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Ricardo -> RE: Moraito (Nov. 29 2006 5:50:05)
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Can you write what you think it is(Ricardo)
OK. Assuming I agree with your first assesment 1,2, 4,5 7,8, 10,11. The very first thing you see in the video of his foot tapping, going with his seco scratching rhythm (no chord at first, just apagado atapao, whatever you want to call it). Then great, he does that tapping style, and later only when he plays compas or basic strumming between falsetas. That is like when a drummer hits a groove and does some funky stuff with the kick drum. He feels the same internal beat, but has the foot doing the old "al golpe" accents. The way I feel that foot is like this in 3/4 time, quarter note equals 115 bpm, "&2, 3&, &2,3&". Meaning the foot does not go space-tap-tap-space-tap-tap, as equal feelings. There is a stress internal like space-tap-TAP-space-TAP-tap space tap TAP space TAP tap. Or in your counting style "(12)one TWO (3) FOUR five (6) seven EIGHT (9) TEN eleven. ETC.
Of course the accented numbers might not sound like or look like a louder or stronger foot tap, I am just using that to describe the internal feeling.
Then he starts the falseta and switches to just feeling the basic beat. 3/4 time, his foot is on 1,2, and 3 of a 3/4 at 115bpm. YOU got crossed somehow by describing his tap as 1,3,5,7, etc. It would be, based on your counting system, 12,2,4,6,8,10. You lost a beat somewhere. Then you kept that logic and thought he was switching to 12, 1, 3,4, etc, but you were crossed.
Typically, the switch of the foot tap feel happens on count 10, in your system. Meaning he is tapping 12,2,4,6,8,, then 10,11, 1,2,4,5, etc. The closing beat is the spring for the foot change gears, usually. That can happen on count 4 too, because there is no 12 in bulerias actually. It is just like a bar of 3/4 where the quarter note is 115 bpm, (NOT 230 bpm), and the down beat is 1, the closing beat is 3. The foot and the music so clearly go together to me. It is not a random choice. The foot is either 1,2,3 or &2 3&, depending on what he is playing. PDL does the same kind of thing. Tomatito too.
Some folks tap only 12,3,6,9, which to me is the equivalant bpm for the quarter note of 3/4, but with a 6/8 feel. The foot being 1, and 4 of the 6/8 measure. You often see the compas of Guajiras written this way, alternating 3/4 and 6/8. To me, the two feels can overlap in bulerias. BUT the feeling of the foot going in 6/8 like this "2,3, 5,6" where the heavy beat is the space, is very different than the feeling of &2 3&, of a 3/4. That difference is important for bulerias.
Ricardo
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