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Taking a beginner Flamenco dance class for the first time felt like someone dropped me into the ocean and said, "swim to shore." I do like this 4 pronged approach and I agree, it will take time to reach a critical mass. So thank you for this visual representation of why it is important to work in so many different areas at once.

Perfect illustration. Very excellent teaching😊❤

You’re really helping me.

Ok...I'm a guitarist, and I've played flamenco solo, and with dance and singing for 30 years. What it is, is this: if you listen to Solea, Solea Por Bulerias or Alegrias from the early 20th century, you will hear that the guitars are clearly playing melodies that most of the time are straight 3/4 beginning on 1 of the cycle. If you speed this up with dancers, you will start to hear the 12 as the strong beat and it becomes a different rhythm. This is why the escobilla is a 3/4 melody, but one that begins on the 1 of the 12 beat cycle. Poor dancers will always get this wrong. Nowdays, guitarists will play falsetas of both types - those that begin on 1, and those that begin on 12. Tomatito's "La Ardilla" has a good example at 1.12. If you take away the compass it is a simple melody in 3/4. Then it goes straight back to the 12 beat compass. They are like 2 different parallel rhythms. You must learn and be comfortable with both.

This is fantastic! I was wanting to sing this letra for a dancer recently but I couldn't get my head around what the intended meaning was, so I didn't sing it. Now that I see this translation, I get what's trying to be conveyed with these words.

Guillermo an amazing teacher

finally I've understood the strange link between to "countin in 5 times" and the compas made of twelve beats!!! thanks!

the quantum mechanics of Soleá in 12 easy steps. 🤣

TY great explanation

Dancers’ bias - thinking about how we were drilled on traveling marcajes starting on 12 and with the accents being evenly weighted…To do the step it makes sense to start on 12. As you have taught - when you make a mental shift to 12 being a softer “pick up” and “grabbing the 3 count” as a stronger accent or tension point, its a simple/powerful way to make the marcaje musically nuanced and also more expressive. Seeing all those clips in the video really helps too.. 🙏

This is a "must see" video, the full version available for Patreon members that support Guillermo.

Great work as always, Guille! Typical of flamenco, everything is more complex than it seems. This helps to clear up the years of scratching my head over the 12 and the 1. You continue to blaze a trail in the field of flamenco education, and we're all grateful out here in flamenco land! Thank-you, thank-you!

Thank you for sharing all This knowledge 🎉🎉🎉

These are absolutely the best lessons! Thank you so much.

This is so incredibly helpful. Thank you.

Your videos are awesome. You are a great teacher, and the pdf is super helpful. I really appreciate the hard work you put into these. The thing Im trying to work on now is connecting all the smaller pieces together like rhythm, modes, palos etc, and your videos really help me with that ❤

Thanks so much. It seems that I have to start again with everything. Fantastico! :) x

Absolutely love your videos. Thank you!!

I love your channel!!! Thank you so much!

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Is the Tierra 12 or One?

Why so many artists / writers/ musicians experience synesthesia? Because so many of them /us are neurodivergent. 🙃 Anyway, fabulous channel, Guillermo. One of the few I find worth following. Many thanks for all the insightful videos.

Thank you ❤

Hemos empezado a bailar soleá en nuestra clase… y no soy la única que se siente insegura en el compás 😅 Tengo que enviar este vídeo a mis compañeras! Muchas gracias por compartirlo!

Once again I feel like "bingo!" after having watched one of your videos. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much!

The quality of this channel is incredible. To my opinion, It will become something like "The" reference for approaching and understanding the Flamenco culture. Amazing job ! Strongly feel it comes from great passion, great love, from heart, from Art. Thank you so much !

What a Flamenco Channel it is ! So generous! So deep ! Many thanks for the understanding you give ! I did not see that anywhere else ! Golden pedagogie ! We can't expect better to approach the core of Flamenco !!! Muchas gracias !!!

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A lot of this video (Paso de Subida) starts on 12. According to the "Fewer rhythms, More understanding" video, that's like the guajira compás: th-cam.com/video/CU6viq88FqQ/w-d-xo.html

In the discussion of 12-beat compáses at 13:55, we could imagine a pattern starting on 6. It's three yellow followed by two pink (like siguiríya), but with the accent at the start of the lego block instead of the end. Alternatively, it's guajira starting with yellow instead of pink. Is that pattern ever used in flamenco ?

Where do you have the music that is paying in the background? I was hoping for some actual sources recommendation

Wow!!! This is so helpful ❤️🤩thanks a lot!

Extreme well explained even for someone who may not have musical background

Everybody don't worry -- the second Siguiriya video has all the details. But this one got me playing Mission Impossible ! 😂

Respect and blessings for such clarity 🌻🌷

De verdad no podrías hacerlo en español 😂

Love love your stuff

¡Uf! Por fin empiezo a entender conceptos como el compás o el acento en flamenco. Tus explicaciones son súper claras. ¡Muchas gracias por estos videos!

Your vídeos help me a lot! I’d like you to talk about Sevilhanas!!

Your lessons are so beautiful. You manage to make things simple and subtle at the same time. I love the images you create to help us understand tha world of flamenco. Thank you so much!

Wow thank you so much 🙏

Guillermo, at last I found someone who agrees with me! I was lucky when I started flamenco 20 years ago with the Sevillanas, which I always felt as a shifting triple-duple beat, but my teacher insisted that it was in 3/4. The experience convinced me very early on that the Sevillanas and the Fandango de Huelva were polyrhythmic, an attitude that I carried on into the 12-beat compases. One interesting thing about the Sevillanas: Because of the polyrhythmic structure, sometimes the strong beats coincide, and sometimes they happen one after the other. Where they happen one after the other is where the rasgueado occurs, almost as if the guitar tries to "smear" the two successive strong beats together. I don't know if you'll agree with me about this. In any case it's a relief to finally get some validation, especially from an expert like you!

Excelente bro!!! Muchas gracias!!! 🙌🙌🙌

Vivo en los Estados Unidos. Dónde puedo tomar clases de cante flamenco? También, estoy buscando la letra tradicional de Tirititran Tran Tran Tran. Cualquier ayuda será apreciada. Gracias!

Guillermo, That was gretat! Thanks for explaining this so well.

I have most often seen in Tablaos in the US : Tangos, Bulerías, Tientos, Alegrías, Fandangos de Huelva, Solea, Solea por Bulería, Tarantos, Caña, Seguiriya, Guajira, Farruca. 😊

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