mark indigo -> RE: Rasguaedo continuous (Sep. 27 2008 3:19:37)
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Pinky, a, m, i... fast have read thru Flo's link to the other thread (which i missed out on by being down with a virus), loads of good advice there. i would ask why you want to do eami in a continuous loop? which of the players you idolise and listen to fervently use it that you want to emulate? it's a bit of a cheeky question[:D][:D][:D] 'cos anyone who is driving themselves nuts trying to master this peculiar variation on the rajeo theme has a copy of johnny martin lurking at home somewhere..! I'll 'fess up right away, i started out with the john martin book, and i could never get that eami continuous thing, and felt like a total no hoper.... ....until i started watching lots more vids of other players, and studying other methods and tabs of top players etc., and realised that NOONE uses this technique! so i didn't need to top myself for being a total loser after all![:)][:)][:)] it was a little while after this that i was watching a vid of Sabicas (i think it was the rito y geografia del toque) and lo and behold there was that weird one off jm technique right before my eyes. So my personal theory is that it was an idiosyncrasy of sabicas' technique that noone else picked up on, except our very own jm.... i think if you have eamii, amii, and abanico pai then you have the basics. That thing about stressing different fingers that Ron posted on the other thread, the way i worked on this was as follows: To practise eamii, use it to play a 6 stroke rajeo (all down strokes except for 2nd i upstroke - 5th group ends down, and 6th starts up); 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 2 3 4 5 6 3 2 3 4 5 6 4 2 3 4 5 6 5 2 3 4 5 6 e a m i i e , a m i i e a , m i i e a m , i i e a m i , i e a m i i , Each group begins with, and therefore is easy to stress, a different finger. Another way of doing it is to do 4 strokes with eamii; 1 2 3 4 2 2 3 4 3 2 3 4 4 2 3 4 5 2 3 4 e a m i , i e a m , i i e a , m i i e , a m i i , You can do the same thing with amii, play a 5 stroke with it; 1 2 3 4 5 2 2 3 4 5 3 2 3 4 5 4 2 3 4 5 a m i i a , m i i a m , i i a m i , i a m i i , and/or a 3 stroke; 1 2 3 2 2 3 3 2 3 4 2 3 a m i , i a m , i i a , m i i , Now if, like everyone has been saying (and they're darn right!), you gonna have to practise this for like years at a time, you better try and make this a bit more interesting, and as the goal is to play music, try to put it into compas. Solea, tweaked a bit, 3 beats on each chord, F (maj7), C, F (maj7), E ; and/or try A-, G, F, E 1 e + a , 2 e + a , 3 and, 4 e + a , 5 e + a , 6 and, e a m i i e a m i i e a m i i e a m i i 7 e + a , 8 e + a , 9 and, 10 e + a , 11 e + a , 12 and, e a m i i e a m i i e a m i i e a m i i (Beats 3, 6, 9, and 12 are just down up on and off the beat) You can do the same thing with amii, but you can do 5 strokes per beat and/or 6 strokes per beat. 5's; 1 2 3 & 4 5 6 & 7 8 9 & 10 11 12 & amiia, miiam, i i, amiia, miiam, i i, amiia, miiam, i i, amiia, miiam, i i And 6's - something like this is used by Manolo Sanlucar and Vicente Amigo etc. (for the first 6 beats anyway - it's an exercise, so don't worry about it![:)]); 1 2 3& 4 5 6& 7 8 9& 10 11 12& amiiam, iiamii i i, amiiam, iiamii i i, amiiam, iiamii i i, amiiam, iiamii, i i hope all that makes sense and is useful.
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