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Ricardo -> RE: please help with counting buleria rhythm (May 28 2024 16:17:04)
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I try to make folks understand that Compás is a “treatment” of some different melodies and song forms as you see fit to use with taste.
At the start of the video, he runs through the different counting methods to demonstrate how the same mechanical playing he is doing, can be used as a treatment for 3 different forms. The first was Soleá, the second a basic Waltz, and the third, the half time universal beat of 3/4 sometimes called “Abandolao” but we can insert this pattern and concept into things like Jaleo, Solea escobillas (footwork of the dancers at slower tempos), and “groovy” bulerias expressions such a as Jerez (modern not old school), Moron, Lebrija, etc.
It would be ideal to keep the first one as a “special case” where the Soleá phrase might enter the musical landscape for some reason. In otherwords, in a single performance, it might be ok you change the way you count (as it represents the way you think about a phrase) all of a sudden, to go better with the musical phrasing.
I highly recommend, since this concept seems elusive to you, that you learn to play rhythmic patterns as mechanical techniques that you can execute mindlessly with no counting, perfectly as they should be. If you don’t know, have someone check it, either a teacher or us. Get a large bag of these phrases down cold first, with metronome is ideal. Later, counting as a way to relate these mechanics to a bigger picture is much easier. But tying to learn this type of basic rhythm via counting is too hard at the start. You end up confused and hit or miss with the rhythm expression.
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