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Erik van Goch -> RE: Hi out of the Alps (Aug. 2 2013 15:50:13)
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Welcome to the foro and greetings from Holland.
In Soleares you indeed tend to vary your speed according to the amount of time you need to play the notes. In general you tend to slow down when things become more difficult (for instance when lots of notes have to be played in 1 beat) and you speed up again in beats that are more easy to play. That's a common lack of control/awareness most of us suffered in the beginning. Best thing is to make sure you understand exactly which notes belong to which (part of the) beat and to adapt a speed that allows you to play the more difficult parts without slowing down. This means you have to slow down the more easy to play bits to this lower speed as well. You'll probably experience that playing easy to play parts more slowly can be equally difficult as playing the more difficult parts a little faster :-)
Personally when i study new and old material i generally work on small bits and pieces only, selecting a few notes at the time trying to get them better and better focusing on various aspects at the time. My first aim is to understand there context and to play them with a fluent technique, not minding the rhythm yet (i take all the time i need to make sure my fingers/hand/arm move the correct way). Once the correct moves are covered i play it with the correct rhythm/interpretation....first slowly and gradually faster. Once i can play it fast enough i glue it to other parts i also studied separately. If i choose to play a whole compas/piece i select a speed that allows me to include the more difficult parts without fluctuating the rhythm....when playing for real the challenge is to keep a steady rhythm at all time and to know exactly what is going on. If things go wrong (again) i study that little part separately without the pressure of having to play it then and now (again giving full attention to each note taking as much time as i need to play it correctly).
You should abandon that last Am chord. It suggest that soleares is played in the Aminor scale (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,a) wile in reality Soleares is played in F-phrygian (e,f,g,a,b,c,d,e), same notes but different tonal feeling/ending. In general soleares does end on beat 10 on it's basic chord E.
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