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RE: Time for a challenge?
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Ricardo
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 RE: Time for a challenge? (in reply to Guest)
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this weird arpegio technique the timing is like freaking me out a little....I read one of the posts about it sounding like 4's and indeed it does....But I know it can't really be in 4's... What it sounds like to me is the fours are in reality beats of six.
You should have been clued in early after I loaded the vid when some of the higher level players admitted the timing was challenging. Perhaps it is a bit out of your level, but I think you can get it. What is happening is 4 notes per click or beat (16th notes played as p,am,i,p...am,i,p,am.....i,p,am,i....repeat).
In solea you have 12 beats, if you think of solea as 4 measures of 3 beats then each accented tick of my metronome I play to is count 1 of each measure. (1,4,7,10 if you count to 12). 4 notes per click means 12 notes per measure. (4x3). Now the bass notes of the phrase do NOT come on the clicks, only the FIRST click. They are synchopated against the time and come every 3 16th notes. So you are accenting groups of 4 notes per beat in groups of 3. 3x4 again is 12. That is why it feels weird.
One trick is to forget the arps and only play the bass notes. Try to get a feel for the bass melody which is 4 notes against 3 ticks of the metronome. If you can do that then filling in the other 16th notes with arps is easy.
The second trick is to imagine that YOU are playing triplets as the phrase sounds. Triplets in 4 time, and the click is actually doing a synchopation against YOUR music. It sounds harder but is actually easier to do in this case because this falseta is pretty long. The only danger here is getting back into the normal solea time on the final E chord and after....there will be a tendency to rush the tempo.
Good luck man. As I mentioned earlier, lower level players can maybe just "go for it" and forget the metronome for now...but for sure the more advanced level players have no excuse.
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