RUMBA - another flamenco piece!

[jackofall]

This one I made up myself. (If you can call G, D, C & B7 a composition!) There's three guitars. I did it years ago on my portastudio but still remember what I did.

 

[dragonshade]

OMG!!! THis is AWESOME!!!

Flamenco is so cool, great job!!!

[BossMicroBRew]

This is really cool. I hope you continue to post these.

(If you can call G, D, C & B7 a composition!)

Ha! I still call G, C, D a composition.

[Greeny]

It's not about the chords - it's what you do with them that counts 

Another great (actually, better than great) piece of music, jackofall.

Can I ask a couple of stupid questions...

I'm guessing this is all nylon guitar. Right?

And you'd never use a pick for flamenco?

And how do you get that 'loose' sound with the strings? Is it down-tuning? Or is flamenco in an alternate tuning?

Thanks 

[Bluesberry]

Great great job.  Your flamence tone is spot on, your playing is spot on.  Is your middle name Pedro by any chance.

[jackofall]

You're all such a nice bunch of guys! Thanks so much again for your encouragement. Greeny, thanks for your questions. The flamenco guitar is exactly the same as a classical guitar or electric guitar in tuning (sometimes there's a dropped D tuning as in the Zambra), the strings are nylon, like a classical guitar but it's the wood used that makes that percussive sound, I think. Flamenco guitars are incredibly light. It's like balsawood to pick up but they are like a drum, full of tension. The 'loose' sound is the Rasgueado technique - you punch out your right hand fingers one by one, scraping your nails across the strings. THere's another technique where you flail the strings with thumb and two fingers in a circular motion. That gives a continuous roll. I think that's what I like about flamenco guitar - there's absolutely nothing like it. It's unique and weird and so bloody primitive!

[Greeny]

Thanks for the insight! And you're right - it really is a primitive, primal sound. On Martin Scorcese's 'History of the Blues', he makes a lot of connection between the blues and flamenco.

And those guitars sound very fragile!

[Greeny]

* Bump *

This is frigging genius.

[corryhully]

just too good :-)

[Redler]

Excellent job, jacko!! It is nice to hear that here's so much music in very many genres! THis one gives me a holiday feel in some Mediterranean resort! Fantastic playing...

Kari