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Randal -> New to forum (Jan. 30 2010 16:07:08)
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Greetings from Montana, USA. I'm quite excited to have found this forum, as I'm also tremendously excited to be returning to flamenco guitar after playing other instruments in other styles the past several years. After grade school woodwinds, nylon-string guitar is really my 'first' instrument since undertaking formal classical guitar study at age 14. Later, an infatuation with bossa nova further enamoured me with nylon-string guitar. Then, living around Denver in 1992, I heard Rene Heredia being interviewed on the radio and immediately felt the magic of flamenco. I studied the Juan Martin method 'El Arte de Flamenco' assiduously for several years. But, as I sought work playing out, I delved away from practicing solo guitar and played just about every other style of ensemble music...to the point where after grad school I was only playing drums. Fast forward about ten years, and I recently acquired the opportunity to weekly accompany a bellydance troupe where I play Arabic rhythms and improvise in Phrygian on bouzouki and saz. But I love the purity and elegance of nylon string guitar--my first. I aspire to introduce the dancers to some flamenco compas and have been recovering my form on guitar. As I said, I am very excited to be returning to flamenco guitar! It's my favorite guitar style (and, there is nothing sexier than a flamenco guitar [;)]).
Cheers!
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