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Ricardo -> RE: My arrangement of Gerardo's Paso Doble (Apr. 27 2010 20:59:06)
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Thanks I checked it all out. Like my ear was telling me you have some weird accidentals. I guess if they are intentional I can't say much. The first thing that jumps to me is the repeat usuage of the chromatic D-C#-C natural phrase you have in various voices and in harmonically strange spots. Since you repeat it I guess it was intentional. The D major RIGHT after the Amajor rasgueado closing was crazy too, but I got the point. Later there was an Eb out of nowhere that was weird going to the Dminor. Then an Ab against a Gdim7.... and in one spot the big D minor you have the voice doing 16ths that comes in with Bb on the down beats both times. I just feel that Bb note changes all the color of the Dm chord, but is ok passing, but on the down beat it is very meaningful to me.
I guess, none of these things I say really matter if you did this all very deliberate. I did notice something curious on page 11 that makes me wonder about how deliberate your accidentals are. There is an A# following a Bb literally in the 3rd voice second measure. [8D] Maybe that was an accident but normally it would tell me something wacky is going on like maybe you are just experimenting?
Now I noticed Todd did something too which is obvious much more "tonal" and diatonic, but he over does the portamentos and glissandos so it all sounds too argentine tangoish. But I guess that is point of the extra part added to the guitar, so it's all good. His is piazzolla style, yours Webern style.[;)][:)]
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