Cante flamenco
The long awaited course on flamenco singing was last weekend. Sadly Inmaculada Rivero had trouble with her voice and could not teach us. Nevertheless, we had our course, as Jesús Flores (sang in Kromosomi 47 Flamenco!) took the task. He was absolutelu wonderful and also rather patient and understanding with us timid Finns.
We mostly worked on tangos, also buleria and finally a shy (that’s me being shy, not Jesús) attempt at soleá. I am still processing it all, but it was really all a realization that there is only so much you can do on your own with records. My biggest problem is with the rythm - in classic training you are supposed to follow the beat and not slip - in flamenco you always slip, follow, lead, it’s more of an organic connection. I honestly thought I had a hang of it all at one point, but then when it was my turn to sing alone I did not know when to start. That is something you can not train with a record - the song will not wait, and you will believe you started right even when you did not. But we decided on the course we will bribe a guitarrist to work with in the future, see if we will find one…
