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Richard Jernigan -> RE: Paco's masterpiece (Apr. 7 2014 20:24:55)
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ORIGINAL: Lenador
I'm gonna hold a class down at the Y for classical guitarists, "How to strum a guitar 101"
lolol, I've seen julean bream do it too, it's soooo awkward looking and sounding.
Pepe Romero is the only classical guitarist I have seen who has a decent rasgueado--except for Grisha of course, and his concert partner Jerome Mouffe is picking it up pretty well. Grisha and Jerome played classical and flamenco duets at their concert on March 29, Grisha played flamenco solos, Jerome played classical solos, one of them amazingly difficult, pulling it off very well.
The day before the concert, they gave a master class at the University Of Texas at Austin. Some good players played for them. Adam Holzman, the head of the University guitar department was there.
The most virtuosic student played the last movement of Rodrigo's Sonata Giocosa, which is guajiras in form and meter, with a fair amount of rasgueado. Her rhythm was dead square, no guajiras swing, but her playing was accurate and fluent, good dynamics. Her rasgueados didn't sound nearly as bad as most classical guitarists, but she sounded notably better after Grisha's rasgueado lesson.
Grisha gave a very detailed description and demonstration of flamenco style a-m-i-i rasgueado for about ten minutes. Everybody in the room paid very close attention, and everybody was doing rasgueados on their leg as they watched and listened.
After the student showed she had picked up part of what Grisha said, she asked about using the thumb. Grisha described and demonstrated p-m-p rasgueado, without using the word "abanico", but there wasn't as much time to work on that.
RNJ
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