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Joined: Dec. 6 2006
From: Hamilton, ON
SpB escobilla
A dancer I'm playing for is doing soleá por bulería and wants to work on an escobilla. What are some simple and traditional things to play for escobilla in SpB?
If your playing por medio, you can play something very similiar to the standard solea escobilla in E-just bar the 5th fret and play the same chord shapes as you do por solea por arriba. (F,C,F,E) On the 5th fret you'll be playing Bb, F,Bb,A You can do the same sort of arpeggios or rasquedos in those chord shapes you do for solea escobillas.
OTOH, you can just do another chord progression, but I think the standard stuff works well especially at the start of the escobilla, because that stuff usually works really well with dance steps. I liked to start it off really trad, then when the steps move away from the obvious traditional patterns, do something different. Then it usually speeds up to bulerias and your off to the races till the break.
A dancer I'm playing for is doing soleá por bulería and wants to work on an escobilla. What are some simple and traditional things to play for escobilla in SpB?
So if you mean you play por medio (cuz you can also play por arriba and its same deal as solea for baile), you can adapt somewhat solea ideas like I do at the end of this piece (the very end when I have sped up a bit) I am marking in 3's like escobilla normally does chords are Gm9, Fmaj7, Bb9#11, A/G:
Melodically the typical line of SpB is D-C#D, C-B-C, Bb-A-Bb-, A arp played with pulgar while fingers to arps or open E string, whatever you want.
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