Paleto -> RE: Giant Steps (Apr. 24 2007 3:43:47)
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I used to wonder those things just like you Paleto, but there is only one thing that you need to know: In order to succeed in becoming a flamenco guitarist you must PRACTICE, PRACTICE and more PRACTICE. No matter what your questions might be, that's what you must do. First and foremost let me say thanks for taking the time to think about this. I was really hoping for specifics, not vague statements. Practice, practice, practice is useless unless what is being practiced is useful. We have had some discussion of technique studies versus learning technique through repertoire for example, but in order for the discussion to be useful, we have to specify how and what to practice (and also what has been found to be a waste of time). As an example, I practice rasgueados as follows: 1) Marote's rasgueado - p, m, p (up, down, down) - in triplets, quadruplets and sextuplets (the beat falling on the first stroke) in solea and alegrias, beats 1 - 9 are accented, ending with a remate on 10, 11, 12. I sometimes start with m going down, p down, then p up. Then I'll start with p down, p up and then m down. I try to build the volume slowly, so 7, 8 and 9 are the loudest. 2) I take other rasgueado patterns and do the same, p, a, i, or El Nani's rasgueado p, a, i, p (p up, a, down, i down, p down) and others. 3) Then I try to switch (mid stream) from one rasgueado to another all in compas without any seam between them, this doing triplets, quadruplets and sextuplets. This is the kind of useful practice/teaching information I was hoping to encourage everyone to share. Another example, I take arpeggios (of many kinds see Giuliani's 120 right hand studies for example, or those in Carlos Barbosa-Limas book below) and play them in compas, ending in remate, just to know where they are at any moment in common flamenco keys.CBL Arpeggios - Mel Bay I do have to change the arpeggios a little to fit in compas, but they really train both the right hand and the left really well, at the same time, I learn to improvise (or the basis for it) all in compas. I do this all over the neck, say up to 13th fret. This is a more advanced way of learning these things, but they have been very fruitful for improvising. I suppose it takes more time to contribute something of substance but it's worth it, I think. -Anthony -Anthony
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