mark indigo -> RE: When do I get to play my falseta??? (Nov. 28 2008 2:18:56)
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Great dancers know what to do with falsetas.... etc. This is a great post Jason, thank you. It's a topic i think about quite a bit, and play around with a fair bit too. Not that i'm anywhere like at the same level as you or in the same league as you, but i have played for dancers/classes (sometimes for classes, sometimes performing with dancers who take classes, sometimes performing with dance teachers) on and off for 15 years or so. Although I started off trying to learn whole choreographies (most teachers seem stick to a set choreography for classes, at least at lower levels), I have ended up not trying to learn whole dances as set pieces, and just get to know that i can play this when they do that etc., and if they change things around by accident or design i can just go with it. Some of the dancers I have played with have improvised a bit, and lots have made mistakes such as changing the order of steps or leaving bits out, and I'm fine with that, it keeps it fresh and interesting, even if the basic structure is more or less set. When i mentioned this to the teacher of the class I'm going along to at the moment she said "we don't improvise, and we don't make mistakes". My heart sank.... Great link to the solea, thanks for that too, I saw/heard Manuel quite a bit over the years when he was living in London, any idea what he's up to these days? Just wondering what your take on this is, what to play if you don't have a singer? Most of the guitarists I have played with and/or learnt from have played the relevant accompanying chords (or version of), but I have spoke to guitarists who say if there isn't a singer just play falsetas over/in the letra section of a dance.... maybe it's a question of the level of the dancer? The guy who told me this was living and playing in Jerez at the time....
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