Guest -> RE: beginners composing tips? anybody else? (May 10 2005 13:38:27)
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Hola Miguel´s advice is absolutely spot-on, especially for foreign aficionados who cannot really tell how flamenco their compositions are: there is nothing more likely to stop you in your tracks than a cantaor who turns around and says "Yes, those are the tones of alegrías and you have compás, but what you are playing is not alegrías". The other night I was invited to a rehearsal of a group consisting of cantaor, tocaor, cajonista, palmera y violinista. They were working on a colombiana and the violin had the solo. The girl playing violin is Swiss, classically trained, and played a meaningless improvisation in rhythm. Afterwards she asked my opinion and I told her. She said she knew nothing about colombianas and did not know what to play. I told her to play cante based falsetas, which are much easier on violin than on the guitar. Then I borrowed the guitar and played some of the falsetas from the Paco Peña/Sanlúcar colombianas, which is entirely cante based. She became very excited, insisted on recording the falsetas and went off to study them. I suggested that she should learn them straight, then look for harmonies and musically related development and make periodic returns to the characteristic bass run of columbianas. A ver. This is basically the advice of Miguel and is very important, unless you are compositionally gifted and flamenco too. Suerte Sean
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