Lonnie -> RE: What do you want cantaor/a to know? (Aug. 29 2012 17:48:04)
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ORIGINAL: koenie17 1. Sing in tune and "a compas" I love it when a singer knows how and when to help me out with some palmas. 2. Now how to create an atmosfere and make the tercios more interesting for example: thirst tercio mas templaito(more soft kinda spoken) and for the parte mas valiente, has to be really valiente no holding back. 3. Be clear about things, like I do my best to acompany the cantaor/a the best I can. So for me it´s nice if the singer tries to interact with me as well. I don´t like it if i have to chase the singer all the time. 4. I don´t like the nosey/high in the throat sound all the time, especially for a female voice. 5. I just like to play and listen to cante. I´m not a profesional!! So when I´m enjoying myself I play better. So please don´t get crazy when I make a mistake. For me the best guitarist/singers are the one that know how to get away nicely with a mistake[:)] Koenie17, this is lovely - direct, simple, easy to follow, clear. So it's a good checklist for me (whereas some other posts are classes at the 400 level). 1. Check. Singing in tune is incredibly important to me but sometimes I catch myself "off" a hair. It has to be a goal. Compas I love love love, getting pretty good at it. This gives guitarist Dave more freedom to be creative. I cannot do palmas all the time but definitely will do it to communicate with Dave and to bring my thread into the fabric of the whole group. 2. I really enjoy this aspect, too, in part because the song has to move from somewhere to somewhere else, in part because I do understand the letra and react and emote correspondingly. The more valiente (in appropriate places) the more our audience (and we) get out of it. Having fun learning to let it loose! 3. Our troupe is actually made up of two happily married couples plus a varying assortment of dancers. So much of what I do is in fact a love song to my wonderful husband. It's communication, it's fun, it's creating something together, it's a bit of bragging: "See? We know how to make beautiful music together!" So this part is easy. How difficult it must be when troupe members don't like each other! 4. I don't think I do that sound. People comment about my low, throaty sound. Eh. That means I need to expand into higher areas while keeping it flamenco. Hm! 5. We call this stage presence; professionalism. We all acknowledge that we make mistakes all the time. The point is to not let the audience know that you did that. We pull stuff over on people all the time, even people from Spain. If you've goofed but have good compas and a bit of creativity, you can pull little flamenco rabbits out of your hat while the rest of the troupe does what it's supposed to do. Dave makes me look good All The Time. The least I can do is to just keep singing when he burps. Re: mistakes... watching a video of oneself is very instructive. Cringe-making at times, but useful. Someone commented that they liked my singing in "Isla Mujeres" (thank you very much!). That particular video is cringe-making for me because, for the first and only time, I started with the second instead of the first verse! That is, he gets her in bed right from the start. No anxious longing, no competition with the other guys. I don't even know how I fixed it. But anyone who understands Spanish would have had a hard time following the story. It's the best video we have of my worst version. [:'(] Upon watching it, I saw that I telegraphed my concern about having messed up. Ooo, bad! But Dave, bless him, just kept on going. Maybe that was because he never listens to the words. I'd love to spend the rest of the day replying to lots of these posts but, alas, must go teach Spanish. Flamenco just don't pay. [;)]
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