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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!
I began my musical education playing blues based music & jazz. Later in life , I played percussion for various Flamenco dance troupes and guitarists.. I have always wanted to articulate the similarities yet differences between the improvised nature of jazz & Flamenco . This video does a Spectacular job expressing what I couldn’t . Using the word POR (for) Is profound. To play For The music, For the style, for the dancer, for the Singer is to allow oneself to be free of a predetermined structure. I am a fan and have subscribed. 🙏🏽
Thank you Guillermo! I enjoyed learning more of the subtleties of "por". I'm looking forward to studying more of compas and how the compases vary by palo.
Muchísimas gracias por compartir tus conocimientos de una manera tan fantástica! Thank you very much! I grew up in Málaga from the age of 5, but come from a mixed non-Spanish background. Coming from a family that listened to music, but never played any instruments, I didn't discover playing the guitar until my early 20s. Remaining completely self-taught since then, I've only improved very slowly and in occasional bursts over the past 15 years. This wonderful style of music that I grew up listening to has always seemed out of reach due to how complex and varied I've perceived it to be. Your videos are really making me reconsider, and I'm now eagerly (yet very slowly) trying to approach this beautiful music on my guitar.
Hola! Mil gracias por comentar y compartir! I'm so happy these videos help you better understand, and helped you understand that it is possible to understand it ;-) Let me know if you have any question!
Thank you so much, this is the most COMPREHENSIVE EXPLANATION I have heard in 10+ years of flamenco palo, music. Yes, music it is felt not to be explained, and this is so true for me. I am not Spanish, but when I was very young 25 years old I came across the movie Carmen by Saura! And that music, that guitar just enter my main pleasure centers in the brain. Then at 40 I started study flamenco dance and never left the journey. To have a map of the colors is most useful because I really would like to move and dance by feeling the music. It could be creative if a flamenco dance teacher can come up with warm up exercise with dance steps for each palo, in a way to practice and educate my ear to each rhythm. (Buleria por...., Solea por...)
Thanks a lot Cleo! I'm glad it helped! For sure we feel music first, but when we want to play, dance, sing... then, in my opinion, it needs to be explained, especially to people like us who weren't born there and are starting later. Because the explanations and the mindful exercises will FEED the feeling. I don't consider these two things (feeling and explaining) as incompatible, but really complementary. I am currently opening "Rhythm, Compás & Palmas" courses, precisely to go through all this and really learn to feel the compases better, the dance steps we do, the palmas we play etc. all this in a very practical way. All information here: flamencomaps.com/compas-group/ Do not hesitate to contact me for any information. 🙃
For me, the solo guitarist is an EXTENSION of the accompanying guitarist, not an alternative. In flamenco, you can't really conceive of a guitarist who is ONLY a soloist, without knowing how to accompany cante or el baile. Think of all the great soloists: Paco, Manolo, Tomatito, Vicente... Afterwards, it's a matter of interest: it's possible not to be interested in cante and baile, and that's respectable. But it's more a question of credibility and legitimacy: (to put it in a nutshell) if in Spain you don't know how to accompany, then the rest won't be worth anything, even if you are the best instrumental guitarist in the world. You could say that the main value is SHARING.
Having trouble taking your next step in flamenco?
FREE eBOOK to DOWNLOAD: "Flamenco, from pratice to art: find your way, enjoy the journey",
on flamencomaps.com/
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!
Thank you so much! 😊 For watching and for the comment!
This channel deserves 1 million subs
Saludos mi amigo 🙏🏻🇪🇸❤️🌺
May the TH-cam Gods hear you, amigo! 😇🙃🤩 thanks a lot!
Claro como el agua. Guillermo walks a difficult border between clarity and appreciation of the brilliant obscurity of flamenco.
Gracias Reyes! Viva la brilliant obscurity! 🙃
I began my musical education playing blues based music & jazz. Later in life , I played percussion for various Flamenco dance troupes and guitarists.. I have always wanted to articulate the similarities yet differences between the improvised nature of jazz & Flamenco . This video does a Spectacular job expressing what I couldn’t . Using the word POR (for) Is profound. To play For The music, For the style, for the dancer, for the Singer is to allow oneself to be free of a predetermined structure. I am a fan and have subscribed. 🙏🏽
So much culture and wisdom in 3 letters, right? That’s amazing. Thank you so much for your words, for commenting and subscribing! 🙃
Thank you Guillermo! I enjoyed learning more of the subtleties of "por". I'm looking forward to studying more of compas and how the compases vary by palo.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for all your comments, it helps a lot the channel to grow! 🙏🙃
Muchísimas gracias por compartir tus conocimientos de una manera tan fantástica! Thank you very much!
I grew up in Málaga from the age of 5, but come from a mixed non-Spanish background. Coming from a family that listened to music, but never played any instruments, I didn't discover playing the guitar until my early 20s. Remaining completely self-taught since then, I've only improved very slowly and in occasional bursts over the past 15 years.
This wonderful style of music that I grew up listening to has always seemed out of reach due to how complex and varied I've perceived it to be. Your videos are really making me reconsider, and I'm now eagerly (yet very slowly) trying to approach this beautiful music on my guitar.
Hola! Mil gracias por comentar y compartir! I'm so happy these videos help you better understand, and helped you understand that it is possible to understand it ;-) Let me know if you have any question!
Me gusts su canal. Gracias . Como usted dice esto es un Journey
Perfect.easy fun
Amazing.
You help me so much.😃😃😃😃
Thanks Marianne! I’m glad it helped 🙃🤩
fantastic. thanks
Thanks Jason! 😉
fantastic
Thanks 😊🙏
Thank you so much, this is the most COMPREHENSIVE EXPLANATION I have heard in 10+ years of flamenco palo, music. Yes, music it is felt not to be explained, and this is so true for me. I am not Spanish, but when I was very young 25 years old I came across the movie Carmen by Saura! And that music, that guitar just enter my main pleasure centers in the brain. Then at 40 I started study flamenco dance and never left the journey. To have a map of the colors is most useful because I really would like to move and dance by feeling the music. It could be creative if a flamenco dance teacher can come up with warm up exercise with dance steps for each palo, in a way to practice and educate my ear to each rhythm. (Buleria por...., Solea por...)
Thanks a lot Cleo! I'm glad it helped! For sure we feel music first, but when we want to play, dance, sing... then, in my opinion, it needs to be explained, especially to people like us who weren't born there and are starting later. Because the explanations and the mindful exercises will FEED the feeling.
I don't consider these two things (feeling and explaining) as incompatible, but really complementary.
I am currently opening "Rhythm, Compás & Palmas" courses, precisely to go through all this and really learn to feel the compases better, the dance steps we do, the palmas we play etc. all this in a very practical way.
All information here: flamencomaps.com/compas-group/
Do not hesitate to contact me for any information. 🙃
Solo vs. accompaniment guitar (global perspective)?
For me, the solo guitarist is an EXTENSION of the accompanying guitarist, not an alternative.
In flamenco, you can't really conceive of a guitarist who is ONLY a soloist, without knowing how to accompany cante or el baile. Think of all the great soloists: Paco, Manolo, Tomatito, Vicente...
Afterwards, it's a matter of interest: it's possible not to be interested in cante and baile, and that's respectable.
But it's more a question of credibility and legitimacy: (to put it in a nutshell) if in Spain you don't know how to accompany, then the rest won't be worth anything, even if you are the best instrumental guitarist in the world.
You could say that the main value is SHARING.
the most important word in flamenco is of course ... ole!😄
True :-)