[HTL-74] Baroque Flamenco: Bellica-Bellica-Belly-Belly-Belly
Soundboard Percussion
Start with Harps Tuned in C
[HTL-74-210513 – HARP TIME LIVE #74 – Thu. May. 13, 2021]
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In which we use the words “Bellica-Bellica-Belly-Belly-Belly” to internalize the rhythm of the Baroque Flamenco variations, the Cadenza and the soundboard slaps
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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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16:28:49 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : Hoi Sarah,
16:29:29 From sarah to Everyone : Hoi Joke
16:30:00 From sarah to Everyone : nog geen half bake. Kids vakantie en heb nog steeds dezelfde struggle.
16:33:06 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles to Everyone : Thank you!
16:34:54 From Betty Herloski to Everyone : Ok. A little distoy
16:35:21 From Mary Mc Fadden to Everyone : no it’s clean
16:39:43 From debra Sawyer to Everyone : E A &G
16:50:30 From Heather F to Everyone : Have to run, have everybody!
16:52:18 From Yael Yaniv Perry to Everyone : how can I know that it is not to strong for the harp? I have a lever harp
17:03:10 From Yael Yaniv Perry to Everyone : thanks
17:13:39 From debra Sawyer to Everyone : th e practice of the rhythm helps you ground it
17:13:58 From Betty Herloski to Everyone : Rhythm is getting better
17:14:20 From Carol Henley to Everyone : I got the rhythm, but it meant I had to do one hand at a time sometimes, in order to keep the rhythm.
17:14:27 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : I got pain in my fingers. Then I changed playing the rhytme on some strings and I could do the basses as wel.
17:14:28 From Sally to Everyone : Haven’t played the piece in a while till yesterday and was struggling with the soundboard taps. This has helped me get it back to feeling more natural.
17:14:34 From Kimberly’s iPad to Everyone : Took me a bit to get it but once I found a few notes I could add after the E and F and stay in the rhythm it felt more natural
17:15:01 From Barb Lawson to Everyone : BvI can get the rhythm better with using f and e. It’s harder to beat and play at the same time but I can get it with practice.
17:15:13 From Tara to Everyone : Sometimes I forget I have a right hand—maybe it was keeping the rhythm and maybe not. I think that’s a step toward automation, eventually.
17:15:49 From Lesley Macleod to Everyone : Is the ‘up strum’ an active action or more of a passive rebound?
17:16:29 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles to Everyone : It was fun experimenting and improvising with a new rhythm and tonality.
17:17:18 From sarah to Everyone : t helps for me with the words. I was already practicing this is in the sheet music version 3 letter P measure 177. But to practice this way is helpful and nice to do. It is going in to my body.
17:17:25 From Diane Kadyk to Everyone : Damping certain strings while strumming to change strummed chords
17:18:11 From Jilly to Everyone : sounds great
17:18:36 From Lesley Macleod to Everyone : could have kept going with the rhythm – I see how it could almost induce a trance like state!
17:18:52 From Sally to Everyone : Glad you went over this section since this is the one giving me trouble yesterday. Hard to coordinate the two hands.
17:19:22 From Midge to Everyone : isolating the parts helps
17:23:28 From Sally to Everyone : Sarah, great minds and all. That’s what I was working on too. I remember I was tapping the rhythm out on every surface I was near when I first learned the piece.
17:25:23 From janeilmola to Everyone : just think: I want to BE in a-MER-I-CA
17:30:34 From Kimberly’s iPad to Everyone : So fun!
17:31:26 From debra Sawyer to Everyone : i got rhythm
17:31:30 From Jilly to Everyone : fun fun fun
17:31:33 From Lynne Lapidus to Everyone : tapping and playing at the same time is definitely something to work on
17:31:36 From Barb Lawson to Everyone : It was really fun!
17:31:50 From Carol Henley to Everyone : the beleca, beleca, beli, beli, beli was VERY helpful
17:31:52 From Cherrie Mooney to Everyone : The shapes are the same in different keys.
17:31:53 From Yael Yaniv Perry to Everyone : it was interesting to play it in a different key. and it is also sounds diffrent
17:32:21 From Kimberly’s iPad to Everyone : Getting hands together is challenging but just something to keep working on
17:32:27 From Terri to Everyone : I am not playing because I am getting ready for work, but this sounds like so much fun ! can’t wait to catch the replay .
17:32:38 From Deborah Fleisher to Everyone : Definitely too much for my right hand, will have to find a rhythmic alternative
17:32:38 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : So nice to see you work out what I was practising this week.
17:32:48 From sarah to Everyone : Hi Sally, Im tapping this also sometimes on my bike. I didn’t manage measure 181, how it is written. But I could cheatt, maybe. Sally you already manage to play this piece, so beautiful!
17:33:00 From Betty Herloski to Everyone : Now that I have the rhythm I don’t know whether to tap or strum
17:33:22 From Sally to Everyone : Lol, Sarah, about your bike. I
17:34:00 From Sally to Everyone : Sarah, I’d be willing to help in any way I can. That area you’re talking about used to give me headaches.
17:34:07 From Lesley Macleod to Everyone : loved tapping the rhythm with my right hand but my left hand wanted to play the same rhythm on the strings!
17:34:46 From Joy to Everyone : repetition is the key and encourages experimentation. thank you
17:34:56 From Anne Horton to Everyone : Love to all!! Just popped in to say hi!! But I gotta go!
17:35:05 From Tara to Everyone : I like exploring the different ways to play the same chords over and over, and finding different clusters and ornamental notes.
17:35:25 From Jilly to Everyone : thanks v much
17:35:35 From Yael Yaniv Perry to Everyone : thank you very much 🙂
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17:35:49 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : Goodnight everybody
17:35:53 From Celeste Rogers to Everyone : Thanks!
17:35:56 From Nancy C’s laptop to Everyone : Thank you Deborah!
17:35:57 From Lesley Macleod to Everyone : Thanks for the great session!
17:36:04 From Tara to Everyone : Thank you!
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