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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 !
Amazing video. One thing I'd like to add is, whether you play guitar or some other instrument, sing, dance, palmas or percussion, or if you're just listening to music, sing along! Out loud, internally, whatever. Vocalizing a melody, harmony, or a rhythm is, in my opinion, at least 50% of learning the music. Maybe it's just me, but when i play guitar or piano, I dont try to play perfectly, I try to sing perfectly, and I think this is perhaps the most important part of all music. Even music that does not utilize tones (for example palmas or solo drums or something) you can still vocalize the rhythm using sounds like those "Ba-da", "Ti-ki", "Ta-ka", "Dhuum", etc. and you can easily vocalize an entire rhythmic/percussive line. It's also a great way to figure out what someone else played or sang. If you can sing it, you can figure it out on your instrument
Thanks for this comment! I totally agree, singing is so important! I could have emphasized a bit more on that in this video. Singing the rhythm phrases is smoothing I use and teach all the time, many of the rhythm exercises in this channel are based on the typical syllables that flamenco dancers use: “taka” and “tikota”. Studying Konnakol is also very helpful to understand and feel rhythm in a less “occidental” way. 🙃
I can identify "major". "Flamenco" and "minor" are hard but the color references help and the "soft landing" for minor helps. Also the short distance for flamenco mode. To me major cadence sounds "classical" and the other two feel middle eastern - just an impression. I imagined baroque couple dancers with major, and male flamenco dancers with minor and flamenco - during the just listen part of the video. Interesting!
Thanks Audrey! Im glad it helped! Thanks for sharing your mental images and words that emerge from listening and just let your brain come up with something 😉 I think that any kind of visualization and internalization is very efficient.
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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 !
Wow, thank you! 🙏 I hope the almighty RUclips algorithm hears you! 🙃
Thanks a lot for watching and for your comments!
moooree moooree exercises like that))) please:)))))
Hahaha 😝 Will do!!
I only identified 3. Need to listen to again😊
That’s all it takes, a bit of training ! 🙃💪🙃
Amazing video. One thing I'd like to add is, whether you play guitar or some other instrument, sing, dance, palmas or percussion, or if you're just listening to music, sing along! Out loud, internally, whatever. Vocalizing a melody, harmony, or a rhythm is, in my opinion, at least 50% of learning the music. Maybe it's just me, but when i play guitar or piano, I dont try to play perfectly, I try to sing perfectly, and I think this is perhaps the most important part of all music. Even music that does not utilize tones (for example palmas or solo drums or something) you can still vocalize the rhythm using sounds like those "Ba-da", "Ti-ki", "Ta-ka", "Dhuum", etc. and you can easily vocalize an entire rhythmic/percussive line. It's also a great way to figure out what someone else played or sang. If you can sing it, you can figure it out on your instrument
Thanks for this comment! I totally agree, singing is so important! I could have emphasized a bit more on that in this video. Singing the rhythm phrases is smoothing I use and teach all the time, many of the rhythm exercises in this channel are based on the typical syllables that flamenco dancers use: “taka” and “tikota”. Studying Konnakol is also very helpful to understand and feel rhythm in a less “occidental” way. 🙃
I can identify "major". "Flamenco" and "minor" are hard but the color references help and the "soft landing" for minor helps. Also the short distance for flamenco mode. To me major cadence sounds "classical" and the other two feel middle eastern - just an impression. I imagined baroque couple dancers with major, and male flamenco dancers with minor and flamenco - during the just listen part of the video. Interesting!
Thanks Audrey! Im glad it helped! Thanks for sharing your mental images and words that emerge from listening and just let your brain come up with something 😉 I think that any kind of visualization and internalization is very efficient.
Ugh. I only got one cadence correct in the identification exercise. My ears are not very trained!! I will listen to this again.
Yes, just a little bit of time and patience and it will become crystal clear! 💪🙃
It feels like breathing in and out the flamenco mode of tension and resolution - more of a sigh, do you know what I mean?
Yes! This is an exercise I do with my students 🙃