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Ricardo
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RE: Keeping the pulse (in reply to kitarist)
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ORIGINAL: kitarist You are right - the last bit, after the two 4/4 bars, is 7/16 long, before they loop the same musical phrase again. Initially I thought they are playing the musical theme the second time offset by 1/16, til it gets reconciled by the end of that second 4+6 (4+4+2); but apparently no, they just play the theme again. It's called "Odd elegy", I first went to 5's to check the feel and it worked for me at first, didn't listen all the way through. Like you I felt the last 16th accented leading the down beat of the repeat. I am usually skeptical about odd bar phrases as the basis for metric feel. In this case I don't sense the two down beats of 4 in the phrase, nor the down beat of 7/16 being played off of or around or otherwise expressed. Of course the math works. Two bars of 5/4 just feels better to me, with the last beat losing a 16th. In reality, I would just have a single 10 beat bar with the division on the last beat 3 16ths, the rest grouped or beamed in 4's. (39/16). Another clean version would be 9/4 + a bar of 3/16. I think that is how they feel it, no 4/4 phrases as bar lines are all getting crossed IMO.
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Ricardo
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RE: Keeping the pulse (in reply to sim999)
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Thanks for the reply Ricardo, I can hear it now 13/8 would be maybe more "correct". Well, I have a little pet peeve about defining the quarter note at anything above 200bpm. In this case, my metronome only does quarter note to 240, so this tune is maxing out the 8th note groove. I prefer to think of em as 16ths. Perhaps on paper I might like to see it beamed as 3+2/16, then a 2/4. (Yes that's right, Buleria palmas I prefer to think of as 8th notes not quarters like solea). Considering it's a pretty incessant groove, I would teach it as: 1 2 3,1 2,1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, repeat. A proper 13/8 (in family line with it's other odd relatives) I would think of as either: 1&2&3&4&5&6&ah, repeat, or 1&ah2&3&4&5&6& repeat. More similar to what we have but still a bit different accent.
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Ricardo
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ORIGINAL: sim999 quote:
And still, when their leader fabrizio cassol tried to work with paco, he backed off because he couldn't follow THAT complexity. I also think flamenco is way more difficult than what most western jazz players do. I agree with Piwin here, check the stuff I posted previously and the work by Tigran Hamsyan or Avishai cohen. These guys have an insane level, they could easily understand any complex flamenco rhythm and improvise on these. Jazz has also evolved you know. Any drummers that worked with tigran, avishai or Brad mehldau like Mark Giuliana, Arthur Hnatek, Daniel Dorn, or the tabla player zakir hussain would have no problems with flamenco rhythms at all. It's not always about a "math" problem, in that sense flamenco is relatively simple math and groove. It's the phrasing that is part of the flamenco language that is learned via the dance and cante accompaniment that is odd. I give for example Chiquito by PDL...it is quite clear that when the musicians he makes fusions with do their improvisations, not the worked out melodies (Anda Jaleo), they don't really feel the same phrase as Paco. Basically what it comes down to is this: those musicians mentioned above and Zakir Hussein and including the Jazz guys like McLaughlin, all have the same phrasing concept regardless of meter....to lead to the down beat. Flamenco is quite different as we rematar early, but not always, and somehow only flamenco people get this at first. I honestly don't think McLaughlin understands the "down beat" Paco is feeling when they play Chiquito, and the math works out anyway but I find it amusing.
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