Ricardo -> RE: The best way to go about compas (Nov. 3 2006 6:43:27)
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1) By compas, are you referring to rythm? 2) In playing with a metronome(since I haven't yet as my insructor is kinda against it at the moment and tells me I should play to my tapping foot), are you trying to play the "beats" of the metronome at, say,each quarter note of a 4/4 song for example? Compas is a flamenco specific meaning of the general term rhythm. Rhythm in general involves tempo or beat,meter (cycle of beats that repeats), subdivisions of the beat, style or feel or groove (accents and dynamics applied to subdivsions), and phrasing (number of metric units or bars, or even the length of a melody or rhythmic pattern). For example, a llamada or desplante could be looked at as flamenco "phrase". You cant really work on any of the stuff in that paragraph, if you don't understand the importance of maintaining a rock steady tempo or beat. The metronome helps you learn how, so you can focus on the other rhythmical things at the same time. If you are learning to tap your foot and play, good, but use the click of the metronome WITH your foot. I always think of the foot and the click as the beat. If you think of that as quarter note, great. But there are other ways to use the metronome. The click could be a dotted quarter, or dotted half note, like in a waltz. If you are learning to tap your foot in odd groups (like 123, 123, 12,12,12,), the metronome could be clicking eighth notes (your foot taps every 3 or every 2 clicks depending). But I think the easiest is to use your foot with the click and think of that as the beat always. But are you practicing stuff close to actuall tempo? Sometimes when practicing VERY slow, you can use both click and foot double time until you get faster. hope this helps. Ricardo
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