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Beginners Challenge - Bulerias Winter 2010
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cathulu
Posts: 950
Joined: Dec. 15 2006
From: Vancouver, Canukistan
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Beginners Challenge - Bulerias Winte...
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OK, so we have sufficient interest! This is the official thread. Please post on this thread if you have any questions or comments. Apologies this has taken me so long to get to it. I want to encourage all beginners to give this a go. You never know if there is going to be another beginner's challenge anytime soon... I fear there will be an eventual ennui that will develop if it has not done so a bit already and challenges may go on hiatus for a while until enthusiasm builds up again. Having said that, if you are new to the forum, you should make at least 10 posts and be a member of the forum for at least 1 month before you sign-on . If you have been a long time lurker, than we can waive the posting requirement. Basically the idea is that POACHING the challenge from people who are not interested in flamenco or don't care to be a member of the forum is not fair on the judges time and everyone else. There has been some controversy regarding challenges, I would like this one to be clean and everyone respects everyones effort and the judging results should be considered sancrosant, immutable and faultless. How do you know if you are a beginner? I suggest that this should take you about a month to get under your fingers, and then a month to fine tune enough to record it to your satisfaction. This is based on a realistic practice scenario for people with real jobs and a real life! Basically you will know if you are a beginner or not by listening to the other challenges and gauging your own skills and abilities from there. If we get too many subscribers to this challenge, we may opt to split the judging to keep the judges work to a realistic level, even though that may have some impact on the results. Future subscriptions should determine this course of action. Rules - The beginners challenge is Ron's bulerias falseta in the missionary position: http://www.foroflamenco.com/tm.asp?m=116695&p=1&tmode=1&smode=1 - All entries must be submitted by Monday February 1 - 09:00 London / GMT time. That is the 24 hour clock - i.e. 9:00AM. Ron has kindly volunteered to receive and upload the entries. Each participant will get a PM or email from Ron indicating where to send their submission. - Your entry will be coded by a city name of your choosing. That will keep everyone anonymous. Don't use your home town goes without saying... - You must use a compas track or metronome to keep time and this must be audible in your recording. - Introduction to Ron's falseta is with a few compases - a maximum of 5. The number you select and compas choice is your own. - Outro is also a few compases - no more than 5. Ditto above. Participants in order of apperance to date (to be updated as more participants come on) Cathulu Minordjango - Out Louis_B Ailsa - Out Gummy rObbie - Out fevictor Ashod Mike_Kinney - Out Veet bhandras Isnyman Judges Confirmed to Date in order of appearance: Jimi Hendrix Edguerin at_leo_87 (Anthony) gj Montgomery MrMagenta Doitsujin Pimiento Ricardo ToddK Jason (tentative due to his shedule) Interested judges are welcome to subscribe at any time, please advise at your leisure. Anyone can be a judge except for a competitor. A real push to get judges will be made after New Years. Judges can post results to the challenge entries as they get to them. Judging will close within one week of the entry of the challenges - closing date to be confirmed closer to the close of the challenge. Judges should listen and judge independently without reviewing other judges responses, but that is left to the judges honour and discretion. Judging should be on the old saws: Compas aka Timing max 10 points Technique max 10 points Aire max 10 points Total = 30 points Judging will close on Thursday February 4 - 24:00 London / GMT time. That should give 3 full days to review the entries and provide scores and close things up in a timely fashion. Resources Many thanks to Anthony and Anders! tabs here http://www.foroflamenco.com/tm.asp?m=119033&appid=3&p=&mpage=1&key=&tmode=&smode=&s=#119036 As requested, here you have the loop: http://www.foroflamenco.com/tm.asp?m=119278&p=1&tmode=1&smode=1 I have uploaded some videos of me (Anders) playing the challenge falseta with a metronome and with a loop: http://www.foroflamenco.com/tm.asp?m=119564&p=1&tmode=1&smode=1 Prizes First prize will win Ricardo's CD 3 Months Lessons on flamenco-lessons.com Thanks to everyone in advance for volunteering their time and effort on this challenge!
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Date Nov. 7 2009 15:04:33
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cathulu
Posts: 950
Joined: Dec. 15 2006
From: Vancouver, Canukistan
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RE: Beginners Challenge - Bulerias W... (in reply to cathulu)
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Here is Ron's comments from the earlier thread, which might be helpful and people should keep in the back of their mind. Thanks very much to Anthony for the resources, they are beyond the call of duty! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Folks, If you really want to use that falseta, personally I would begin with a few compas cycles of basic Jerez style strumming since the falseta is already a sort of "intro" anyway. (Listen to Orson's version and also Henrik's Jerezana opening chords.) Everybody could just choose their own strumming pattern intro, which would add more interest to the challenge, since you would have to do a bit of research and listening. Oh...best way to pick it up is to practise the slow version as solidly and carefully as you can. Keep practising at this speed and tapping your foot, so the rhythm of the falseta really sinks in. After that it is fairly easy to speed it up to anything you want. (Oh..you could maybe use "Flamenco Master" at first, just to confirm to yourself which beats the salient notes are landing on if you are unsure.) The F# note on the low E string is on the 12 beat. That's the important one and the one you should be aiming at. The first few notes are just "lead in" ones. I actually play it a bit too fast, but that's because I was really getting annoyed with the recording program keeping freezing up and I just wanted to get it over with before it decided to hang up again ....it would probably sound better played a bit slower IMO. Personally, I wouldn't over complicate the challenge by adding more falsetas, since the whole point of the exercise is to become more confident about Bulerias rhythm and feeling how a falseta fits in to the compás. For learning, simple is always better. You learn much more IMO. cheers, Ron
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