szvarga -> RE: After SEVERAL MONTHS of study.... (Jun. 23 2019 8:09:43)
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Besides the previous posts about her attitude, I see some things a bit more tangible musically. For me, the magic of flamenco music is lies in technically simple melodies, even more simple harmonizations, BUT with amazingly creative ornamentations, and rhythmic creativity in a level hardly compares anything in western music. And with that melodic and harmonic simplicity, ornamental and rhythmic attitude, flamenco can tell very intense and deep stories. As I see, she does just the opposite. Playing no melodies at all, just put notes of phrygian mode one after another, without any melodic idea. She tries to make harmonization technically interesting somehow. Therefore, there is no space to ornament anything, or to make any rhythmic variations. And the final result is some music without telling anything. Nor intense, or deep, but nothing to tell at all. The only thing she can tell me is: "I can use phrygian mode, I can make music in 12/4, I can play 'flamencoish' phrases, but I have nothing on earth to tell which requires that phrases, or 12/4, or phrygian mode." Sz
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