Mark2 -> RE: Vicente Amigo's music (Jan. 19 2015 17:37:24)
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I'll try to focus on your specific questions. Without flamenco technique, what you can glean from Vicente are his chord inversions, his melodic ideas, and his chord progressions. Getting his sound would require years of study in all flamenco techniques, and even then, it's not likely. You have to understand he's not exactly an average flamenco guitarist. As to the chord voicings and progressions, you should be able to pick those things up by ear, and if not there are tabs on the internet, some free and some not. Keep in mind that the use of the capo will possibly fool you as far as keys and chord shapes, as will the occasional altered tuning. You say your technique is limited to fairly simple stuff, and that is also unfortunate, because Vicente's technique is very developed. Even players who have learned his material and have excellent flamenco technique somehow fail to sound like him. As I wrote above, you can get his chord voicings and his progressions without flamenco technique. You can absorb his general feeling and melodic ideas, but beyond that, you need to be a flamenco guitarist to take more than that IMO. Hopefully, that will be enough for you though. quote:
ORIGINAL: rodogtr Hello everybody. I'm Rudy, 29, Italian born but living in London. I've been playing guitar for 5-6 years. I started with classical but then focused more on a simple and spontaneous personal fingerstyle. I can't do anything too fancy technically speaking since I always focused more on songwriting, improvisation and composition... a bit less on "performance". I've always been fascinated by flamenco though but particularly on the modern style of Vicente Amigo. I like that kind of melodic, deep style he plays. I can't find a lot of material about him, his technique, ecc. Would anybody be so kind and suggest me a sort of a roadmap to learn a bit of what he does so maybe I can incorporate his ideas in my music? Do you guys think it would be interesting to start learning proper techniques like rasgueo, alzapua, ecc in a separate setting and then maybe try and pick his songs by ear? Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated my best to all
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