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n85ae -> Compas Revelation (Sep. 25 2007 15:43:50)
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Since I'm learning via, book, and forum, and have no time outside work
for getting a teacher, maybe this is something that took me a while to
grasp. Anyway - Hope this helps somebody learning in similar fashion.
A long time ago, on the forum Ricardo said go off, and work on basics.
That there was a youtube vid about the movements that made up bulerias,
that this was the real deal, and from it you could learn the basics.
Well I took this to heart, and have been working like mad doing just that.
After all this time, and learning Graf-Martinez, Manuel Granados stuff, Tom's
handbooks, etc. I've mostly been learning chunks of compas, 12 beats at a
time, simple falseta's, and some entire bigger pieces in tab.
Saturday night, I was looking at the tab, and it occured to me that these
right hand patterns could be learned as 2-3 beat fragments. Rather than
just as 12 beat chunks ... Maybe a bunch of you are out there, thinking ok
of course, so what's new. Well to me it was like a revelation.
I took this approach on a tab I was learning, it was really giving me a hard
time because a chord change from Bb to Amaj happened on upstroke, golpe,
upstroke with the first upstroke on A, then the second on Bb. So I divided it
into two little fragment and learned them individually, the first was "down/up,
up, up" and the second was "golpe/up, up". I started looking over some other
compas examples, and pattern 1 for example is very common and is used
on beats 12,1,2 or 3,4,5 or 6,7,8 etc. frequently. So now I have two little
patterns that are learned. If I learn a half dozen little patterns like this how
many things can I assemble from them ... A lot. PLUS if they are three beat
patterns I could play "pattern 1, pattern 1, pattern 2, woody woodpecker"
and I know exactly where I am! Right back on beat 12 again.
Anyway, that really woke me up, and all of a sudden a lot of stuff became a
bunch easier to play in just 1 day and a new way of looking at the same old
stuff.
Jeff
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