Erik van Goch -> RE: PDL says you dont need to study ! (Nov. 15 2013 18:06:19)
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ORIGINAL: Ricardo paco did not learn it from the score at all, it was too time consuming, so he just showed him how to play it in person....traditional flamenco style. (Mclaughlin and Al Di did the same since paco couldn't read charts or even pick up every detail from the tapes they sent him, but in minutes he learned the trio stuff face to face). Still in a written and translated interview Paco claims that his concert tour with the trio was nerve wracking to him because the harmonies and scales used sounded like an alien world to a him. "I had sleepless nights about it, sometimes was totally lost and spend a lot of time trying to figure out which melody notes would fit on a certain chord. After each concert i had a headache". He explains his troubles by the fact that for the first time in his life he had to think about his actions. Up to that moment i had always played automatically without thinking but now i had to think all the time, at least in the beginning. In an other interview he tells that he used a study book to analyze the de Falla pieces wile making a duet for 2 guitars. I first recorded the left hand of the piano, fallowed by the rest. According to Paco it was a very precise and time consuming activity but totally in line with the kind of discipline he loved in al his other activities. According to the dutch translation he said "maybe it's more simple to learn how to read but i don't feel like it. Also there is the danger you are going to play differently but in my case that is not very likely. I play what i feel anyhow. But a little bit more knowledge about theory and harmony maybe is recommendable on the long run. A lot of people claim that this influences your playing but i think that is just an excuse." Obviously a written and translated interview is not a very reliable source but if that was indeed what he said in the mid/late 80ties he either changed his mind....... or is making up excuses :-).
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