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Audio clip of me
2005-04-08, 2:25 PM #1
You can find it here.

This particular flamenco form is a free style in open tuning (D A D F# B E). This piece was composed and played by Paco de Lucia for his good friend, the best singer of all time Camaron de la Isla, when he died.

My mic is insanely terrible, but you can hear what I'm doing... more or less. This is one take, so there are lots of technical and musical errors.
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enshu
2005-04-08, 2:38 PM #2
You rock... well... not literally.

But you need a better mic. It makes your strings sound all tinny or something.
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2005-04-08, 3:26 PM #3
Sounds good, really liked it. I'm not going to comment on technicalities , but just overall it was very pleasant to my ears :D.
2005-04-08, 10:14 PM #4
I really like that style, how can I learn to improvise good in it?

Especially alzapualesn.wmv, melodicminor.wmv,pickfinger.wmv, solealesn.wmv,Hensoleaimprov.wmv. Those are REALLY cool. Is that you playing some of those? If so, those are awesome.
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2005-04-09, 12:46 AM #5
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But you need a better mic. It makes your strings sound all tinny or something.


Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I definitely need a better mic (this one is part of a headset). It's really demotivating to hear yourself on such a recording when you try really hard to put a thickness, vibrato, in it. The singing of the trebles was lost especially. I have no idea what kind of mic is good enough, yet cheap. I'll see about that in the future.

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I really like that style, how can I learn to improvise good in it?


Flamenco comprises 100+ forms, and only a few of them (like rumba which you may have heard of) are suitable for improvisation (traditional scheme for rumba, 8 beats each: Em D C B). The only improvisation other than that happening in flamenco is choosing whatever melody to play next (there are no pieces, musicians just string previously learned parts together at the moment itself, most often between singing).

The hensoleaimprov.wmv you mentioned is another good example of why it would be really hard: the rhythm of that style (solea) is very strict. (count it out: one two THREE one two THREE one TWO one TWO one TWO :|| )
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enshu

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