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Nothing captures the essence of Spanish culture as does flamenco. Nearly 60 years ago, as an apostle of the genre, it became my burning ambition to learn flamenco guitar so, while on a visit to Adelaide, browsing through an old book shop, I discovered my heart's desire and snapped it up immediately, believing I had located the divine Cup of Antiquity. Imagine the disastrous emptiness I felt when I later opened the package in Sydney to find the entire book was written in Spanish and the only Spanish I knew was " qando amor no es locura, no es amor" Many thanks, as a new subscriber
Thank you so much for your comment! I’m glad my content helps you! I loved the quote! Have you learned Spanish since then? With enough motivation, anything is possible 😈🙃
FlamencoMAPS is great!!!! I love flamenco and want to know everything about it. FlamencoMAPS has taught me more than any other source. I am super impressed by how it is explained in a way that is easy to understand but still very in depth. Great job!!! Thank you!!! Mucha gracia!!!
I was listening to Paco and Ramon playing "Al verte Las Flores Lloran" - a really fast and intense version with Camaron singing and they were doing contratiempos in between the 8th note triplets. At that speed it is very difficult (for me) to get in that tiny space and stay on it but it was an essential element to Paco's guitar part. I'm pretty sure he needed those contratiempos to play with intensity he did on that recording.
Thanks for your comment! I listened again to that bulería and it seems to me that it's only regular contras (8th notes) but the tempo is very fast indeed! The feel is incredible and the guitar is... hahaha I have no words!
Thanks Diego, your explanations are wonderful, and so helpful. Luv your sense of humour! Been dancing flamenco fo awhile but sometimes have trouble hearing the compas (knowing when to start!) in some pieces. So learning the rythyms and palmas & contratiempo is really useful for me. I thought something would also be helpful would be to play a piece of music and practice the palmas and catching the beats/timing. Eg for a Solea por Buleria. Thanks again, 💃Luv El Tito! I want one 😊
Thanks a lot Anna. 🙏 Im so glad it helped! You’re right, I should do videos on how to come in a compás, perceive where the compás starts etc. thanks! I’m Guillermo by the way, not Diego 😆
Syncopation is for example when you place on a sub-beat an accent of a phrase that « should » be on a beat. So it plays with and on the contras but it’s not a contra 🙃
I’d like to see a video to teach beginners where to place Jaleos. When appropriate with Letras and escobillas. I was told a long time ago, that it was considered rude to use jaleos while cantaor is singing, but I hear it sometimes, so now I am confused. Also can it be distracting for a dancer during escobillas?
@@Nijoto I'll make more video with palmas patterns with contras ;-) You can also practice with el "paso de subida" for example. Here: - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-njbGur7YklI.html - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MUnX7E4SCt0.html
I had a very extensive collection of vinyl records accumulated over 40 years included were Carmen Amaya, Sabicas, many others worthy of the same respect and veneration. During my stay in Broken Hill, a great mining town, I met a Spanish engineer with the unlikely moniker of Jose Luis Gonzalez Martinez who interpreted many of the cante jondo songs. His assistance enabled me to further appreciate the very essence of the genre
Thanks for the comment, Kim! I also hear offbeats commonly, but it seems that strictly speaking offbeats are the "weaker" beats of a bar, like the 2 and 4 in a 4/4 time signature. I refer rather to the second binary eighth note of each beat. There seem to be several possible conventions for this: counter beat, off beat, upbeat, sub beat... all these possibilities imply something a bit different. "Contras" makes it simple actually ;-)
@@FlamencoMAPS It's possible that the description you outline above may be the "classical" or traditional definition of an "off beat", but in popular music at least (which is what I specialise in), the second halves of the main beats, so all the "and"s in "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and", are definitely called the "off beats" :)
@@KimChandlerSinger Thank you very much for the clarification! Thank you for pointing out the different contexts. This is exactly what can lead to confusion: same words, different meanings depending on the context.
@@payamgolrokh7953 Not necessarily, but it's good to follow a structure. At least: melodic idea A + melodic idea B + remate. However in a toque por a palo which belongs to the family of fandangos (it means any kind of fandangos: de Huelva, abandolaos, malagueña, taranta, granaína...), you should have at least one falseta that uses the same structure as a letra de fandango (number os harmonic lines and harmonic structure/chord progression).
