Baroque Flamenco
Start with Harps Tuned in C
[HTL-62-210218 – HARP TIME LIVE #62 – Thu. Feb. 18, 2021
In which we learn the BASICS of creating “Baroque Flamenco”
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Please add your own insights, revelations, and takeaways below in the comments, even if someone else already said the same thing! Just say it in your own way or say it again the way they did.
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16:39:11 From kirsti Kaldro : I’m so happy because I came in late this morning. So this is great! Thank you Deborah!
16:44:46 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles : Ditto Kirsti
16:59:33 From Stacie Link : same shape as you move down?
17:06:35 From iPhonemona seering : I need the e
17:06:55 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : => shape: A,C,E,A
17:07:01 From Stacie Link : I was looking at a b c e a
17:07:31 From Stefanie Bieber : For e: B-D-E
17:07:44 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : =>A,B,C,E,A
17:08:09 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : =>A,B,C,E
17:10:10 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles : Augmentation?
17:11:07 From Tara : Sounds right, Melinda.
17:11:33 From Veronica White : sorry, I was late. What’s the name of this piece.
17:11:43 From Stefanie Bieber : Baroque Flamenco
17:13:38 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : => A,E,A,G,D,G,F,C,F,E
17:13:49 From Alicia Dawes-Salazar : I have been playing this tune for a while…. interesting to simplify while I am temporarily one handed
17:14:44 From kirsti Kaldro : What was that fancy scale?
17:14:51 From Alicia Dawes-Salazar : that’s what I’m doing 😊
17:26:28 From Nancy C : Siciliana – first piece I played (Maryjan Zarick) – this so beautuful, simple, elegant, accessible.
17:26:29 From Veronica White : My eyes still cross when I look at the strings. This was hard.
17:26:48 From Lawrence : You can play random dissonant chords on the downward progression
17:27:02 From Alicia Dawes-Salazar : haha using my mouth for the lever change
17:27:06 From Tara : I learned that I need to choreograph the hand-over-hand stuff to get my LH back to the bass in time. Also that many “wrong” notes still sound good.
17:27:10 From Joke Verdoold : At the flamenco part I could ad glasses on the basses, and strum on them
17:27:11 From Cherrie Mooney : I liked the 7th to get rid of the g#.
17:27:12 From heatherflinn : Jean Jacques rousea
17:27:14 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles : I loved learning the different variations/shapes for playing the different chords. I will use that.
17:27:18 From Carol Henley : Even though I could not keep up, I could play something — sometimes B when you were on A, and vice versa
17:27:29 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : => the fancy scale was adding a 9th. A,B,C,E,A
17:28:01 From heatherflinn : Rousseau ! 1712-1778 im sure he would LOVE this!
17:28:17 From Harpie 2 : The 9th for me, nice rhythms but sometimes I didn’t follow them well. Specially in the left hand. I have to look over it. Loved to play along because it helps me to learn new ideas and variations.
17:29:37 From Evelyn G : repeating the same chords it doesnt have to be boring
17:30:03 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : So, going low to high: it was playing 3 strings in a row (2nds), then skip 1 (a third up), then skip 2 (a fourth up).
17:30:06 From Vera Stern : hard to devide rhythm between hands!
17:30:07 From heatherflinn : Esus4 is cool too
17:30:14 From debra Sawyer : On the episode down on left up on right, opposites and also playing the right strum on top of the descendent. E sus , the upper octave melody is so compelling.
17:32:10 From heatherflinn : I did ABE
17:32:27 From heatherflinn : YUP
17:32:41 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : =>On top of the D chord we can play D,F,B
17:32:46 From Gail : We absolutely LOVE the way you play and improvise on this beautiful song. We loved learning the GREAT left hand parts. SOooo… cool! Mary and Gail
17:33:55 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : => on top of the E chord we can also play E,F,A,B
17:35:54 From Nancy C : So beautiful!
17:35:59 From iPhonemona seering : fun fun fun
17:36:02 From Harpie 2 : ABE thx DHC and Heather
17:36:05 From debra Sawyer : I never got to play this on electric harp. Wonderful to play around with Capich? Zowee!
17:36:12 From Carol Henley : I was blown away by all the variations!
17:36:13 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles : more stuff to squeeze into my brain
17:36:16 From Lawrence : You can do so much with a simple progression
17:36:18 From Joke Verdoold : Yay, I learned to play a whole piece today
17:36:27 From heatherflinn : This is the perfect tune for classics lovers and those HARD ROCKERS
17:36:29 From Nancy C : Shapes and intervals, 7th, 9ths, variations.
17:36:43 From Carol : I was improvising!!!!
17:36:53 From kirsti Kaldro : You broke this down to its fundamental parts, so that I could go over and play it at the hospital right now if I needed to. Amazing to learn something so quickly!
17:37:21 From Betty Herloski : that chord progression is used a lot in songs
17:37:34 From Tara : I like thinking of this as an improv game. I have the sheet music, which I will look at again, but this will help me play more freely.
17:38:17 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : => descending baseline: A,G,F,E
17:38:27 From Sheila Jaffe : You can also break into Hit the Road Jack or Wade in the water
17:38:29 From Vera Stern : this particular melody is the most easy to absorb and improv on! easy and flexible
17:39:39 From Veronica White : GTG..Love to you all!
17:39:48 From kirsti Kaldro : Your sharing that you started gigging when you only had 4 tunes is so inspiring. It is such an illustration of how when you want to do something you just have to go and act as if, and then before you know it, you ARE doing it!
17:41:22 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/academy/htlwdhc-harp-time-with-dhc-live-main-page/
17:41:37 From Joke Verdoold : Goodnight from the Netherlands
17:41:41 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/academy/htlwdhc-harp-time-with-dhc-live-main-page/
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