Sabicas has to be the greatest guitarist ever yet not many people would know of him. I seriously can't think of a good argument for why any other guitarist is better. Tone, technique, expressiveness, rhythm - he has them all refined to a level I never thought possible
Master Neo To me Sabicas had that little extra edge in terms of the depth of his playing. The different sounds he is able to coax out of the guitar and just the technique which seems way ahead of his time. I know it sounds silly but it truly is like he became one with his instrument. Comparing Paco to Sabicas is hard and there isn't much between them at the end of the day, it just comes down to how I personally connect with the music. I'm just glad we have been lucky enough to have both of them grace the earth
+Master Neo they were master and apprentice actually. Does the apprentice surpassed the master? to me, no. but i don't think that if you prefer Paco de Lucia you are wrong, they both were ones of the most incredible guitar players ever recorded.
I consider myself eclectic when it comes to music and I've appreciated good music no matter what the genre. Concerts, festivals, raves I'd trade it all for an hour of Sabicas live.
"really strong"? He's playing every chord on the guitar, at the same time, sometimes getting more than 1 note from a pluck; is there anything STRONGER? Like, can anyone play all chords simultaneously on TWO guitars? Because I fail to comprehend how anyone can "outperform" him using one guitar lol
I learned to play classical guitar at the American Institute of Guitar on 55th Street in NY back in the 80s. From time to time, I would notice an old guy sitting in the front room before my lessons. Dennis Koster, who was a teacher there, seemed to be talking to him all the time. It was only years later that I realized that old man was...Sabicas. If only I had understood back then...
No solo era un virtuoso! También era mágico y Sicodélico, se salia a cada interpretación, puesto que tenia lo que tienen los grandes Bluesmans antiguos, inventiva sobre lo andado!!
Paco had is own way and qualities as they all do but what separates Sabicas from the rest is that he never met a note he didn't like. Rather than try to get away from them Sabicas tried to perfect each and every note.
Yes he was he was my God father my mom and dad used to have party's at our home my dad is from Spain my last name is castano McLeod is my husband name I have his picture on my face book page God bless you
Paco De Lucia met Sabicas briefly in a New York hotel, and was an admirer of Sabicas. However, Sabicas did not maintain a relationship with PDL, other than to gift Paco with the revelation that "in order to become a legend, you need to work on your own compositions instead of playing other people's." Paco said in a documentary that Sabicas was the reason that he started writing his own music. Both men were legends and should not be compared.. as they both reside in a Pantheon of untouchable guitar gods.
The best guitar player the world has ever known in my opinion. He covers all the facets of music so well especially the quick, soft, delicate passages that he plays with near perfect articulation and still manages to phrase things subtly with dynamics.
it sounds like a tape patch at 4:01 - 4:02 -an 1/8 second pause ? and is the only imperfect thing about this work of art. Hes a rhythm machine and I bet a percussionist at one point.
I love Sabicas. He makes things look so easy. I just love the pieces he played. They seem to be a mix between classical and flamenco. The best of both worlds. And like someone said before, he accentuates the pieces he plays so gracefully and with such emotion.
el virtuoso mas grande del flamenco, esto es una obra maestra recoje los sonidos de las danzas arabes a la perfeccion, que musicalida y virtuosismo. Sabicas fuistes grande y pocos lo supieron reconocer.
It always appear that Sabicas guitar had her own unique sound,it always amazed me. All those that tried to play his pieces never get to the same sound, Rip godfather
Nunca escuchas ni un pequeño sonido rasgado de alguna nota, simplemente es perfecto... no tengo ni idea porque lo sitúan debajo de algunos guitarristas.
+Steve Tamayo yes he does have perfect pitch which is super rare among musicians some have perfect pitch but dont play well some play well but dont have perfect pitch Sabicas owns both...
@@newinspiration2108 Perfect pitch is actually somewhat common among professional musicians. It also has almost no practical benefit for a solo performer on a fixed pitch instrument. There is no such thing as not having good pitch on an instrument with frets. Perfect pitch just means that you can identify pitches without reference to an instrument. It has nothing to do with musicality.
This calm and serenity, absolute relaxation. The composition and the humor, absolute perfection. Maestro Sabicas ! I would have liked to hear him live, fortunately there are videos like this. Thanks
Truly one of the greatest by any standard. Makes you think how each master makes the music their own with their own individual talent, feeling, emotion and technique. Bravo
For those who care: Yes, these are not steel strings. I would bet that flamenco was the last guitar style to switch from true gut strings to nylon. Probably also the last guitars to switch from wooden tuning pegs to "machines". Some classical luthiers did not differentiate between flamenco & classical instruments. But, there are reasons for there to be differences. Because of the nature of the music, it is appropriate for the flamenco sound to be brighter with less sustain. Too much sustain would cause the flurry of notes to be "muddy". Thus, a flamenco guitar is likely to use harder side & back tone woods, and a softer top with less bracing. The sides & top will also be thinner, sometimes less than an eighth of an inch. Hence, with this thinness and reduced bracing, these are delicate instruments.
the way he bends the low E I think they are slacked a bit? maybe to E flat hmmmm .This genius and my favorite flamenco guitarist that I had to wait 65 YEARS to find!!!
I believe he's in a drop tuning, which is why when he does alternating bass with the e and d strings, it is an octave, as if he were fretting the 2nd fret D string. so you are correct, his lowest string is looser than normal
@@williamhinson8305 so yes, we are both correct. basically the whole point is that he can now play the bottom 3 strings "open" for a bass line, allowing him to play melodies higher up on the neck simultaneously. guys like paco de Lucia do it the hard way, barring all over as they go and playing much more intricate melodies on the lower strings. not sure what Teo, the commenter, was thinking
@@mackhomie6 Man,I'm sorry. I'm getting old . I completely missed your comment. In classical guitar , the D tuning is very frequently used , sometimes to produce the drone effect as in the Sabicas' piece and sometimes to give a low D for pieces in D and d minor whether it makes it easier or not. I've always loved the hypnotic effect of the drone.
Yes, many arabian scales can be played in western instruments (piano, bass, guitar, etc), for example the one called "Suzidil" (Hijaz Kar on a) = a - a# - c# - d - e - f - g# - a. Some instruments like violin can play virtually any scale no matter if they have microtones. I´m still a beginner but i have composed a pair of tunes with some arabian scales, you can find them in my youtube channel for example the one i called "Canción misteriosa árabe / Mysterious arabic melody". Peace.
BTW the real father of Arabian music is Christian. He is Yuhanna Ben Sergon ben Mansoor better known as saint John of Damascus, an orthodox bishop of Arab origins . He is also the father of liturgical Christian music such as the Assyrian and byzantine ritual musics.
Absolutamente formidable!!!! Dicen que Sabicas es con Montoya el padre de la guitarra flamenca que hoy conocemos, cuanto le debemos agradecer a este sujeto!!!!
I was lucky enough to listen to him and Mario Escudero and watch Anita Ramos dance and play castanets a few times at the El Poce restaurant's Rincon room in San Gabriel. Also attended Sabicas' concert at Wilshire Ebell. I learned some flamenco licks on my old Martin nylon string guitar from fellow Sabicas fan, Dale Alexander and Freddie Noad. Sabicas was one of the pioneering greats, there are a lot of good aficianados 50 years later.
Extraordinaria técnica y una enorme sensibilidad, dos virtudes que sólo se encuentran en artistas geniales. Qué bueno descubrir a este ser fantástico. Enorme placer escucharlo.
This is a wonderful performance and I really enjoy listening to it. I was fortunate enough to see and hear Sabicas live a number of times. I always treasured those experiences. And yet, they are almost more like classical than Flamenco to me. Most of Sabicas' solo performances contain very little improvisation. Rather, it is all worked out to the last note. Still very, very beautiful, sparklingly clean and full of feeling. But somehow, to me not quite as satisfying as improvised Flamenco.
For those asking this peice is known as a Zambra. There are many many variations of Zambras so I couldn't tell you what this particular one is called. In the world of Flamenco songs are grouped basically into various key peices of music and then variations and created from these forms unlike other forms of music in the world that are basically just derived from a key. The spanish gypsies didn't know music theory and this is how they created and built songs.
Soy de Córdoba,la de Argentina, y si se le permite opinar a un aficionado, no creo poder decir cuál es mejor, pero opino que los guitarristas flamencos, como los nombrados por indalotumbao, son los MEJORES GUITARRISTAS DEL MUNDO, PERO LEJOS, absolutamente ASOMBROSOS. Además, seguramente son mis genes Romero, mi apellido materno, de Andalucía, los que vibran con Paco, con Sabicas, con Tomatito, con...¡Sublime, qué lujo!.
Que Maestro en verdad, jamás lo compararía con nadie, creo que cuando hablas de gente tan virtuosa los que no entendemos perdemos el derecho de comparar y solo nos queda admirar y disfrutar.
Cierto, este anormal junto con Paco de Lucia y niño miguel estan en un rango incomprendible y lejano de experiencia, simplemente queda escucharlos hipnotizados, y si hay que comparar a mi gusto pues Sabicas era mejor en sentido de que se le ve mas creativo mas improvisado y no dependia mucho de los picados que Paco de Lucia hacia a cada rato, y obvio no es malo, pero Sabicas sin picados ya te hacia estremecer y a eso sumale que haga picados
Sabicas has truly wonderful musicality wedded to his intimidating technique - in my view he is the Don - his personality flows through - so expressive - sad to say you can only truly get this expressive when your technique is so good it is a perfect reflection of the notes in your soul - a bummer for the rest of us who have more of one and less of the other lol :s lol - a tremendous talent :)
El más grande de todos los tiempos, mejor aún que los grandes clásicos como Andrés Segovia, Narciso Yepes, John Williams y Julián Bream, aunque sé que es muy diferente. Le sigue el prodigio de Niño Miguel! Dios nuestro Señor los tiene en su Santa Gloria!!!🙏🙏🙏
musicien like sabicas sagovia and montoya have such a mastering of the gitar that they can play any thing and every thing with it its like a full orchestra really amazing
Please everyone who cannot appreciate great musicians keep their thoughts to themselves all these Old masters lead the way for the great musicians today, without them we would not have the progress we have, so appreciate the great masters it is our history
indalotumbao, por supuesto, no debemos olvidar de dónde venimos. Mi hermano Marcelo me hizo escuchar por primera vez a Sabicas. Ël también toca flamenco (bastante bien le han dicho), en una guitarra que trajo de su viaje a España, donde pudo conocer todos esos lugares que yo sólo he visto en fotos. ¿Arriba la música y la hermandad hispanoamericana!
I should add that Zambras are always played with the low e string dropped to d. Zambras can be played with or without the capo it is up to the guitarist and the dancers. It is typically placed at the 3rd fret but sometimes is even placed at higher frets.
BRAVEO, it is truly pleasure this film has been preserved. Just listening to him play is certainly wonderful experience but to see him play this piece is outrageously spectacular, Sabicas is one of the royalty of Spanish guitar. I had the great opportunity of visiting the Spanish Music Center in NYC, on 44th street, where Sabicas visited many times while staying in the city.
I am an avid record collector and my collection is superb with only thee cream of the crop and Sabicus is in there! His album Flamenco reflections is an excellent example of the pureness of Sabicus.
Composing is by no means a walk in the park, there is always a "norm" that one has to follow, whether it be buleria, granainas or solea, like a shackles it keeps you from erring and wandering through notes and chords in the boundless forrest of music. Sabicas is, hands down the most shackle free man to ever walk the forrest.
Fantastic. Sabicas is best flamenco guitar player that I´ve ever heard. By the way, foreigners should not bother trying to play or dance flamenco. A person can only express what is truly inside. That's why sabicas is so good.
@ mark gunter and erdem 65 actually he uses a drop d tuning, he is capo'd at the 2nd fret but it sounds like capo at 3rd fret , i believe back in the day the process of broadcasting raised pitch 1/2 step, what ever the reason what u hear is a 1/2 step higher than what u would expect, so if u want to play along , use drop d, capo 3rd fret, i beleive the key wouild be D phrygian
I completely agree, as a learnt to play in primary school already then each and every single teacher or lecturer I had after that, knew of him and always said he's without a doubt the best guitarist and it's strange for me tbh if other guitarists who play flamenco or classical guitar don't know of him
To me, the distinguishing factor is knowing and feeling the undefinable essence of Flamenco, then being able to improvise on-the-spot to meet the mood and ambience, without losing the compas or essence. Frankly, not many can do that, Gypsy or payo. I can't. I've listened to Flamenco every day of my life for 56 years, and have played for a long time, as well. I still can't do it. Carlos Montoya had a magnificant lineage and he never did it. Keni "El Lebrijano" can and does everytime.
There are also special nylon strings for flamenco players, they have the lowest tension. With the capo and long nails it's easy to have a good sound with a minimal force, that's completely different technicue than classical playing. And also that guitar isn't normal classical guiatr it's also special for flamenco technique. Sorry for language mistakes
he is the greatest guitarrist I've heard. the new guitarists of today are doing flamenco jazz which I don't appreciate at all. the music of sabicas is unbeatable altho there are any good ones
Este é o pai inspirador de todos os guitarristas de flamenco .Note-se que hoje todos os grandes solam e outros acompanham, Com os grandes solistas não tem essa...fazem tudo sós e ao mesmo tempo
Nor is it another influence, the Arab, Jew Sephardic and mixed with ancient Spanish music. Do you think that there was no music in Spain before the Arabs and Jews? .... then much later, the gypsies arrived and added their touch, (the gypsies did not create the basic flamenco flamencoel already was) sl just as the gypsies of Europe adapt to each country to their folklore and bring their touch. , the Hungarian gypsies, Russians, and others, French gypsies ... and they adapt and contribute but do not create the musical folklore, of each place ... In short, flamenco is born in Spain with the influence of many roots, it mixes all this in the environmental and cultural container.
I think it is true that any artist can only express what is truly within and be authentic, I do not agree that one MUST be a Spanish Gypsy to be a real Flamenco artist. It is rare for payo to have duende, it is possible. In the S.F. Bay Area we are fortunate to have Keni "El Lebrijano", aka Kenneth Parker, who plays real Flamenco. In fact, he is so real that when he was traveling ni Spain he played for the likes of Fernanda y Bernarda de Utrera, as well as many other of the great cantaors.
Yeah... It's mainly based on F Hungarian Minor (aka; Double Harmonic Minor, or Harmonic Minor #4). Also (starting at 2:35), he temporarily uses the F Arabic scale before going back into the Hungarian Minor. They're relative to each other (F Hungarian translates to C Arabic / F Arabic translates to Bb Hungarian).
Hi You can order the tab from afendis ( look on the internet). He has transcribed about a half dozen zambras/danzas moras from Sabicas. Please note that Sabicas tended to make smaller variations of his own music when playing live, so that transcriptions will match the record to 100% but may vary in live.
Thanks a lot , my friend! Wonderful piece and brilliant playing! I like it very much! You are a great guitarist! I wish you all the best, also for your country! See you soon. Subbed also:). Congrats for your music, 5* and best regards Karlheinz
Genial este virtuoso de la guitarra flamenca. ¿Alguien sabe si existe un tema que se llama "MOTIVOS ÁRABES" ? . Recuerdo que lo interpretaba Sabicas, y que en un segmento del tema imitaba el tañir de campanas, y un voz decía "Qué bien suenan las campanas cuando las toca Sabicas". Un fraternal abrazo desde Argentina. Francisco.
Que decir de este maestro fue lo mejor y para mi aun nadie lo a mejorado
His tremolo is the most graceful I have ever seen or heard...
He plucks every string the way The Lord Himself would
Sabicas has to be the greatest guitarist ever yet not many people would know of him. I seriously can't think of a good argument for why any other guitarist is better. Tone, technique, expressiveness, rhythm - he has them all refined to a level I never thought possible
89Redge What about Paco De Lucia. ?
Master Neo To me Sabicas had that little extra edge in terms of the depth of his playing. The different sounds he is able to coax out of the guitar and just the technique which seems way ahead of his time. I know it sounds silly but it truly is like he became one with his instrument. Comparing Paco to Sabicas is hard and there isn't much between them at the end of the day, it just comes down to how I personally connect with the music. I'm just glad we have been lucky enough to have both of them grace the earth
+89Redge ...musicianship...
+Master Neo Sabicas and even Niño Miguel are probably at least at them same level than Paco.
+Master Neo they were master and apprentice actually. Does the apprentice surpassed the master? to me, no. but i don't think that if you prefer Paco de Lucia you are wrong, they both were ones of the most incredible guitar players ever recorded.
I consider myself eclectic when it comes to music and I've appreciated good music no matter what the genre. Concerts, festivals, raves I'd trade it all for an hour of Sabicas live.
His technical abilities are really strong but his method has so much feel to it that you get lost in the performance. Amazing...
You couldn't have said it any better
Perfect
Exactly........I absolutely love sabicas
I never heard of him until tonight. Absolutely amazing.@@robertgonzales1979
"really strong"? He's playing every chord on the guitar, at the same time, sometimes getting more than 1 note from a pluck; is there anything STRONGER? Like, can anyone play all chords simultaneously on TWO guitars? Because I fail to comprehend how anyone can "outperform" him using one guitar lol
This little man is a tremendous guitarist.
He sure carved a dent in the world of flamenco.
Ole!
I learned to play classical guitar at the American Institute of Guitar on 55th Street in NY back in the 80s. From time to time, I would notice an old guy sitting in the front room before my lessons. Dennis Koster, who was a teacher there, seemed to be talking to him all the time. It was only years later that I realized that old man was...Sabicas. If only I had understood back then...
🤯🤯🤯
No solo era un virtuoso! También era mágico y Sicodélico, se salia a cada interpretación, puesto que tenia lo que tienen los grandes Bluesmans antiguos, inventiva sobre lo andado!!
He is not only the best guitarist in history of flamenco (Paco de Lucia said that), but one of the greatest musicians ever. No doubts about this.
Paco had is own way and qualities as they all do but what separates Sabicas from the rest is that he never met a note he didn't like. Rather than try to get away from them Sabicas tried to perfect each and every note.
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music is not about best
@@JamesSpeiser all said!
Yes he was he was my God father my mom and dad used to have party's at our home my dad is from Spain my last name is castano McLeod is my husband name I have his picture on my face book page God bless you
Incredibile un chitarrista del genere a quell'epoca! Grande Sabicas!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟no ablo piu"a grande!
He makes it look so easy!
It is easy. The only catch is you have to be sabicas
He is the master of improvisation and creativity. He was the rock of Paco De Lucia, his mentor. Long live the Master!
Paco De Lucia met Sabicas briefly in a New York hotel, and was an admirer of Sabicas. However, Sabicas did not maintain a relationship with PDL, other than to gift Paco with the revelation that "in order to become a legend, you need to work on your own compositions instead of playing other people's." Paco said in a documentary that Sabicas was the reason that he started writing his own music. Both men were legends and should not be compared.. as they both reside in a Pantheon of untouchable guitar gods.
Uno de los dioses de la guitarra flamenca, descansa en paz maestro
Yo diria de la guitarra en general
The best guitar player the world has ever known in my opinion. He covers all the facets of music so well especially the quick, soft, delicate passages that he plays with near perfect articulation and still manages to phrase things subtly with dynamics.
"near perfect articulation"? -.-
I have never heard better flamenco in my life (age 65) I CAN"T stop playing this song!!!! I love the dissonant part at 2:26
it sounds like a tape patch at 4:01 - 4:02 -an 1/8 second pause ? and is the only imperfect thing about this work of art. Hes a rhythm machine and I bet a percussionist at one point.
I don’t think it’s a song.
You can’t stop playing this ‘piece’.
I love Sabicas. He makes things look so easy. I just love the pieces he played. They seem to be a mix between classical and flamenco. The best of both worlds. And like someone said before, he accentuates the pieces he plays so gracefully and with such emotion.
el virtuoso mas grande del flamenco, esto es una obra maestra recoje los sonidos de las danzas arabes a la perfeccion, que musicalida y virtuosismo. Sabicas fuistes grande y pocos lo supieron reconocer.
Suena a todo el Mediterráneo
This forever changed my perspective on music entirely.
Sabicas. Inspiring music.
I had the pleasure of seeing him live back in the late '80's in Boston. He was amazing.
To all, who just had the privilege of visiting this page: this is the best guitar player that ever lived, in my not so humble opinion.
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i belive chet atkins was of the same opinion
but he WAS humble
Flamenco is probably one of the most challenging styles one can tackle on guitar. Full appreciation for this fellow.
It always appear that Sabicas guitar had her own unique sound,it always amazed me.
All those that tried to play his pieces never get to the same sound,
Rip godfather
Nunca escuchas ni un pequeño sonido rasgado de alguna nota, simplemente es perfecto... no tengo ni idea porque lo sitúan debajo de algunos guitarristas.
I'm so freakin' happy that this was caught on video!
Yes!
He was my God father 🙏🏼
McLeod is my husband name I'm castano
We all are. It's like looking into the face of God.
His hands were the envy of many guitar players including Segovia. I heard that Sabicas had perfect pitch. This is an excellent performance.
+Steve Tamayo yes he does have perfect pitch which is super rare among musicians
some have perfect pitch but dont play well
some play well but dont have perfect pitch
Sabicas owns both...
@@newinspiration2108 Perfect pitch is actually somewhat common among professional musicians. It also has almost no practical benefit for a solo performer on a fixed pitch instrument. There is no such thing as not having good pitch on an instrument with frets. Perfect pitch just means that you can identify pitches without reference to an instrument. It has nothing to do with musicality.
This calm and serenity, absolute relaxation. The composition and the humor, absolute perfection. Maestro Sabicas ! I would have liked to hear him live, fortunately there are videos like this. Thanks
Truly one of the greatest by any standard. Makes you think how each master makes the music their own with their own individual talent, feeling, emotion and technique. Bravo
Jamás a existido ni Jamás existira al similar a este GENIO....!!!!
For those who care: Yes, these are not steel strings. I would bet that flamenco was the last guitar style to switch from true gut strings to nylon. Probably also the last guitars to switch from wooden tuning pegs to "machines". Some classical luthiers did not differentiate between flamenco & classical instruments. But, there are reasons for there to be differences.
Because of the nature of the music, it is appropriate for the flamenco sound to be brighter with less sustain. Too much sustain would cause the flurry of notes to be "muddy". Thus, a flamenco guitar is likely to use harder side & back tone woods, and a softer top with less bracing. The sides & top will also be thinner, sometimes less than an eighth of an inch. Hence, with this thinness and reduced bracing, these are delicate instruments.
the way he bends the low E I think they are slacked a bit? maybe to E flat hmmmm .This genius and my favorite flamenco guitarist that I had to wait 65 YEARS to find!!!
I believe he's in a drop tuning, which is why when he does alternating bass with the e and d strings, it is an octave, as if he were fretting the 2nd fret D string.
so you are correct, his lowest string is looser than normal
Without the capo he has tuned the sixth string down to D. He is alternating the 6th and 4th strings a lot.(D octaves)
@@williamhinson8305 so yes, we are both correct.
basically the whole point is that he can now play the bottom 3 strings "open" for a bass line, allowing him to play melodies higher up on the neck simultaneously.
guys like paco de Lucia do it the hard way, barring all over as they go and playing much more intricate melodies on the lower strings.
not sure what Teo, the commenter, was thinking
@@mackhomie6 Man,I'm sorry. I'm getting old . I completely missed your comment. In classical guitar , the D tuning is very frequently used , sometimes to produce the drone effect as in the Sabicas' piece and sometimes to give a low D for pieces in D and d minor whether it makes it easier or not. I've always loved the hypnotic effect of the drone.
De los mejores maestros de la guitarra. Descansa en paz.
Quelle execution !! musicien extraordinaire !! Et en plus, c'est lui qui a composé ça !
un MONSTRE !!
Yes, many arabian scales can be played in western instruments (piano, bass, guitar, etc), for example the one called "Suzidil" (Hijaz Kar on a) = a - a# - c# - d - e - f - g# - a. Some instruments like violin can play virtually any scale no matter if they have microtones. I´m still a beginner but i have composed a pair of tunes with some arabian scales, you can find them in my youtube channel for example the one i called "Canción misteriosa árabe / Mysterious arabic melody". Peace.
BTW the real father of Arabian music is Christian. He is Yuhanna Ben Sergon ben Mansoor better known as saint John of Damascus, an orthodox bishop of Arab origins . He is also the father of liturgical Christian music such as the Assyrian and byzantine ritual musics.
Absolutamente formidable!!!!
Dicen que Sabicas es con Montoya el padre de la guitarra flamenca que hoy conocemos, cuanto le debemos agradecer a este sujeto!!!!
El gran desconocido, para muchos, que arte y que manera de tocar la guitarra, ole ole y ole 👏 👏 👏
That was just AMAZING!! I have been listening to Sabicas for many years and ever performance whether live or a studio recording is simply fantastic!!!
I was lucky enough to listen to him and Mario Escudero and watch Anita Ramos dance and play castanets a few times at the El Poce restaurant's Rincon room in San Gabriel. Also attended Sabicas' concert at Wilshire Ebell. I learned some flamenco licks on my old Martin nylon string guitar from fellow Sabicas fan, Dale Alexander and Freddie Noad. Sabicas was one of the pioneering greats, there are a lot of good aficianados 50 years later.
Extraordinaria técnica y una enorme sensibilidad, dos virtudes que sólo se encuentran en artistas geniales. Qué bueno descubrir a este ser fantástico. Enorme placer escucharlo.
Absolutely amazing. The control he has over this instrument is god-like.
Tremolo, vibratos, ligados, punteos... Toda la tecnica de la guitarra en su maximo esplendor
This is a wonderful performance and I really enjoy listening to it. I was fortunate enough to see and hear Sabicas live a number of times. I always treasured those experiences. And yet, they are almost more like classical than Flamenco to me. Most of Sabicas' solo performances contain very little improvisation. Rather, it is all worked out to the last note. Still very, very beautiful, sparklingly clean and full of feeling. But somehow, to me not quite as satisfying as improvised Flamenco.
THE TRANSITIONS ARE FLAWLESS!!!! BRAVO
For those asking this peice is known as a Zambra. There are many many variations of Zambras so I couldn't tell you what this particular one is called. In the world of Flamenco songs are grouped basically into various key peices of music and then variations and created from these forms unlike other forms of music in the world that are basically just derived from a key. The spanish gypsies didn't know music theory and this is how they created and built songs.
Soy de Córdoba,la de Argentina, y si se le permite opinar a un aficionado, no creo poder decir cuál es mejor, pero opino que los guitarristas flamencos, como los nombrados por indalotumbao, son los MEJORES GUITARRISTAS DEL MUNDO, PERO LEJOS, absolutamente ASOMBROSOS. Además, seguramente son mis genes Romero, mi apellido materno, de Andalucía, los que vibran con Paco, con Sabicas, con Tomatito, con...¡Sublime, qué lujo!.
SABICAS, un grande, grandissimo.Ha portato il jondo ad un livello straordinario, che, aliàs, era il suo.Divino, meraviglioso...
Que Maestro en verdad, jamás lo compararía con nadie, creo que cuando hablas de gente tan virtuosa los que no entendemos perdemos el derecho de comparar y solo nos queda admirar y disfrutar.
Cierto, este anormal junto con Paco de Lucia y niño miguel estan en un rango incomprendible y lejano de experiencia, simplemente queda escucharlos hipnotizados, y si hay que comparar a mi gusto pues Sabicas era mejor en sentido de que se le ve mas creativo mas improvisado y no dependia mucho de los picados que Paco de Lucia hacia a cada rato, y obvio no es malo, pero Sabicas sin picados ya te hacia estremecer y a eso sumale que haga picados
Sabicas has truly wonderful musicality wedded to his intimidating technique - in my view he is the Don - his personality flows through - so expressive - sad to say you can only truly get this expressive when your technique is so good it is a perfect reflection of the notes in your soul - a bummer for the rest of us who have more of one and less of the other lol :s lol - a tremendous talent :)
El más grande de todos los tiempos, mejor aún que los grandes clásicos como Andrés Segovia, Narciso Yepes, John Williams y Julián Bream, aunque sé que es muy diferente. Le sigue el prodigio de Niño Miguel! Dios nuestro Señor los tiene en su Santa Gloria!!!🙏🙏🙏
Coincido totalmente
I love skill along with other greats such as Paco de Lucia and Alirio Diaz.
Sabicas e o violão se fundiam um no outro. Nenhuma interpretação se compara a essa, apesar de haver outras muito boas.
This song is hypnotizing. Grand Master Sabicas
musicien like sabicas sagovia and montoya have such a mastering of the gitar that they can play any thing and every thing with it its like a full orchestra really amazing
Please everyone who cannot appreciate great musicians keep their thoughts to themselves all these Old masters lead the way for the great musicians today, without them we would not have the progress we have, so appreciate the great masters it is our history
Que grande Sabicas..maestro de la guitarra flamenca.. saludos desde Bogota
indalotumbao, por supuesto, no debemos olvidar de dónde venimos. Mi hermano Marcelo me hizo escuchar por primera vez a Sabicas. Ël también toca flamenco (bastante bien le han dicho), en una guitarra que trajo de su viaje a España, donde pudo conocer todos esos lugares que yo sólo he visto en fotos. ¿Arriba la música y la hermandad hispanoamericana!
I should add that Zambras are always played with the low e string dropped to d. Zambras can be played with or without the capo it is up to the guitarist and the dancers. It is typically placed at the 3rd fret but sometimes is even placed at higher frets.
I wish that everyone in the world knew how great this is.
Awesome mastery of technique and dynamic evocation of emotion. Wow!!!
¡Señor Sabicas es muy bueno!
¡Me gusta muchísimo la música de Sabicas!
es una de las cosa mas bonitas que e escuchado en mi vida gracias masestro sabicas
IMO a standout as the "greatest" guitar player of all time. In terms of technical skill and composition.
BRAVEO, it is truly pleasure this film has been preserved. Just listening to him play is certainly wonderful experience but to see him play this piece is outrageously spectacular, Sabicas is one of the royalty of Spanish guitar. I had the great opportunity of visiting the Spanish Music Center in NYC, on 44th street, where Sabicas visited many times while staying in the city.
SABICAS siempre Enorme, MAGISTRAL, Único, maestro de maestros, y hermosa música que llega muy hondo y hace vibrar gracias
maravilloso como todo lo de este virtuoso de la guitarra!
I am an avid record collector and my collection is superb with only thee cream of the crop and Sabicus is in there! His album Flamenco reflections is an excellent example of the pureness of Sabicus.
Flamenco üstadları, sizleri dinleyebilmiş olmak büyük bir lütuf. Bana bu lütfu tattırdığınız için teşekkürler.
Divino ! Encanta a los oídos y mucho más al alma ! Gracias por brindarnos con esa hermosura !
@alhotti
This is magnificent and i'm an american.I saw him live 3x in L.A.
He had an Apartment in New york.
What musicality.
Composing is by no means a walk in the park, there is always a "norm" that one has to follow, whether it be buleria, granainas or solea, like a shackles it keeps you from erring and wandering through notes and chords in the boundless forrest of music. Sabicas is, hands down the most shackle free man to ever walk the forrest.
Fantastic. Sabicas is best flamenco guitar player that I´ve ever heard. By the way, foreigners should not bother trying to play or dance flamenco. A person can only express what is truly inside. That's why sabicas is so good.
Extraordinaire ! Je viens de découvrir ce grand artiste, merci beaucoup pour ce beau partage
@ mark gunter and erdem 65 actually he uses a drop d tuning, he is capo'd at the 2nd fret but it sounds like capo at 3rd fret , i believe back in the day the process of broadcasting raised pitch 1/2 step, what ever the reason what u hear is a 1/2 step higher than what u would expect, so if u want to play along , use drop d, capo 3rd fret, i beleive the key wouild be D phrygian
I completely agree, as a learnt to play in primary school already then each and every single teacher or lecturer I had after that, knew of him and always said he's without a doubt the best guitarist and it's strange for me tbh if other guitarists who play flamenco or classical guitar don't know of him
this proves that Arabian music can be played on guitar
take that my guitar teacher !!!!
Assem El-Barky actually, the first guitars were invented by the Arabs........... search them up
this is fantastic,so much inmagination,so moving,this is what makes youtube great ,the whole world can see and hear sabicas,
Damn, this guy was great! Perfection. I agree with those who say they never heard anyone better.
so relaxing and dark at the same time...amazing.!
To me, the distinguishing factor is knowing and feeling the undefinable essence of Flamenco, then being able to improvise on-the-spot to meet the mood and ambience, without losing the compas or essence. Frankly, not many can do that, Gypsy or payo. I can't. I've listened to Flamenco every day of my life for 56 years, and have played for a long time, as well. I still can't do it. Carlos Montoya had a magnificant lineage and he never did it. Keni "El Lebrijano" can and does everytime.
Yes, it's a dropped "D" tuning. Juan Serrano does a version called "Zambra" in his "Flamenco Concert Selections" book.
There are also special nylon strings for flamenco players, they have the lowest tension. With the capo and long nails it's easy to have a good sound with a minimal force, that's completely different technicue than classical playing. And also that guitar isn't normal classical guiatr it's also special for flamenco technique. Sorry for language mistakes
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I always thought flamenco guitars were different than classical
The father of modern progressive Flamenco music.
I can not get enough of this!!!! brilliant thats all i can say.
Incredible,
You can hear his style and his way of playing in almost all other masters of the flamenco guitar. Just listen to e.g. Paco de Lucia.
he is the greatest guitarrist I've heard. the new guitarists of today are doing flamenco jazz which I don't appreciate at all. the music of sabicas is unbeatable altho there are any good ones
Este é o pai inspirador de todos os guitarristas de flamenco .Note-se que hoje todos os grandes solam e outros acompanham, Com os grandes solistas não tem essa...fazem tudo sós e ao mesmo tempo
In some parts it sounds like Greek Rembetiko music.!
Amazing performance and composition!
This is simply amazing.
The arab roots of flamenco 😍
Arabian roots? Of course but don't forget hebraic roots
Nor is it another influence, the Arab, Jew Sephardic and mixed with ancient Spanish music. Do you think that there was no music in Spain before the Arabs and Jews? .... then much later, the gypsies arrived and added their touch, (the gypsies did not create the basic flamenco flamencoel already was) sl just as the gypsies of Europe adapt to each country to their folklore and bring their touch. , the Hungarian gypsies, Russians, and others, French gypsies ... and they adapt and contribute but do not create the musical folklore, of each place ... In short, flamenco is born in Spain with the influence of many roots, it mixes all this in the environmental and cultural container.
@@JLAC54 Well said
@@RoyalViking465 why is everybody getting angry about arab root or influence or whatever ?
@@jeanmalt2068 No one in the comments portrayed any anger whatsoever of arabic influence in the music. Not sure how you came to that conclusion.
I think it is true that any artist can only express what is truly within and be authentic, I do not agree that one MUST be a Spanish Gypsy to be a real Flamenco artist. It is rare for payo to have duende, it is possible. In the S.F. Bay Area we are fortunate to have Keni "El Lebrijano", aka Kenneth Parker, who plays real Flamenco. In fact, he is so real that when he was traveling ni Spain he played for the likes of Fernanda y Bernarda de Utrera, as well as many other of the great cantaors.
Yeah... It's mainly based on F Hungarian Minor (aka; Double Harmonic Minor, or Harmonic Minor #4). Also (starting at 2:35), he temporarily uses the F Arabic scale before going back into the Hungarian Minor. They're relative to each other (F Hungarian translates to C Arabic / F Arabic translates to Bb Hungarian).
The oudlike sound is quite striking, as well as the droning bass and moments of near dissonance.
@whitedragonio you should try to get this by ear. this is not just a fantastic composition, but also is a great ear training exercise. good look!
¡Ole Sabicas que eres el mejor! Lo decía La Niña de la Puebla y yo lo digo también.
master of guitar master of music.
Thank you alot. So wonderful. TH-cam is for persons like you!
Wow.
Mystical and Ecstatic.
In 1972, country picker Chet Atkins told Guitar Player magazine, "The finest technique around has got to be Sabicas, the Flamenco player."
so many versions and they all sound so different every time he does it. so good.
That...was....awesome!
Hi
You can order the tab from afendis ( look on the internet). He has transcribed about a half dozen zambras/danzas moras from Sabicas. Please note that Sabicas tended to make smaller variations of his own music when playing live, so that transcriptions will match the record to 100% but may vary in live.
Thanks a lot , my friend! Wonderful piece and brilliant playing! I like it very much! You are a great guitarist! I wish you all the best, also for your country! See you soon. Subbed also:). Congrats for your music, 5* and best regards Karlheinz
Genial este virtuoso de la guitarra flamenca. ¿Alguien sabe si existe un tema que se llama "MOTIVOS ÁRABES" ? . Recuerdo que lo interpretaba Sabicas, y que en un segmento del tema imitaba el tañir de campanas, y un voz decía "Qué bien suenan las campanas cuando las toca Sabicas". Un fraternal abrazo desde Argentina. Francisco.
thanks for the upload. I got his "greatest hits" album from 1960. (which hasn't incidentally got this on), so this true vintage and special.