trivium91 -> RE: Bulerias Upstrokes (Jan. 1 2023 18:31:36)
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ORIGINAL: trivium91 Hey Guys, aside from this being confusing, primarily because the golpes do not fall on the accents. That being said, I noticed a pattern that generally the upstrokes fall on the accents, though this does not seem to be a rule. When I hear a Bulerias falsetta, I learn but now I’m really struggling to break it down to fit in the compass. Basically my micro timing is off with the upstrokes and what not. What are the rules to Bulerias? How do you apply the accents to the falsettas? As a teacher I make two analogies for understanding rhythm. First of all, buleria has tons of compas patterns, and you need to learn many but treat each one as a separate entity and master each one at tempo with a metronome before moving on or connecting it to another. Other flamenco forms can get away with one or two basic patterns you can repeat, but buleria gets boring quickly with only one or two. And yes some of these patterns will have odd mixes of up and down strokes, glopes, rasgueados etc. So try to focus and learn each pattern note for note exact. So here comes the analogy with the note for note thing. First of all, depending on how you think of beats and counts versus subdivisions, the basic math is 2. You will have on beats and off beats. And you must be aware of where either one is relative to what you are actually physically doing. So imagine your notes or strums or golpe etc, are a ball on a roulette wheel...on beats are black and up beats are red slots, and the ball MUST fall into one of the two slots no matter what. And the colors are evenly spaced. So sometimes you are only dealing with reds, meaning contra Tiempo...and it is just as even as the black slots. But to change from one slot color to another you need an odd number, move one space, or three, or 5 etc. If you have even spaces you end up on the same color. Also, pauses or spaces might occur and you have to allow a full slot to float by before sticking the ball into the correct slot. Metronome really really helps teach this (not a flamenco metronome a basic click). Also becoming aware of tempo ranges is important. So your up stroke could be in black or red spots, it doesn't matter, but they are specifically numbered and you need to adhere to the math concept in order to feel the time correctly. And you actually don't want to count at first, but be aware what is on the beat and what is off and stick it like glue. The ball does not have the luxury to land anywhere other than red or black. The other analogy is a bouncing basket ball, you have to keep dribbling it and there are only two positions again, the up position that hits your hand, and the down position on the ground. Again no matter what your technique or musical note or space that is happening, it has to hit one of the two positions in order to maintain the feeling. So sometimes you are hitting only the contra again, it is the evenly timed up portion of the ball movement that hits the hand...and it is easy to maintain so long as you understand where the ground is relative to that. About accents....these things have no meaning and can confuse you because they are emergent properties of controlling the elements I just described. Again, if you are playing the pattern as it should be played, including DYNAMICS while keeping the bouncing ball or roulette wheel each stroke or note or space, the accents naturally appear. So don't worry about them, keep your eye on the ball and you will be good. Much later, after realizing you can keep the ball in play without thinking about it, you can switch off into auto mode, and start to focus attention on specific accents to taste. Again, accents are only louder relative dynamics regardless what slot they happen to fall into. So with the metronome it’s best to not use beat groupings? Just use a simple single click to keep the beat? Also if i understand correctly, what you are saying is that the upstrokes will always fall on either an even or odd numbered beat (red or black), but always the same for that particular rhythm? So if i use the upstroke as reference, it will either fall on an odd or even numbered beat, but whichever it falls on it will be the same for that rhythm?. Or based on what you’re saying, i can use a golpe as reference to which beat im on aswell? I’ve been using the compass app to try to understand this, then basically using the upstroke to determine where I am in the compass. is this a bad idea?
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