John O. -> RE: "He's more flamenco than me!" (Sep. 7 2007 10:20:23)
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Yeah, there are a couple of people I know who do nothing but talk sh*t. I'm positive they do the same about me when I'm not around. Funny thing is, the sh*t-talkers don't get that everybody knows they're sh*t-talkers. Now, I'm not the smartest guy I know, but that does take quite a lot more ignorance than even I have [:D] One thing I do understand is all the hard work that goes into playing and the urge to show people how good I am. Still, to go as far as one guitarist I heard about who screamed at a local group here in the area "Crap! It's all crap, what you're doing! You suck!" At least he was open [:)] Took it a bit overboard, though... quote:
better to be wrong on your terms then to be right on some terms you dont even fully understand but seems like the more "flamenco" thing to do I love that quote:
i go insaine if i dont say something, and u can spend about 10 minutes on what is the most polite way to say it, but by then u cant remember where it was that they did go out During a show of course best to keep quiet, usually they know after the fact anyways. During rehearsal I never follow out of compás, though... The instructor at the dance school I'm at encourages lots of falsetas to inspire the dancers. I needed to first get a feeling for what works at all for general technique practise and what not, certain syncopations and melodies sound cool but confuse the dancers. A lot of falsetas will follow the 3,6,8,10,12 in the rhythm but have interesting melodies, sometimes when I play one the first time I see the instructors eyes fix on me through the mirror until I come out again and she makes a face like "Ah, okay"... I'm still slowly but surely working towards the goal of living from music with a part-time job. This year I'll be making the transition. It's tough keeping up technique and repertoire when 10 hours of my day are spent for my office job. I'm 30 and not getting any younger. For me it has more to do with being happy doing what I do than being "The Best", all talk of who's good or not, who said what about whom etc. are so meaningless it just makes me shrug. I just wanna play as often as possible, that's all [:)]
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