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Ricardo -> RE: SOLEA ACCOMPANIMENT CHALLENGE!!!!!! (Oct. 4 2014 15:29:17)
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The vast majority of baile these days has almost zero room for true improvisation of any kind, so in theory the basis of this challenge is just fine. I have in fact been hired on occasion to simply record what I play for a specific choreography so that the dancer can just dance to my playing via Ipod or CD at low paying gigs or exhibitions or classes that I couldn't attend myself. Indeed I am bent on inventing a 'hologram' of myself with specific choreographies for rent, so that I might be projected and "perform" at gigs when I am double booked. ([8D]).
Anyway, the problem with the challenge as it lies here is you don't have a specific choreography. That means you can only do a standard bare bones blue print type of accompaniment, which I have to admit as something to listen to would be quite boring or tedious for listeners. (lot of chord strumming going nowhere as it is just providing the base framework). The shortest length of time I can envision for a "short" but complete solea dance will be 7-10 minutes. I once did a 5 minute rehearsal for a 25 minute single dance performance of solea. The reason it worked like that is because in rehearsal we simply talked about the structure and then I demonstrated a few falsetas for the different section, of which she picked two she wanted me to use. Another example was that video of Fanny Ara dancing solea....the only thing we practiced (at sound check) was the opening llamada that had a stop. The rest was evolved on stage live. But WITHOUT the dancer there, try to imagine if we just recorded the guitar part of that 15 minute dance. [&:]
Anyway, some other points coming up in this thread regarding the cante accompaniment....well, hello guys we already have that 25 page cante accompaniment practice thread that contains tons of examples of solea minus guitar plus various members versions. Lot of work went into that so please take a look there at the solea stuff before arguing about using Herrero tracks or palmas/create your own audacity track etc...
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