Miguel de Maria -> RE: Practising without a guitar (Apr. 2 2005 16:24:45)
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Ricardo, you're doing good, man. When I get enough skeelz, I'm going to learn that piece. Gigs will go by fast when I'm playing pieces that long! :) Isn't it a beautiful piece? You could cop a lot of that for some falsetas por solea por bulerias :) I have a friend who is an accomplished CGer and I think a good flamenco player too--his name is Craig Alden Dell. He concertizes, plays the Aranjuez with orchestra, and has a couple albums out. Here was his response to my question, which is harder: "Hey Miguel, It has been my personal experience that all things considered, the Chaconne would be. Of course, things are relative too, like, to play Flamenco at Vicente Amigo's level compared to a [particular classical guitarist] or etc., then I would say that Flamenco is the more difficult. One thing that is quite challenging in the Flamenco genre is the mastery of the rhythms to the point where physicality is transcended and Duende steers the player to a place of sheer improvisational genius outside of technical limitations. This would be to attain the height of what can be reached within the human experience and therefore considerations of levels of difficulty fall by the wayside. However, the reason the I feel that all things considered, Classical guitar is the "harder" of the two is because in a concert setting I've noticed that it is much harder to maintain the level of silence needed to distinguish the attack of right hand for the Classical guitar in contrast to that silence, as compared to the attack rendered by the apt Flamenco guitarist which glorifies the acceptance and even encouragement of all manner of percussive noise indigenous to the form. In other words, total technical clarity is a must with one and not even so much as a consideration with the other. Although one should be clean in either style, an almost "noiseless perfection" of execution must be present before the Classical player can even be considered in the running, whereas this isn't even part of the criterion of Flamenco guitar. I really adore the "heart" aspect of Flamenco which happens simultaneously with a good player. To attain this with Classical guitar is a much greater challenge in my opinion. So much must first be in place before the heart is revealed if at all. You obviously have a pretty congruent network of folks to spend your day with. This is great!! I'd like to be there! Until later, - Craig"
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