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RE: World Music - share some favorit... (in reply to Stu)
one of my favourite metal , greek masters Sakis Tolis alone is also very very good , i recommend his solo , hes a Dark master Rotting had some issues in the past just for their name , like arrested in Georgia just they arrived there , only for their name . This happen in some other places, it was hard to get gig in some places .. Still , their huge in the genre and have a long career
RE: World Music - share some favorit... (in reply to Manitas de Lata)
I dig these guys or anything by Azam Ali their singer.
This is one of my favorites:
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy, doesn't have to be fast, should have some meat on the bones, can be raw or well done, as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor.
RE: World Music - share some favorit... (in reply to Manitas de Lata)
Those of you in the US of A would just call this “music,” and some of you may find the thumbpicks and thumb wrap-over to be almost sacrilegious. Beautiful guitar music, though:
Merle Travis, playing “I’ll See You in my Dreams.”
Here’s a tutorial by Travis’ son Thom Bresh. His harmonic analysis isn’t the best (it’s in the key of C, not F), but he points out some important details, if you’re into the thumb wrap-over (I’m not).
And here’s Lenny Breau playing Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice” with his long nails, long hair and weird G string. Let it play to the end to see his use of false harmonics.
RE: World Music - share some favorit... (in reply to Manitas de Lata)
Thought I'd refloat this thread with a fun video:
A tribute to the great Earl Scruggs from his friends. Just imagine parts of this with palmas!
The guy who looks like Steve Martin is actually him. Pretty good banjo player, I’ve heard.
The guy who looks a little like Moraíto is Albert Lee. He’s got an extremely cool teaching video on YouTube (I think it’s part of the Hot Licks series). If you check out his older work, especially in that teaching video, his playing sounds gypsy, and I think that’s no coincidence, because it’s in his background (like fellow Brit Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and others).
Guitar would be a lot less interesting today if it weren’t for Django Reinhardt.
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RE: World Music - share some favorit... (in reply to Norman Paul Kliman)
Great stuff. When I was younger I used to think this was all pure improvisation. At some point I tried to learn some licks and it became evident that it is falsetas going on, just like flamenco. You work on a mechanism and then you can apply it across the board as needed once you have drilled it in at various tempos. The Indian music thing same deal, and I saw a lot of blue grass pros at that shakti concert, they totally commune with that up tempo thing. Bella flek opened for them.
I worked out some fun country licks as a joke using something similar to Manuel Morao’s thumb technique. My whole family was very annoyed that day.
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