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Jon Boyes -> RE: Buleria? for Ron (Sep. 29 2004 10:14:25)
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ORIGINAL: Ron.M
Try this one Jon
www.btinternet.com/~flamenco/weirdkey.mp3
Well Ron, thats a corker! [:D]
I just spent an hour or so thikning about this and I really should be doing other things.[;)]
First of all, the bulerias does have a 'tonal centre' of A, taking capo as the nut. There are clear remates to A in several places, especially at the beginning and the end.
He is however, using an altered tuning, and he does play 'outside' a lot. By that I mean he is straying outside A phrygian (the usually mode for buleria) and doing a lot of things a jazz player would do. His fondness for playing outside together with the altered tuning give it that 'weird key' sound. [Note: I avoided using the word 'key' above because with music like this the word 'key' ceases to have any useful meaning, and in any case technically speaking the correct 'key' for bulerias is actually F major as A phrygian is the third mode of F. - Lets just say its played por medio [:D]].
Ok, enough theory flim flam, try this:
tune 2nd string down to Bb
tune 6th down to Bb also (yes, I know!)
Capo at 5
opening chords:
0
0
1
0
X
X
3
3
4
3
X
X
widdly bit, then resolves to his main bulerias A chord which he uses a lot:
0
0
2
2
0
X
That ridiculous low 6th string then allows you to play the falseta at 40 seconds in.
He may be altering other strings, but this seems to work when I played with it. The only way to a get a clearer picture of all the strings would be to transcribe it all and see if everything works, which I don't have time to do.
Cheers.
Jon
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