. I started singing, and in seconds there was no unison...we tried again...again it didn't work. Finally we realized we could see each other's feet, and only by observing each other's beat as marked by the feet were we able to get it together...very edifying experience.
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