Florian -> RE: POLL: How important is playing traditional material to developing a good flamenco sound (Jul. 5 2007 12:14:25)
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Domenic [:D][:D] Romerito.. Interesting discussion, I dont really have a formulated locked down opinion and my tastes and ideas are allways changing anyway. Personally I think you should start with traditional not because its essential to your artist but because its, more straight foward, the timing , the modes etc. it creates for a good foundation for technique, sence of compas etc.. And I gues beeing educated in traditional and modern will not hurt you one bit. It makes the difference between "informed" modern playing and uninformed improvisation. But ...when i think traditional, i dont necesarely think Sabicas or Nino Ricardo. not because i dont like them but because i cant sitt trough the bad quality recordings expecially since i got about 400 beautifully recorded albums to listen to and digest. (also mibe I am rebeling a litlle, just because everybody tells me that i should be listening to them [:)] it agravates me that i am missing out on what everybody else seems to be getting or atlist pretending to be getting [8|])... there are many great guitarists who play great traditional stuff today or a nice balance of traditional eg. Moraito, Pepe y Juan Habichuela, Melchor etc, i listen to them for my traditional dose of education, and they listened and were influenced by Sabicas and Ricardo soo the way i see it I am not really missing out [:)] I just get it in a better quality recording [;)] and besides.. Nino and Sabicas are not necesarely anymore traditional or flamenco than Moraito and Habichuela... just older. when we listen to flamenco guitar,a bulerias for example we like to hear modern original stuff but we also like to hear the traditional strong base undercoats, so i think even if you dont necesarely play Sabicas or Ricardo's music, u can still find your element of traditional and combine it with whatever it is that you wanna do. I got another one of my wise sayings for this one [:D][:D][:D]... " you can only get to step 2 comfortably by stepping on step 1 first, if you jump straight to 2 you might get there but it will slow you down for step 3 as you need to stop and regain your balance " .... theres alot of truth in that ....[;)]
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