Ricardo -> RE: Emphasizing compas downbeats (Oct. 19 2012 19:15:26)
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I suppose this doesn't mean that one could use the count of 6 when playing normal bulerias(of 12's compas)? you don't count in 6...or there is no "count of 6". if counting is done at all, it's for dance and you count 12 cuz it relates to solea...or in spanish you only count to 10 plus two beats counted as 1,2 again. if half compas is counted it is counted as 7,8,9,10,1,2....7,8,9,10,1,2...etc. but its not counted anyway...you just feel it. Many spaniards just count to 3 anyway and only to establish tempo. "un dos tre" and off you go. I already stated beginners need to just learn compas patterns and phrases from maestros that they trust work in compas, and internalize them. Of course learning from books and scores is less than inspiring at times...cuz that's not how it's done traditionally anyway. You get the pattern and you play it, that's it. And you add to it falsetas and phrases and new patterns after you have mastered and internalized the first ones. And on forever until you have to play for a dancer and try to relate what you know how to play to their movements. Then you have to understand what 7,8,9,10 means abstractly, and even then you are relating numbers to a feeling inside. Later a dancer says cut on 4, come in on 8, 9, and 9.5 you stop.....and it is already felt cuz you know what the numbers mean.
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