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1、Flamenco Rhythms by Oscar Herrero 1 FLAMENCO RHYTHMS One of the characteristics of flamenco music is its great variety of styles Some have an established rhythmic structure Sole Siguiriya Buler a etc while others are free metered Ton s Taranta Grana na Malague a etc However this is a Flamenco Metron
2、ome so let s focus on styles with a rhythmic structure The first flamenco instrument was the human voice the cante sung by the cantaor and the first cantes unsurprisingly perhaps did not have a fixed metre Ton s Martinete Debla etc Later on around 1840 it seems the guitar began to be used to accompa
3、ny the voice rhythmically and harmonically palmas clapping pitos finger snapping and golpeo knocking knuckles on a table or a stick on the floor were used as percussion instruments and dancing visually embellished the singing They all took their lead from the voice At this point the workers set to i
4、t and began to establish rhythmic rules for the cantes New styles were born and the 12 beat flamenco comp s or measure came into being giving rise to a wide variety of different styles such as Sole Siguiriya Buler a Alegr a Guajira etc As flamenco performers had no written music they invented a jarg
5、on to make themselves understood with terms such as Cierre a rhythmic break Remate a finishing flurry or Llamada a call or signal A new music was born called FLAMENCO Flamenco music is a language for communicating expressing happiness sadness rage passion Traditionally flamenco musicians learnt by l
6、istening imitating and repeating like a baby learning to speak This clearly has a positive effect on flamenco musicians but it is also negative because they plainly lack schooling It is my belief that the ideal place for a musician any musician to learn is at school Academic training is of the utmos
7、t importance but so is the education to be gained from performers who learnt from others in the school of life Perhaps both schools must be attended in order to learn completely Throughout the history of flamenco people have said to sing or play or dance flamenco you have to be born with it feel it
8、inside It can t be taught I agree Any activity in life requires certain basic skills but they need to be developed Just how many guitarists singers dancers painters doctors are there hidden away around the world How many geniuses who weren t born into the right environment to develop their skills If
9、 Paco de Luc a s father hadn t liked flamenco and had moved to Australia or any other place where Paco wouldn t have come into contact with flamenco would he have become a guitarist He might have been a genius because I believe he has that something inside him but perhaps it would have been as a doc
10、tor or a great writer or an artist of another kind Among all the children who are starving to death or can t go to school there must surely be hidden geniuses I have always believed that people are born with their talent with all that destiny has in store then their vocation stirs up inside them and
11、 finally they learn their trade from those who know it well and can teach them That s why each life evolves with what is learnt and added along the way Gypsies they say have a special feel for flamenco rhythm Are they born with comp s Or is it perhaps a gift that comes from listening over and over a
12、gain from the cradle to the rhythm of buler as and tangos and the clickety clickety clack of hands clapping If gypsies and payos non gypsies swapped cradles at birth we would see just how profoundly important our upbringing is where we truly come from as we struggle and strive for what we feel and w
13、hat we desire regardless of our origins because nearly always they are nothing but happenstance and stereotypes that have never contributed anything to the greatness of flamenco Flamenco Rhythms by Oscar Herrero 2 The Flamenco Metronome aims to offer you the depth of knowledge that comes from growin
14、g up in an environment gypsy or otherwise where people live and breathe rhythm comp s When you practice a falseta a dance step or a cante we want you to feel the flamenco comp s and truly master it Even if it is electronic device the rhythms are programmed with real feeling so they can also be enjoy
15、ed as an accompaniment For the programming I wanted an outstanding percussionist Throughout my career as a flamenco guitarist I have played with many musicians but very few have impressed me as much as Guillermo McGill That s why the rhythms on this Flamenco Metronome breathe life Just listen and se
16、e what you think A musician with a non flamenco background who listens to a Sole or a Siguiriya can t understand how the rhythms work Flamenco challenges many of the canons of western music Students of music for example are taught that there are three basic rhythms 2 beat 3 beat and 4 beat and the accent is always on the first beat However early flamenco rhythms have 12 beats that combine 2 beat and 3 beat rhythms with the accent on the last beat Conventional rhythm Two beat 1 2 1 2 1 2 Three be
