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Jon Boyes -> RE: book? (Jan. 13 2005 8:30:09)
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ORIGINAL: antonio
Hi,
Does anyone know of a good book with solos (solo pieces) for a beguiner?
Well, not really a total beguiner in guitar but perhaps beguiner -intermediate in flamenco.
Thank you
Antonio
Paco's Toques Flamencos is a great collection of traditional style solos stuffed full of trad falsetas, but they are definitely pitched at intermediate level, and assume that all the techniques, compas knowledege are already there. There is no real 'instruction', save a couple of pages at the beginning which really only serve to de-mystify Paco's unique method of scoring this stuff.
A couple of the pieces in the book (the rumba, eh Mike? [;)]) are IMO quite advanced. They are long (often running into a dozen pages of score or more!), and require a fair bit of work if you want to learn whole pieces (not necessarily a good idea anyway).
It might be better to opt for the Juan Material. IMO, the video series that Grame mentions is the best bet because you get playable solos that aren't too long AND lots of instruction/explanation. Only drawback is the tiny books with them that have about two lines of score per page [:D]
Personally, I do not like Juan's latest DVD material as its targetted at beginners yet there doesn't seem to be much instruction there. I am teaching a guy some stuff at the moment who bought this DVD and dived straight in - I am having to unravel a lot of stuff with him - all he is seeing is notes on a page and he's missing the fundamental compas and aire of the different palos.
Graf Martinez has some excellent tuition material, but he concentrates on compas and doesn't really go in for solos until you get to the end of book 2 which is really intermediate/advanced.
HTH.
Jon
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