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mark indigo -> RE: The problem with Bulerias (Aug. 31 2008 13:21:16)
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the main accents on 12, 3, 6, 8, 10 etc.
This IMO is the easy part
hehe, it's like, just when you think you're getting somewhere and you "get" this weird rhythm, then the trouble really starts!
i had bulerias explained to me once as having an"outer" and an "inner" rhythm, the "outer" rhythm being the 12,3,6,8,10, from solea, and the inner rhythm being the 1,2, 4,5, 7,8, 10,11, which this guy also called the "pulse", and which i didn't really get at the time.... is that what you're getting at, the cruciality of that "inner" rhythm?
it was sometime after this that the water got deeper still when i got tangled up in "odd" sixes, and the whole "12" idea had to go out the window.... only it kept coming back in again just to confuse things!
I think the 1,2, 4,5, is actually key in moving out of being fixed in "12" and having the flexibility of "12" or "6", as it works as a pulse in either.
i think the "trouble" with bulerias is that it's not "a" rhythm, but a polyrhythm.... i don't know enough about rhythm to justify that or say if technically it's a true polyrhythm, but it's definitely more complex than just one single albeit strange rhythm with weird accents, as you point out.
Not sure if i fully understand your post ron (particularly this bit: quote:
within a fraction of the beat on EVERY note or a few milliseconds when playing fairly advanced falestas where the accent hops between 2's and 3's , hope i read it right.
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