Guest -> RE: Accompanying Alegrias Baile (Jun. 2 2005 21:48:17)
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Hola Billyboy I have just come from the Peña de la Perla, where a pick-up group from Cadiz are trying to mount an alegrias for a girl from Sevilla, who arrived last week to take part in the Concurso de Baile por Alegrías and was let down by her group. The "pick-up" group is de lujo: al cante: Jose Millan, 30+years experience of singing for dance, Juan Ramon Ortega, who accompanies dance 4 nights weekly and Naim, a young dancer/cajon player with incredible compás. The escobilla guitar is simple, 2 chords but the compás is very tight. Compás ALWAYS rules and even in Cadiz, simplicity with compas is preferred. The silencio in minor. As for falsetas, are you really sure that they have rock solid compás??? You should NEVER do anything to annoy the dancer. And yes there is more or less a strict sequence of intro, coplas, perhaps a remate por bulerías, then the silencio. There usedt be a connecting part called the ida, but nowadys it is replaced with a short section of bulerías. A remate and the escobilla whilh speeds up and changes to bulerías de Cádiz to end. Of couse there are endless variations, but from the guitarist´s point of view, CÓMPAS, CÓMPAS Y CÓMPAS. suerte Sean
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