Brendan -> RE: After SEVERAL MONTHS of study.... (Jun. 27 2019 11:40:12)
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She is clear that she doesn’t take herself to have mastered the art, and the face she pulls at the end of the improvised noodle is quite telling. She is hopping about looking for ingredients from here and there to add to her musical larder. We may suspect that gathering the superficial features of many genres is going to end with her making herring and banana tacos on a bed of feta salad marinaded in Thai fish sauce, but that is her problem. For me, none of her noodles sound like the source material, it all sounds like the music on corporate training videos, but as always there are no cops to call. Richard is right, of course, there is no short-cut round the job of learning the language properly. Yo-yo Ma made a bluegrass record called Goat Rodeo, but he didn’t compose any of the music. He left that to native speakers, though he could easily have made superficially bluegrassy noises. Still though, there are a few general pointers that she could have understood. For e.g., flamenco melodies mostly go on journeys away from and back to the root note, and they move by small steps, rarely using any interval bigger than a major third. You quite often get the same little journey repeated and then a similar journey with a bit of extra interest that takes twice as long. Also, flamencos like semi-tone intervals in chords. While jazz voicings tend to smooth out dissonances, flamenco chords play them up, e.g. x-4-7-3-5-0 compared with say x-0-5-6-5-6. Her melodic ideas have large leaps and her chords don’t have the tight little clusters of notes that create the flamenco flavour. So my question was, are there more pointers like these which, while they do not substitute for a proper education, might have helped? Some of the ideas about her piano sound, for e.g.. it lacks the attack and fast fade that give flamenco its rhythmic snap. On the other hand, Chano Dominguez. Misspelling people’s names is very bad. Also, the digestion metaphor doesn’t say anything good about the product so I would have advised against it.
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