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gj Michelob
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 RE: Paco's masterpiece (in reply to aeolus)
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So painful, both to watch and listen. Most excruciating a torture was the tremolo phrasing; Paco De Lucia's guitar sings it, effortlessly and smoothly, while Dervoed [the classical guitarist] shatters it into pieces, and drags them together anxiously into a meaningless phrase.
If you were trying to juxtapose classical and flamenco styles to show how the former isn't equipped to interpret the latter, this was as strong and conclusive an evidence as one could ever find.
If you thought, on the other hand, that this was a fine rendition of Paco De Lucia's work, well then, perhaps you ought to listen more to Paco De Lucia and pay less attention to his ill fit interpreters, such as this.
Or.... whatever floats your boat.
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Date Apr. 7 2014 14:12:59
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Richard Jernigan
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From: Austin, Texas USA
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RE: Paco's masterpiece (in reply to Leñador)
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ORIGINAL: Lenador
I'm gonna hold a class down at the Y for classical guitarists, "How to strum a guitar 101"
lolol, I've seen julean bream do it too, it's soooo awkward looking and sounding.
Pepe Romero is the only classical guitarist I have seen who has a decent rasgueado--except for Grisha of course, and his concert partner Jerome Mouffe is picking it up pretty well. Grisha and Jerome played classical and flamenco duets at their concert on March 29, Grisha played flamenco solos, Jerome played classical solos, one of them amazingly difficult, pulling it off very well.
The day before the concert, they gave a master class at the University Of Texas at Austin. Some good players played for them. Adam Holzman, the head of the University guitar department was there.
The most virtuosic student played the last movement of Rodrigo's Sonata Giocosa, which is guajiras in form and meter, with a fair amount of rasgueado. Her rhythm was dead square, no guajiras swing, but her playing was accurate and fluent, good dynamics. Her rasgueados didn't sound nearly as bad as most classical guitarists, but she sounded notably better after Grisha's rasgueado lesson.
Grisha gave a very detailed description and demonstration of flamenco style a-m-i-i rasgueado for about ten minutes. Everybody in the room paid very close attention, and everybody was doing rasgueados on their leg as they watched and listened.
After the student showed she had picked up part of what Grisha said, she asked about using the thumb. Grisha described and demonstrated p-m-p rasgueado, without using the word "abanico", but there wasn't as much time to work on that.
RNJ
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Date Apr. 7 2014 20:24:55
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I love the look at the end when he strums that last chord & gives everyone in the audience the middle finger with his fretting hand. 
