mark indigo -> RE: Foot tapping while playing (Sep. 18 2012 11:51:21)
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It really is difficult for me(a flamenco newb) to pay attention to the beats and I really need some practice... That's why I really need at least a foot to keep me up with the beats. What would be a good method to learn to play with compas properly? Practice tips would be welcome... I guess one basic method would be to learn some basic flamenco songs(starting with soleares for example) and play them with flamenco compas(such as flamenco master) many times and later on move to foot tapping. there are lots of things you can do, and lots of people will have different recommendations, often they will be telling you what has worked for them, so it will be worth a try, even if it doesn't work so well for you there are a lot of vids on youtube, as well as stuff available to buy, so if you want to know what tapping pattern you should be doing for what palo, watch a whole bunch and see what the guitarist does play along with a metronome and tap your foot with the beats or accents or pulse or whatever patterns you pick up go back to the videos and watch and listen to the palmas, and learn those patterns too, then you can practise palmas along with cd's, mp3's etc. This will really help your timing and sense of compas all these things are often recommended by teachers (ie. they are not any kind of original ideas of my own!) i learnt to tap the 1,2, 4,5, 7,8, 10,11 pattern for bulerias mentioned above almost by accident. I thought it would be impossible for me to learn to tap this with my foot and play at the same time. I got a programmable metronome for general use (turns out i hardly use it anymore, but it was good for this story!), i programmed it to that pattern, and practised bulerias along to it. Before long i was tapping my foot along with the metronome without hardly realising it. if you don't have a programmable metronome and you want to experiment like this, you can get a normal tick, tick metronome and record yourself playing palmas along to it, the 1,2 4,5 pattern, or whatever. You get to practise the palmas to a metronome, and then you have a rhythm track to practise playing guitar to![:)] This also is something recommended to me by several teachers
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