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Billyboy -> RE: Its a boy! (but already knew that..) (Feb. 25 2004 23:41:20)
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Congatulations John, Paco would be an original name maybe, Picado as a middle name?
My one to one lesson with the great Riqueni lasted approximately 30 seconds, the story was this, I went to the flamenco fest in Cordoba in 95, and enrolled on the Enrique de Melchor Cante accompanying class, the whole trip ended up a disaster. Enrique’s class was disorganised to say the least, it was supposed to be a class to learn accompanying, but the singer only turned up one day, and he spent most of that day in the bar, along with senior Melchor, the only time during the whole course he felt like teaching, he would just go through the odd falaseta from one of his albums, you know the type of lesson, pinky on fret 4, ring finger on fret 3, second string etc.In Spanish as well, can you believe the cheek, I only speak Lancashire “ey up”, “Ecky thump” etc, I choose the Melchor course over Riqueni thinking Cante is something I should learn, but as it happened, my course was jam packed, where Riqueni’s only had a handful of students. I used to play one of his Garrotin pieces, so I played him that, he kept stopping me every second note, saying your fingering is wrong, or words to that effect, as he doesn’t speak English, and I have no Spanish, Then to top it all, I got a liver infection, spent two day sweating in my hotel room. Cordoba was the hottest place on earth that day, 48 % or something. Then as the certificates were handed out at the end, I was missed out as there was someone else with the exact same name as mine, on the same course. I ended up getting the next flight back home which cost me about £250.
Cheers
Dave
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