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Ricardo -> RE: At wat speed to play soleares (Oct. 3 2020 19:03:49)
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ORIGINAL: kitarist
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I have had to play super uncomfortably slow for some dancers. (50 bpm or less? Maybe 40 actually)
Where the 'beat' in 'bpm' is such that there are 12 in a compas? Yikes!
Yes, well the rehearsal involved a llamada that was about 4 compases long. I was feeling 16th notes as my foot tap and rolling super fast rasgueados and stopping on the accents, so my foot was preventing rushing (I realize now it was slower than 40 actually). The singer and auxiliary dancers were doing palmas. Every time the palmeros rushed the tempo and were not with me (and her the dancer) she stopped us and we had to start at the beginning. It was like pulling teeth.
It took 3hours to get through that llamada with no mistake.
For folks reading, bpm means beats per minute. Most often we define a beat as what you tap your foot to, or a quarter note. For solea that means counts 123456789 10 11 12. Each of those falls on the click of the metronome, so 12 clicks per cycle. Most traditional metronomes run 40 to about 200. 60 is the same as one second. So two beats in a second is 120, a comfortable medium tempo we can all feel by looking at a clock. What happens to fast songs such as bulerias that go above 200, we might want to feel half the speed as the beat... tap my foot at 100bpm even though the song tempo is 200. One could say I’m now tapping my foot to the half note. So in solea por buleria some players are feeling a fast beat (Chicuelo for example) and others feel a slower beat (paco likes a slower foot tap). In the end, the counting you learn “uno Dos tres quatro” etc, cuts through that ambiguity and holds the same meaning regardless of tempo and beat feeling.
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