Jon Boyes -> RE: Hey Jon! (Juan Martin's Rumba) (Oct. 27 2004 10:50:45)
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ORIGINAL: Graeme Jon, much enjoyed your "accompanying" tale. Just wondering, you say Mercedes corrected your (Juan Martin's?) rumba accenting. Would you care to expand on this for me? Cheers, Graeme I'll try.. I played her a couple of rumba variations that Juan plays with the slap on the guitar on beat one and she said it was not right, she wanted the accent on beat three. That how she described it, although I think she meant she wanted the accent 'on strum three' in terms of what I was actually playing. Accenting beat three (in musical terms) doesn't make sense to me here because my understanding of the rumba rhythm against a brisk 4/4 count is: one ...twoand...four In other words count out one, two, three, four and tap the table on beat one, between beats two and three, and then on beat four. The off beat in the middle gives rumba that swing. Now it could be that I have got something badly wrong, in which case I'm sure one of the other guys will rescue me here [:D], but I suspect this confusion is because dancers rarely play the guitar and can't always communicate in musical terms what they want. I'm hoping to get her to play me some solo rumba accompaniment from one of her CDs to show me what she wants. This seems to be the best approach at the moment. I'll post some more about this soon. She's asking me to play falsetas now, which is inteteresting, as I assumed she's be more interested in just having good compas to dance to. Jon
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