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Ricardo -> RE: ‘Easiest’ Paco de Lucia pieces. (Feb. 14 2021 20:57:01)
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ORIGINAL: rombsix
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but I totally get why Moraito avoided it deliberately and stuck with only singers.
And why is that? [:D]
The sophistication of learning lots of cante is attractive once you understand the models. The Dance world version of cante is very boxed in and orthodox...although a few good singers have learned to move around inside that restraint and keep it interesting. Even still the job of the guitar is simpler than for cante alone.
However on the flip side, having to memorize all the breaks and weird surprise things outside of the cante sections of the dance can get VERY cerebral. In the scope of an entire show of this stuff, where making an error means stop and do it again till it is right, it can be a huge headache. Especially for someone like Moraito that has an upgraded view of cante. He admitted few dancers were willing to adapt to the the cante (improvise choreography to whatever the singers whims, or random guitar falsetas that are executed) so he just rather avoid it. I admit in my field the easy going dancers can AND prefer to not work things out and it is a joy, but quite rare.
I want to take a moment to address something also. Historically many folks are happy to give their opinion about flamenco and talk about cante and how much they like it and that it is important etc...and picado is all guitarists care about and folks prefer simple flamenco like what is done for cante, simple chords and compas short falsetas etc. On paper it is a valid arguement, we don’t NEED tons of jazzy chords and fast scales to have examplary flamenco....but we have that cante thread and it is crickets. We have Henry on there and over the years you can watch him progress in that thread by diligent work.
He started off not even finding the beat or the correct pitch to put the capo and he is now doing Mairena crossed compas perfectly with only one small error. And the error is the thing....where are all those people that stress the importance of the cante and boast about it’s simplicity guitar wise, but he had to wait MONTHS before I pointed out he missed the C chord? I mean if people are so familiar with cante it should have been easy for people to jump on and commend the guy for all that he has accomplished but point out why he was in error right there, or better yet, grab their guitar and show how it is done. But crickets.
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