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Part 3b Voice type in flamenco

By miguel | Published: June 30, 2008

The quality of voice is of supreme importance in flamenco as it can imbue flamenco with one of its most important elements: “el quejio”. “El quejio” is perhaps best translated as a “cry of desperation” and often said to be one of the basic elements of the ”cante jondo”, that is, those palos which are the most profound and deep. Here is a breakdown of some of the major divisions of types of voice. Read More »

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Part 3a Characteristics of Cante Flamenco

By miguel | Published: June 30, 2008

There are perhaps two things which immediately seem to come to people’s minds on the first hearing of flamenco: unusual melodic lines and the timbre of the singer’s voice. The crystalline tone developed and favoured in the conservatory or in many types of popular music is not usually the type of voice favoured in flamenco.

Due to mixing of various cultures, flamenco has, to Anglo-Saxon ears, strange and perhaps oriental sounds. cante-flamenco/#more-146" class="more-link">Read More »

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Azerbaijan

By miguel | Published: June 26, 2008

Click to goOne of the first sites that I created was a photo gallery with commentaries in Spanish to show my friends and colleagues in Latin speaking countries what I had been up to.

Recently I learned that a colleague from the University where I work will be going to Baku, so I thought that I would put up these pictures for some time.

There are lots of photos (click on the photos to see them full size), music and even film. The photo in this post will take you to the welcome page of the Azerbaijan site, so you will navigate away from the English language site.


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Scales the theory

By miguel | Published: June 24, 2008

I have finished the introductory page to scales. As yet, the page is only theoretical, but doing the research and understanding the information by giving practical application has proved very useful to me already. Armed with the theoretical knowledge from the theory, I have now gone onto write my own flamenco related scales, and these will be published as soon as they are finished.

Why is it useful to study scales?

  1. Scales are the building blocks from which all music is created:
    1. for melodies (horizontal structures),
    2. for chords (vertical structures),
    3. for arpeggios (oblique structures).
  2. Scales offer excellent rıght and left hand practice, and especially co-ordination.
  3. You begin to understand what you are doing when you play
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Page update

By miguel | Published: June 7, 2008

At last! The chords page has some tablature for downloading. It is a simple, though long, series of six note chords that I often use to assist my right hand study and training.

“One of the maxims of effective practice is to break everything down to the smallest possible movement. Isolated problems Read More »

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