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Useful reminder for anyone with performance nerves
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Miguel de Maria
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From: Phoenix, AZ
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RE: Useful reminder for anyone with ... (in reply to Jon Boyes)
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Jon, this is true. last night I played my first solo gig (before I have played in duos and trios), and it was a hearty four hours long! Four Seasons lounge. Now, I have been steadily building my repertoire, but four hours! I know there was going to be some improvisation, some repetition, as my friend Miguel calls it: "repitorio." I played okay, some pieces well, some horrible. I played a John Williams piece and screwed it up so bad, I got kind of mad and kept repeating this one section until I got it right. A few times I felt I was floundering and about to go under. And for some reason in the third set, my fingers started to get dead tired, right in the middle of some rather energetic, picado intensive pieces! What I played would not have served flamenco aficionados well, but apparently it went over okay to the patrons, as I got two tips, several compliments from the staff, and my wife, who lovingly accompanied me, said I sounded good!
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Date Feb. 25 2004 18:05:17
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Miguel de Maria
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From: Phoenix, AZ
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RE: Useful reminder for anyone with ... (in reply to Jon Boyes)
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Jon, sorry I didn't see your reply. In my set I play a bulerias, a sevillanas, several rumbas, a columbianas, a siguriyas, and a solea. I'm adding another columbianas, a farruca, and an alegrias, hopefully before this summer. Actually I can email you my song list if you want.
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Date Mar. 22 2004 16:58:40
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Miguel de Maria
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RE: Useful reminder for anyone with ... (in reply to Jon Boyes)
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Actually, Jon, this reminds me of something I recently observed. I played a 2-hour gig at an art gallery on Thursday, it's this thing in Scottsdale called the Artwalk where lots of rich people walk around and look at art and drink free wine and stuff. Anyways, I was playing outside and as a result a lot of people stopped and listened for awhile. This gig was harder and more demanding than the 4-hour lounge gig. I think it was because when you are just filling the room with guitar sound, you can repeat to your heart's content, you can improvise, and a flub here or there never hurts anyone. When people are watching, there's much more pressure, to play well and also be entertaining. I found myself in a bit of a panic and running out of material for the 2 hour gig! And then on Saturday I got another 4 hour gig, and didn't repeat a single thing.... weird....I guess giving a 45 min. concert is much more intense and harder than a 4 hour lounge act.
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Date Mar. 22 2004 17:11:23
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