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El Kiko -> RE: Hello, Am I in the right place? (Jun. 9 2010 15:57:06)
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Muy Señor Ricardo
Oh dear , a note now from the great man himself....how disconcerting, ,……..
What I transcribed was Café Solé but the version I used I found this on a youtube video marked ………..
Ricardo plays his rumba and stays unpertubed...
playing his rumba in the patio of the hotel los helechos…………
This is a version , strangely enough, that I prefer as oppose to the album version I heard a sample of, and another version of that same rumba on a guitar that I’m sure isn’t as pink as it may appear on camera.
(Mine sometimes looks like a pure white guitar if I sit in the light as it is a very light Cyprus yellow)
It is a nice tune and nice to play depending on how detailed you want to be, I do take many liberties with many tunes and can change bits to suit myself (or make it easier !) I suppose it’s the jazz left in me, I didn’t change any of your tune except a bit at near the very end where it has a nice riff going to a low F(ma6) and E that is too good to miss out on, and I play that bit twice before moving on, why waste a good thing !!
Sorry I promise I won’t do it again.
But I think the point of music is the sound and feel as oppose to every note correct, so I think if these two things are preserved albeit a matter of opinion then the music should be good.
Many people think that flamenco music shouldn’t be written down or that it can’t be as too much is lost, and I do see their point as in Spain falsetas are kind of passed around changed then passed on again.
Anyway apart from liking that particular version of Café Solé I also avoid having to write the harmony lines and any counterpoint that occurs in the studio version, But I kind of favour a guitar sounding like a guitar, and a Conde Hermanos at that, a touch of reverb (maybe) and I bit of EQ is as far as I’d go, please don’t think of this as criticism , just my personal taste.
Transcribing that wasn’t too bad except a few bits here and there but I always transcribe with a pencil and a rubber to get it all into shape as I have done since college, and later I would make a clean copy.
In this case, as some others too, I just left it as a scribble with smudges on it as no-one else was to see it anyway.
Also I did start to work on a Bulerias that you play where you seem to be sitting in a kitchen, yours I presume, and this maybe called ‘Mi copita de Jerez’ as the sample of your album sounds like part of this.
This one I gave up on, as the idea of writing it was to play it one day and this did not seem to fall very well under my fingers, so I left it for a while, which is another way of saying ‘ it’s too hard for me to play’
I did look up some stuff about you as I was curios as to why you had a picture of Gerado Nuñez on your avatar here, and you studied with him, vaya vaya,
Another thing there was that I recently worked out a Sevillas by him , from Calima CD, this I didn’t write down and probably never will, but I do play it, but still trying to get it to “feel right”, I find in flamenco playing the right notes is only half the battle.
I suppose I'm just bieng lazy now in the transcritions and they can be a bit time consuming, and I need to actually play more as I still have so much more to do just to reach the dizzy level of being a bad flamenco player, that's one step up from being a terrible Flamenco player,...... paso a paso...
Kiko
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