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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 😆
@@Nijoto I'll make more video with palmas patterns with contras ;-) You can also practice with el "paso de subida" for example. Here: - th-cam.com/video/njbGur7YklI/w-d-xo.html - th-cam.com/video/MUnX7E4SCt0/w-d-xo.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
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?
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 🙃
@@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).
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.
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Very cool. Feel like a curtain has been opened, now it all makes sense. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! 👏 Thanks for the comment!
Off beat is the right term for contre temps
Thank you for this lesson
Thanks! 🙏 I appreciate the clarification!
Olé Guillermo !
Gracias Gina! 😉
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 😈🙃
i really wish people could be normal about flamenco, exoticism is not the move
Beautiful lesson! Thank you very much!
You're very welcome! 🙃
6:30 - helpful! maybe for a subida
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Fantastic explanation!
Thank you so much! 👏🙃
This was an excellent video! Really appreciate how you explained each step. Can’t wait to see more!
Im so glad it was helpful! Thanks for the comment, Heather! 🙃
Beautifully explained 👏🏻
Thank you so much! Glad it was helpful!
The best tutorial👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks a lot! I appreciate 🙃🙏
Your vídeos help me a lot! I’d like you to talk about Sevilhanas!!
I’m glad it helped! Sevillanas, noted! 🙃
Muy bien explicado. Gracias.
Me alegro de haberte podido ayudar! Gracias por comentar! 😊
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!!!
Thanks for the feedback and the comment, Dave! I'm happy to help you in your journey!
Que bien explicado! Gracias!
Mil gracias! 🤩
Awesome, explained in a way easy to understand! Thank you!!
Thanks a lot for the feedback! 🙃
Olé! Que explicación tan perfecta para empezar. Además en inglés. Muchísimas gracias!
Muchas gracias por el feedback! I’m glad it helped 😊
Moustache Gracias 🙏
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Omg so happy to find your training videos. Now I can start learning
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Very nicely explained
Thanks! I’m glad it helped! 🙃
Thank you very much!!
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I love your videos !!! They are so so useful !!!!
Great! Thank you Mary! 😊
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!
Excellent breakdowns
Thanks Marsha! 🙏🙃
Thanx, mate! 😊🙏🙏
You're very much welcome!🙃
Exactly!:-)
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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 😆
Oh my apologies Guillermo! Thanks so much, again :)
haha no problem @@annalohning3262
Amazing! Thank you. Do you have tutorials that apply compás to various rhythms, such as Bulería, Soleá, Seguiria, etc.?
Thanks! You mean to apply contras to all kind of compases? I’m not sure, but anyways I can make more 🙃
@@FlamencoMAPS Haha, yes, that is what I mean. 😄
@@Nijoto I'll make more video with palmas patterns with contras ;-)
You can also practice with el "paso de subida" for example.
Here:
- th-cam.com/video/njbGur7YklI/w-d-xo.html
- th-cam.com/video/MUnX7E4SCt0/w-d-xo.html
The b/w video of Carman Amaya (rip)- bulerias, is that the immortal Sabicas playing guitar?
The guitarists in that video are Antonio de Linares “Pucherete” and Andrés Batista 🙃
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
@@poyai111 That's amazing! I love vinyl records too! Was Jose Luis Gonzalez Martinez singing Cantes de las Minas?
@@FlamencoMAPS my favorite vinyl - "flamenco espana" bernabe de Moron. Are you familiar with it?
@@poyai111 Never heard of him! I'll check, thank you!
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?
It really is a fascinating subject, and it will take more than one video to cover it! I replied to your email!
I think the right translation for "contratiempo" is sincopation (but I'm not sure, i'm not a musician)
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 🙃
@@FlamencoMAPS thank you!
@@FannyPlusvi My pleasure ;-)
Can you teach us accompany 1 palo with guitar?
Yes! Which palo? 🙃
@@FlamencoMAPS tango is good ❣just want to know the basics and how its done,thanks❣
@@FlamencoMAPS composing falseta in palos should be same az cante?the number of sentences or etc...thanks
@@FlamencoMAPS they say if you want to compose falsetas you should know acommpany cante..but in iran no one knows how to do that
@@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).
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The name in English for how you're describing the "contras" would be "off beat" 👍
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.
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Thank you so much!!!
You're welcome Noe! 🙃