NormanKliman -> RE: Lebrijano/Cepero Bulerias (Jan. 11 2009 22:29:00)
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(By the way, do you have all this stuff in our head available for instant recall, or do have to sit and mull it over for a bit!?) I just make it up as I go along, ha-ha! It's no big deal, really. Question of paying attention to the letras, sometimes I go back to check and realize that I've goofed, and it's often a question of coincidence, of recordings that have stuck in your head for one reason or another. For example, I listened to the Cancanilla recording a lot over a period of a few weeks just because it was what we had in the car. When Cancanilla sings that letra, the guitarist Antonio Arenas lets loose with some kind of exclamation, sounding surprised and impressed. That drew my attention to it, because, otherwise, it's not much of a cante, although the letra fits the cante nicely. In any case, a very large amount of flamenco consists of versions of things that have been around for a while. That's part of why you so often hear people say "el cante ya está hecho" and things like that (cante has already been created). It doesn't mean that good singers don't invent completely new cantes, but, as Vicente Sordera said, "that's a hard card to play." quote:
That description sounds like standard horquilla to me. Is what Cepero’s doing here just a super-fast version? I'm not sure what you mean by horquilla. For me, that term means a kind of arpeggio with simultaneous index-middle or middle-ring strokes. What Cepero does there is basic bulerías index-finger strumming, but thumbing the basses and using the index for every other note, rather than just the off-beat upstrokes (on the "ands"). Uh, that explanation is a little too obvious, so I think I'm not understanding what you mean. quote:
In the Lebrijano vid it sounds like he’s saying “bonito”? In the Rito vid it the first thing he says sounds like “doce” but with the accent on the second syllable (no comprendo), and later on it sounds like he said “Sevilla”? I noticed that, too. I don't know, "Juanito"? For Camarón, it's probably "José" but lisping the s. I'll go back and have a listen to both, but that's probably what he's saying.
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