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srshea -> RE: Starting over - recommendations please (Sep. 6 2012 18:34:51)
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Ditto what Anders sez.
Despite the winking smiley, my Ron’s solea suggestion was definitely straight-up. Worked through the second half last night, and I’m pretty stoked to be adding this one to my bag of tricks. A few variations on stuff I already play, but it’s nice to stretch a bit and play that stuff with different chord voicings and little details, instead of just falling back on the same ol', same ol’.
Also, I’m a total white boy and typically pick stuff up from tabs, so it’s a nice exercise to work on getting stuff just from audio and blurry video. I had to listen a little closer and work a bit harder, but it is a more satisfying way to learn, and after just two sittings with that falseta I feel like it has already “stuck” in a way that doesn’t always to happen with stuff I learn from tabs. When I learn stuff from tabs I often get chained to the tabs, or the stuff just comes and goes without every really sinking in.
And I’m pretty sure the first part of the falesta is a variation on something from Pepe Habichuela’s first record (yes? no? don’t have that record here and can’t find it on youtube), so that fits in with Maximilian’s suggestion, and goes back to your Granadino roots.
I guess it’s poor forum etiquette to cut and paste from another thread, but [8|] :
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You're going to see more of me as I tackle a fresh approach to flamenco. I want to work much more on compás, chords, thumb work and rasgeados - which is at the core of the guitar, rather than fancy arps., picado and tremelo. This was something Ron was passionate about and I would like to see if I can do it. So, I will need some help.
I’m in the same boat. I hit a hand injury in, I think, the summer of ’09 and pretty much lost nearly three years of playing. Whenever I did pick up the guitar I made zero progress, and for the most part I just bagged it, and got to thinking about selling it all off and finding something else to do with my time.
But, I got back on the horse this spring, playing an hour a day and managing my, now three, hand injuries, and after a few months of getting back into the swing of things and building some chops back up I started hitting the same old walls from years previous. Having all that time taken away, and weighing the choice of giving up or going on put things into a pretty clear perspective for me, and I realized that if I’m going to get on with this stuff, which I plan to do (tried quitting; didn’t stick,) then I should buckle down and do it right.
So, instead of always fiddling around and having a bunch of scattered crap that I can sort of almost play in a half-assed way, I’ve stripped everything waaaaayyy down to basics. I’m going very slowly, playing a lot of stuff at half speed, and working only on a handful of very basic meat-and-potatoes things in the core toques, solea, tangos, tientos, siguiriyas, FdH, alegrias, bulerias. Nothing fancy at all, but I’m working on getting it to all sound GOOD. Real flamenco tone, tight compas, aire, swing. Pretty much exactly what Ron always told us to focus on, and which Ricardo continues to bust our balls about.
Starting over, indeed.
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