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but you can bet that chuscales would have an easier time writing music if he could actually you know, write it down.

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ORIGINAL: chester

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ORIGINAL: estebanana

Chuscales for example said he does not really read notation or claim to know theory in a way he can explain it in terms of counterpoint or the names of stacked up chords. But you'll not find many guitar players who understand the fingerboard and how to construct music better then he does.

I think Ricardo is correct and I sleep tonight awaiting a nightmare in which Chusco plays without notation and goes totally off the reservation of theory.

Nino Ricardo was supposed to have been the same way. It was observed by a few students that you could place one of his fingers anywhere on the fingerboard and call out a palo and he would play a falseta off that note in the palo called. Or was it invent a whole new falseta? Either way kind of mind blowing.

Funny that you should mention chuscales. I distinctly remember taking a lesson with jason mcguire where he was extolling the virtues of knowing theory for allowing him to play a buleria on any key while "guys like chuscales" can't understand how he does it.

I'm not saying that one needs to formally know music theory in order to create good music, especially for a harmonically simple genre like flamenco, but you can bet that chuscales would have an easier time writing music if he could actually you know, write it down.

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why should copyrights go to singers who just sang and did not compose folk songs?!

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so we are all surrounded by composers, i.e., people who can't learn to sing a song correctly