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Posts: 3532
Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ
RE: If you ever wanted to learn Pharaon (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
I don't know, I actually asked him that myself. I have listed to a couple different versions, and none match up completely as far as I can tell. He also starts the sextuplet part wrong :)
Seems to be most people just use Pharaon as a kind of vamp anyway. I like it because I can play it with a looper and don't have to mess with backing tracks.
Posts: 15470
Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC
RE: If you ever wanted to learn Pharaon (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
Well it's actually a riff based on Vicente's taranta falseta that used this same melody and chords, and we improvise. I like to use D melodic minor on the G chord some times. Anyway every version will be different as it's just an improvisation. But I want to make sure he didn't learn this from Rodrigo and Gabriela or the Prof. or something horrible like that. e
Posts: 3532
Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ
RE: If you ever wanted to learn Pharaon (in reply to rombsix)
Cool, Ramzi. I've never heard that one--which album is it from?
I hear the sextuplets you have as #11 starting a whole tone higher, but the rest the same.
Ricardo, that C# sounds badass. I seem to hear that "modal substitution" (probably using totally incorrect substitution) every once in awhile in flamenco and rumbas, and love it.