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chapman_g -> RE: Rafael Riqueni (Feb. 18 2011 17:57:09)
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Thanks for posting the Riqueni interview. So what does it take to play really well, and we are not even talking creating yet, just the physical playing development?
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You were one of the first to know what it was like to be Manolo Sanlucar's disciple and neighbor. When I was a child I spent a week in his house in Santander. It was incredible. We would get up at nine, and play non-stop until midnight. One in one room, and the other in another, listening to each other but without talking. I didn’t dare to ask him anything until I was sure what I had to play for him and that I would be able to play it half well…and we didn’t let up, don’t think we stopped for a siesta, it was continuous.
What were you working on?
Mostly right-hand technique, which is the most difficult. Position, arpeggios, tremolo, picado, fingering, relaxing the thumb…not so much specific music. It was guitar technique and learning to get easy with it. I still do those exercises.
Had to add this following quote from the interview too: “You have to begin accompanying cante and dance. And live through a thousand fiestas. And one day you’ll play well, and another you’ll get lost in the compás, the next day a little better…and with a bottle of whisky and your buddies…that’s how you learn”
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