srshea -> RE: stretching the compas vs out of compas (Mar. 31 2010 15:53:00)
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I think the real bottom line issue is maintaining the right accents and projecting the proper feel of the toque. That, and control and intention. That’s what holds everything together and makes it “work”, whether playing at a steady tempo or stretching and playing with rubato. You could play a metronomically precise solea with all the right chord changes in all the right places, and all the usual melodic “stuff” that you expect to hear in a solea, all perfectly fit into a twelve beat cycle, but if you played it totally flat, without accents, and without the feel of solea, it wouldn’t really work, in the best possible sense. Definitely ain’t no one gonna wanna dance to it. Play the same solea, but with solid accents and a solea pulse that everyone can feel and follow, and then you can get away with stretching the tempo (within reason, and within the context of what you’re doing). I think it all boils down to whether it’s done with deliberate intention in a controlled manner, and if what’s being played has a palpable pulse and feel that can be followed.
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