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Ricardo -> RE: Modern Method Books (Apr. 19 2016 0:14:54)
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ORIGINAL: Rob MacKillop
OK, so no one uses books anymore. That's progress [:)]
The more stuck beginners have been sitting at home with their books since the start, the working pros never opened any book about flamenco guitar in most cases. I must admit I dont' see a whole lot of value except at the very initial stage, and even then there needs to be a teacher to guide toward improvisation/arranging and UTILIZING the material in functioning context. However, the academic side of me also simply enjoys "books" to some extent, about music.
I notice the other thread about methods throughout history and it seems you are focused about "Modern" flamenco here, or at least books from the modern era. Keep in mind there is not really, despite popular miss conceptions, a special method for modern style flamenco vs the old school. It's the same. What we have are the specific transcriptions which contain all the info needed. I prescribe to the work of Alain Faucher, new or old players, and the video/book series by Encuentro. Both of these approaches are "player specific", but at the high level that is what it comes down to. If I were to generalize about technique, the players in the series that are more similar to PDL/Sanlucar/ ie coming from Niño Ricardo school, I would stick guys like Nunez, Tomatito, M. Franco, Chicuelo, Riqueni, from the series Encuentro together. The other players tend to have a unique or personal take on techniques, though have equally advanced music:Moraito, Habichuela, Merengue de Cordoba, etc. Again these are generalizations. Nuñez is the unique teacher of the series that separated his own compositions, the modern style music, from what he considers the more traditional repertoire.
From there you have the score books of well known albums that can always be taken as a treatise or "method" of a particular style and it's time, not unlike the way Bach suites or Beethoven sonatas are used in classical music education world. I know what most students are looking for is "pieces of graduating difficulty" with flamenco guitar methods, but the world of flamenco as a discipline is not really so neatly packaged. IMO.
Ricardo
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