Ricardo -> RE: Cante accompaniment, who to learn from? (Jun. 19 2011 22:23:01)
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simply put, you can't learn how to accompany singing without a singer. And you will be limited if you are learning with only ONE singer as well. The only way is to get out there and make mistakes and learn from them. Safest is to play for a dancer that sings so the letras are all mapped out and you have to repeat. Later you can try with only a singer who is good and improvises. Learning only from a guitarist can leave having learned almost nothing about cante accompaniment. As far as what to play on guitar, start by focusing on ONE guitarist whom their style of accompanying you like. Do what he did, focusing also say one song style with different singers. Melchor, Morao, Moraito, Cepero, De lucia, etc all played for many singers. More modern players are not so great to emulate because they are associated with less number of singers usually. (a fault of the practice of modern recordings where they contract several different guitarists for one singer). For example Tomatito with camaron then all the camaroneros is not much a stretch in terms of variation. Nor Vicente with pele and a couple others or Chicuelo with Barcelona people. Even though they are all great, you might not be learning the point of how to deal with very different singing styles. When I say learn from the guitarist, I mean just the chords and answers to the cante, not the Picados or falsetas. Just get the jist of what you need in terms of song forms from what they do. Compare to even older players (Ramon Montoya) and modern players (Diego del morao say) and try to understand what they ALL are doing the same. That is important before you start trying to do it yourself. Finally if your compas is shaky, don't waste the singer's time. Make sure you are on point with your compas and can't be thrown off, because your focus of accompanying will mainly be tonos, timing needs to be a non issue before you begin. If you are not sure of this, that is what the cante accomp thread may help you with to save you the embarrasment or frustration. Better to upload with a pre recorded singer and get critic the foro then to have a singer tell you you are not ready. Ricardo
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