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Jon Boyes -> RE: alzupau (Dec. 9 2004 19:25:28)
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Ok, lets start again.
In a sequence, Alzapua usually starts on the 'middle' part of the stroke ie where P plays a downstroke chord (this isn't usually the second stroke as was said earlier)
..then you have the P upstroke on the chord
..then finally you have apoyando on the bass string
That's the usual order for the sequence to start in, and the golpe, if you do one, is always on that first strike. If you are starting with the apoyando, I can see why it makes sense to accent there, but that isn't how its normally played.
Its incorrect to say that that the golpe is 'essential' ie always played as part of the three note sequence - it simply isn't. I just went and checked material by Juan Martin, Paco pena, PDL, tomatito and Graf Martinez and I couldn't find a single example where the golpe was played on every single 'middle' stroke.
Indeed, even if it was humanly possible at the speeds PDL & co play triplets as Mike believes, it would sound like a woodpecker on the guitar top and I've never heard that by anyone.
No, what all these players do is put an occasional golpe in the sequence where they want to emphasise the odd chord in a sequence (Eg Tomatito Tangos falseta 1 from his video) or superimpose a counter rhythm on top of the golpe pattern by picking out certain chords (eg PDL in his Solea on the Light & Shade vid.)
two quotes of relevance:
"First, the thumb plays a downstroke chord across the strings, starting from a well-defined note as the lowest note of the chord that is sounded. This note belongs to the melody and is the most important part of the chord, whose exact extent onto higher strings is therefore not crucial. A golpe is often played to coincide with the thumbstroke." (Juan Martin)
"P begins with a donstroke on the middle string of the group of three strings..to emphasise this downstroke you can execute an addional golpe with a." (Graf Martinez)
(emphasis mine)
Jon
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