[deteresa]

Hey guys and gals,
Here's some stuff in Bulerias por Solea I composed about a week ago...still in the rough stages. Wanted to get some feedback though. I ended abruptly because the compas loop ran out

Here it is:

YouTube - Bulerias por Solea - Andy Culpepper

[Payul]

Awesome Andy!

Nice tremolo, also the picado at 1:10 I liked a lot;
Cool you can make your own stuff.

You know there is a Study flamenco at the Conservatory in Rotterdam-the Netherlands?

[Bianconeri]

That was awesome Did you really compose this piece on your own?
However, I prefer it to be more energetic at some points or it may seems like an endless piece However, this is only my personal taste so I don't know whether my advice is good or not
Regards!

[deteresa]

Cool, thanks guys. Yes I compose pretty much everything I play. If this ever makes it to recording, I think I will shorten it up a bit and add more "high points".

[joshwalden]

Sounds great .. what did you use for the backing track -- i.e. the palmas, the compas? Do you have a program or did you just find tracks of flamenco compas?

[deteresa]

Thanks Josh, I made it myself by recording different tracks of me doing palmas and layering them together. It was a track that I used for an Alegrias on my CD, I just sped it up a little bit for the Bulerias por Solea.

[Frontera]

Very well done and enjoyable beautiful easy listening. My preference would be to roughen it up a little, but this is not a criticism, just my preference. I would add some dynamics and pauses to give the Bulerias feel, as to me I hear more Solea and less Bulerias, however this may be your style and interpretation and that is what flamenco is, expressing what you feel, not what the listener prefers. I like the fact it wasn't another parrot performance. Keep at it, you have the right idea trying to develop original performances.

[deteresa]

Sam,
Thanks for the kind words and helpful critiques. It means a lot to me. What I have recently realized is that I've been on a wild goose chase trying to get a Flamenco tone out of that guitar. It's just not happening, the guitar even though it "looks" like a Flamenco is really just a poor classical with cypress back and sides And it weighs about a ton.

BUT I don't have to worry about that anymore because a luthier friend of mine, Richard Cogger, gave me a GREAT guitar in exchange for a few lessons (very generous). He made it as a replica of a Ramirez 1a and it has more Flamenco character in one string than 10 of my other guitar!!!! I'm crazy about it.
I'll try to upload a recording in the near future.