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Mark2 -> RE: dance question (May 12 2005 17:14:47)
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It should improve your ability to play for dance, but unless you stay with dance for a while, it may not help your compas that much. Dance classes tend to teach steps, and there are dance students who have been at it for a while who still don't have much compas, even though they may know a lot of steps or even whole dances. You can see that when they try to do the dance without the teacher. But if you already know some compas, and learn how those steps fit into the compas, I'm pretty sure you would make a lot of progress. I've never spent much time learning dance-my daughter taught me a few steps and I've played for enough dance that I could fake marking and maybe a llamada, but I do know some local guitarists that have put more time into it. Frankly, I don't think their compas is any better than the guitarists who have spent a lot time playing for dance. OTOH, there is a guitarist from Spain working in the US that is probably the best in the country and he started as a dancer. When he gets up for a fin de fiesta, he's got the stuff. In fact, I love it when the guitarist gets up at the end of the show-they are just sitting there the whole time pumping out compas while all the dancers are doing their thing. Then they get their shot at the end, and it's usually something simple but powerful that they express. Many times the energy they project is so flamenco, that it's more moving than the thousand steps you just saw from the "real" dancers. For that reason alone, it's worth it for a guitarist to learn how to mark por bulerias.
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