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mark indigo -> RE: Left Hand (Jan. 5 2014 21:56:42)
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I don't know if Sabicas learned about Aguado through Escudero or Montoya but there are way too many bars of music in all of their playing which are identical to passages in Aguados method to presume either indifference or ignorance. Escudero quotes Sor pretty liberally and also Napoleon Coste.
There is A LOT of Earl Scruggs in Nunez' Trafalgar. Also a fair amount of Lauro and Garoto in his Valse.
Even more bizarrely there are frequent Freddie Green quotes in Serranito's playing. Close listening to Tomatito leads me to assume that he got his Wes Montgomery licks from George Benson.
They all seem to have soaked up a lot of the vernacular and technical approach of a wide variety of players in all sorts of styles and to have done so without prejudice.
I appreciate other styles of music, and listen to other styles, but for me there is so much flamenco to listen to, so much to study and learn, I know I will never get through it in my lifetime.... but if and when I do I might turn my attention to other styles of music.
Until then I will continue to focus on flamenco.
I am far more interested in what flamenco players create when they listen to other styles of music than I am in those other styles themselves. That's not a prejudice, it's a preference.
If someone wants to learn and play flamenco they should study flamenco, not go by some spurious route via some other style of music. If they want to play some other style of music then study that, there's probably a forum for discussing it too.
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