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RE: A lesson with Barbosa Lima back ... (in reply to jg7238)
I really like how you handeled your face during performance and lecture. Perfectly humble and attentive. Very nice! ( When I play I often look like on a funeral or something, at least however unattentive.)
RE: A lesson with Barbosa Lima back ... (in reply to Grisha)
Hey thank you Grisha. I wasn't sure what kind of reaction I would get posting this on a flamenco forum but I appreciate it. Thanks Erik. Thank you Ruphus. Ricardo thanks for watching. I tend to agree with you.
RE: A lesson with Barbosa Lima back ... (in reply to Ricardo)
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I am starting to come to terms with fact that for me my tastes have gravitated such that the music of Paco and Bach is the best of all time.
I second this, they both have such complexities in their work that I may have listened to a piece 1000 times and I feel I am still discovering. Besides the music, they stir something emotional within me. However I am only in my 20s and I keep thinking there is nothing left to discover musically that will satisfy me in the way that they have.
RE: A lesson with Barbosa Lima back ... (in reply to estebanana)
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ORIGINAL: estebanana
I like that it's in the kitchen.
Somehow the kitchen is a great place not only in general but also for taking out your guitar and play a tune. There are those really nice old takes with Paco and brother in the kitchen and personally I had some inspired sessions in kitchens too.
Acoustically kitchens could be also more appealing as there are only little of absorbing surfaces. And you could say that the stringed instrument was probably born in the prehistorical kitchen ( as left over tendon on bones from trash that used to gather in heaps around the fireplace until even small radial gangways were trenched out ).
Rather unclear anyway how architects up from the fifties had come to draw kitchens as small sorts of storerooms, and how they had to later rediscover that this working room is a centered meeting place for the people and has always been.
Now we are back to kitchens built as larger rooms, and here in my house for instance kitchen and living room share a relatively big space.
Kitchens are no more intimate places that would be kept out of sight.
RE: A lesson with Barbosa Lima back ... (in reply to Grisha)
He tells me to hold the G note on the first string @ 1:12 then I go back to my old fingering. I really don't know what Grisha found that is "fantastic" about it. Maybe he meant odd?
RE: A lesson with Barbosa Lima back ... (in reply to Guest)
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ORIGINAL: Shroomy726
I officially categorize your past, present, and future posts as "spewing of ****" and will block/hide them.
It seems he found a back door... yesterday when i watched a flamenco post on youtube it was preceded by a 2 minute video advertisement promoting the classical guitar (offered by "thisisclassicalguitar":-).
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RE: A lesson with Barbosa Lima back ... (in reply to jg7238)
Thanks jg, that was very nice.
I met Carlos ages ago during the first big guitar festival in Toronto - I had the job of picking up various guests from the airport, including him and Alirio Diaz. Both of them nice guys and great players, with spidery hands, but Carlos has a freaky left hand with the longest little finger I ever saw. It seems there's a touch of octopus DNA in there. You were lucky to have a kitchen session with him.
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(Ricardo:) I am starting to come to terms with fact that for me my tastes have gravitated such that the music of Paco and Bach is the best of all time.
RE: A lesson with Barbosa Lima back ... (in reply to Estevan)
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but Carlos has a freaky left hand with the longest little finger I ever saw. It seems there's a touch of octopus DNA in there. You were lucky to have a kitchen session with him.
He really does. That's why I think most of his arrangements are only playable to him especially the ragtime stuff... I did study with him for awhile. He actually liked my tremolo but yeah I was fortunate enough to study with him. He did a few things that wasn't just fair with that LH pinky. My fingers are tiny compared to his.