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RE: How old am I here on the foro?
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xirdneH_imiJ
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Joined: Dec. 2 2006
From: Budapest, now in Southampton
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RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to aleksi)
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we're in the same boat, Aleksi, i'm 29, 30 in august...my 20s are almost gone... my love with flamenco came too late...in fact, my love with guitar came too late, i would've loved to have started earlier, but i only picked the guitar up when i was about 17...i had been listening to guns n' roses before, but it was jimi hendrix's hey joe that convinced me i want to do this...i got a classical guitar and took lessons for half a year, i didn't find it very useful so i stopped, had my mom buy me a red strat then i started playing jimi's stuff, led zeppelin, pink floyd...i played 8 hours a day then!...then in my early 20s i stopped completely, i very rarely picked the guitar up...i was aware of the guitar trio then and loved that stuff, but one day i got some extra cash and wanting to explore this kind of music more, i bought some cds of paco de lucía and al di meola...i really wanted to get into jazz, but all the theory behind it made me shy away...then i stopped again and it had to be a trip to granada and losing my life's love there to pick the guitar up again and start to get into flamenco...that was about 2005, i bought my first flamenco guitar for my birthday in 2006, that's when i started to take it really seriously...i went to accompany dancers and have been doing that since...recently i was invited to join in to the only serious flamenco "band" here and will have our first gig next friday...i'm going to open with a solo bulería, i'm nervous! but being recognised feels good, i love flamenco, it's given me so much and want to give something back to it... hopefully next year i'll get the chance to visit jerez, a friend of mine (dancer) lives there and it'd be a great opportunity to learn some more...
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Date Mar. 24 2009 8:25:11
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newstringjunkie
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RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to xirdneH_imiJ)
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Nice thread! I'll be 35 next week. Until about 30 I was quite a mess, depressed and scared of everything and everyone, thank goodness that is in the past! The first time I heard flamenco (or -ish, dunno) was on the radio. I was 13/14 years old and I quickly wrote down the name of the artist and the name of the album. I was living in a rather small town then and the local recordshop had no idea what I was talking about when I asked them for Taye - El Gitano Punky. Not so many years ago I remembered this happening and started Googling: Teye, there he was! At that time I had parents induced piano lessons, and later I took singing lessons because I wanted to become an opera diva. Too bad I hated my voice and it was no fun singing just constant warfare against myself. About 3 years ago I suddenly decided to start with classical guitar, I thought it might be a good place to start, but soon I found it more of the same, I wanted to play more percussive and near ugly sounding harsh playing instead of lullaby-y stuff (this is put a bit extreme for, eh, clarity?) Anyway I'm almost one year busy learning flamenco guitar and I find it very challening but also very rewarding and a lot of fun to play. I have a hard time practicing, I like to play the things I already "know" and tend to postpone the True Studying, not good, but my teacher is strict and serious so I feel pushed in a good way. Back to the topic of age, it is a weird thing. What is this saying, youth is wasted on the young? I can't believe I'm getting more and more happy and excited about life/living with the same speed I'm going towards the end, it's hyper ironic.
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Date Apr. 12 2009 16:29:15
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aleksi
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From: Helsinki, Finland
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RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to xirdneH_imiJ)
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hanks for asking :) i played only two pieces, the bulería which i want to record to upload here and a tangos which is based on a piece accompanied by vicento amigo for el pele...as it was third ever performance for an audience i can honestly say the bulería i played like i had never played before, to my standards it was a catastrophy :)...but others said it was fine although i think everyone could hear it that i was nervous (which is strange because i normally am nervous before, not during)...the tangos was great, i said oh man i can play and i'm not going to let my nerves ruin the night, so i picked my act together and it felt great, although the dancers ran through the escobilla, it was so fast i couldn't believe it...overall it was a great experience as it showed i really need to get on stage more before i can start to approach the level i'm capable of without an audience...strange though as all the flamencos here have heard me play, accompanied/played with nearly all of them so why should i feel nervous in front of people who are just there for the music and know little about flamenco? Nice to hear about your experience. The nervousness is a strange thing, its nasty, I also need to learn how to "pic my act to gether" on critical times. Hope you get more gigs. Today was the first time I didnt blush when I was accompanying dance. I was cool, and it felt good. I dont even know why I did blush the previous times, its just funny.
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