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Joined: Jan. 30 2007
From: London (the South of it), England
Inspirational material
After not playing for so long due to my previously mentioned thumb break... I'm looking to buy a decent transcription book, teaching material etc (inspired by reading the Luzia book thread) to get me motivated to play and practice again.
Transcription books can be boring, why not watch youtube or documentary(such as rito y geografia del cante) videos for example and try copy what the masters are doing, or trying to make own falsetas based on what they are doing? Or just trying to come up with own ideas?
Yeah I do that plenty. Just fancied buying physical thing. You know. I fancy that pleasure of holding a shiny new material object. To add to my collection...Maybe I'll get one of the decent paco books.
La Sonanta has a DVD/book pack with stuff by Jeronimo Maya. I think it's meant to be more or less like the Encuentro series. I'm not really recommending it because I don't have it myself. I just want it.
It's not new though. A previous description of it, reading through the archives of the foro, said: "not much in the way of pulgar". So it might be ideal for you in your current predicament!
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Seems like Youtube has replaced the Encuentro series. I miss the excitement of getting that new Encuentro tape in the mail and then watching it back to back a thousand times. On the flip side, its nice having youtube videos of the guitarist of your picking, but still not the same. Encuentro Presents Antonio Rey will nver come to pass.
No, I'm quoting what Merengue says when he's teaching on the Encuentro series. I think it was fandango or sevillana that he was teaching, and he illustrates the pattern by saying, "Madera, Madera, golpe" or something like that. I found it funny how he says "madera" to reference what I normally call a golpe, but I guess there are different ways of saying things.
When you said "Are youu referring to your head?", were you trying to be passive-aggressive towards me?
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