joevidetto -> RE: Easiest-to-play "modern" pieces (or falsettas from them) (Feb. 21 2022 13:48:04)
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How comfortable are you with syncopated phrases? I think that’s key. Even simple older stuff can be modern sounding when the rhythms of the phrases are tweaked. A good musician can rewrite and tweak the style of almost any piece of music and come up with something equally good or better (I think)...not sure that I can do that yet. I sure would love to hear some examples of an original traditional style falseta tweaked to sound 'modern' and - at least to my ear, 'more interesting'. For me, with the modern stuff, I think besides the technical difficulty of executing the pieces, there is a lack of familiarity with the voicings, fingerings, and harmonies that add to the problem, making the falstas harder to commit to memory - definitely also due to lack of productive practice and focus - but also to not having 'worked up' to this properly. I'll just head this productive criticism off that I know will be coming my way as a result of my earlier text - of course I'm not opposed to practicing some of the 'right' traditional or accompaniment pieces that clearly lead to the familiarity I need to execute the modern stuff....but them, I think I'm describing an evolution that I have not committed the time to following. I would actually love to 'work backwards' with a series of pieces needed for mastery before tackling a modern piece (even if I only learn a couple of the falsetas from each). For example - a couple of pieces I've been analyzing and looking at voicings and fingerings are from Leiva's PDL Sirocco book - my favorites - the tanguillos Casilda and the alegrias La Barossa, and the rumba Cana de Azucar. Besides the syncopation, the other things I mentioned are also not familiar to me - e.g. voicings, fingerings, and harmonies. Curious if anyone has worked up to these pieces by tackling other particular pieces that prepared them. To put all this in perspective - I'm attracted to and trying to play pieces that are clearly beyond me, but I'm unaware of the pieces that would prepare me to tackle these. PDL's stuff is like going from crawling to poll-volting. Perhaps the only way to get there is to put the time into the traditional flamenco, accompaniment, etc....that's why there are "hobbyists" and "professionals".
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