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Restaurant/Lounge Gig... What to play?
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Mark2
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Joined: Jul. 12 2004
From: San Francisco
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RE: Restaurant/Lounge Gig... What to... (in reply to Alonte)
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Just play the forms-just a solea with a few falsetas could take 10 minutes if you wanted it to. Tangos, tientos, bulerias, tangos in e, in b, por medio, por arriba, alegrias, sig, good rhythm and a few falsetas and your out of there with the dough. I played for classes for years and one teacher would start witrh solea por bulerias for about ten minutes. I'd make simple variations and falsetas to keep from going crazy. If you decide to keep playing solo gigs, you'll develop a more structured set of music, with some set pieces. If not , a guy who can play for singing and dance can do a 30 minute gig without breaking a sweat. Ideally, for a gig like that, you should play some recognizable classical tunes, know malaguena(cause someone will request it) Recuerdos, romance, stuff like that. But you can totally fake that gig playing what you already know. Being really good at that type of gig, however, requires that you please the public. They will not know Vicente or Pacos material, but they will know all the spanishy stuff that is popular. quote:
ORIGINAL: Alonte Tricky situation. There really is no flamenco in my area so we are going to try to introduce it so to see how the community respond to it. My experience is mostly private juergas/jondo with singers and and dancers and I lack solo material. So just play and doodle as if Im playing with dancers? Lots of ragueo with a few chords marking compas? Shoot i dont know any gypsy kings and other rumba like materials ugggh.
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