Baroque Flamenco (RHYTHM)
Start with Harps Tuned in C (but we’ll play in Aminor)
[HTL-69-210408 – HARP TIME LIVE #69– Thu. Apr. 8, 2021
In which we went on another field trip to Somerset Square virtual festival site and learned to play the Mexican Triple-Waltz RHYTHM of Baroque Flamenco.
We played in Aminor. We followed a basic form to build the rhythm:
- Play the chord as simple TRIADS: Am-G-F-E (with spelling E-A-B … or raise your G to G# and play E-G#-B)
- Arpeggiate them on beats 1-2 & 3 of each measure
- Add 8th notes to the first measure, playing A-C-E-A-C-E (and emphasizing the “A” notes)
- Play the 2nd measure with only quarters: G – B – D
- Add 8th notes to the 3rd measure: F-A-C-F-A-C
- Play the 4th measure as a ‘crunch’: just play all the notes together (E-A-B)
- Rinse & Repeat steps 3-6 above
- Then …. we got a little more tricky! But you’ll have to watch the replay for that OR …
- Sign up for the BAROQUE FLAMENCO 5-DAY CHALLENGE for what we did next
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where you’ll learn other Blueprints like the Baroque Flamenco Blueprint
or “Baroque Flamenco Beyond the Page”
where you can learn to add the rhythms, strumming techniques, etc. to take this piece to the next level.
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The Chat Feed (click to open)
16:28:44 From Sharon-Brownell to Everyone : much better!
16:29:04 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : I can’t hear
16:29:36 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : I figured it out. I can hear now.
16:31:07 From Nancy-Cochran to Everyone : Yes. On Zoom in Somerset Field Trip.
16:31:24 From Tovelah to Everyone : Yes, with you
16:31:55 From Betty Herloski to DHC(Direct Message) : I went to Sommerset and it sent me zoom
16:32:32 From Sandy to Everyone : I tried Somerset Square but my audio won’t join…
16:33:06 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles to Everyone : It doesn’t ever let me join Harp Time Live…didn’t work last week either….but other places work.
16:33:24 From Lyn-Thompson to Everyone : This is so cool!
16:33:38 From MARIA-WILSON to Everyone : my screen keeps flashing…I see two of Heather…Harpie 2
16:33:48 From Tovelah to Everyone : YES
16:33:57 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : Where do we sign up for the challenge?
16:34:05 From Sandy to Everyone : My harp time live is working but the Somerset square audio won’t join
16:34:33 From MARIA-WILSON to Everyone : too much echoing
16:34:44 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : The sound is super echoey. will that be fixed for the festivale?
16:34:48 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : festival?
16:34:51 From Sandy to Everyone : Yes mine echoes too.
16:35:02 From Sandy to Everyone : I’m giving up
16:36:16 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : If we click leave, will that take us back to the Somerset Festival? I think I went to harptime live through that.
16:36:29 From Lynne-Lapidus to Everyone : yes
16:36:31 From Joke-Verdoold to Everyone : Like last week, no sound for me in this class.
16:36:37 From Stacie Link to Everyone : Sounds fine
16:36:42 From Lynne-Lapidus to Everyone : yes echo
16:36:42 From Yael Yaniv Perry to Everyone : no
16:36:46 From MARIA-WILSON to Everyone : yes
16:37:18 From Sarah%20-Harpie2 to Everyone : Joke je moet de audio opnieuw aanzetten. Dat geeft deze aan.
16:37:32 From Betty Herloski to DHC(Direct Message) : I can sign! ASL intrepeter
16:37:32 From Lynne-Lapidus to Everyone : Kathy is echoing, too
16:37:39 From Stefanie-Bieber to Everyone : I opened the chat window and don’t get it closed again
16:37:54 From MARIA-WILSON to Everyone : maybe you need to keep muting everyone all the time
16:38:36 From Tina-Scholz to Everyone : I can’t hear Deborah speaking. I see she’s talking
16:38:40 From Lynne-Lapidus to Everyone : the echo was because I was in both. I closed Zoom and now it is OK
16:39:00 From Heather-Flinn to Everyone : Hi I made it into the square this time!
16:39:26 From Nancy-Cochran to Everyone : Am in Zoom – have no camera.
16:39:26 From Betty Herloski to DHC(Direct Message) : Safari doesn’t do audio from sommerset
16:39:41 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : 1
16:39:44 From Nancy-Cochran to Everyone : 5
16:39:47 From Sally to Everyone : Smoother for me
16:39:50 From Tara-O%27Brien%20Pride to Everyone : Just got here. Much better this week so far.
16:39:58 From Stefanie-Bieber to Everyone : went smooth
16:40:11 From Stacie Link to Everyone : It was quicker but I am still going to have to download Firefox or chrome
16:40:17 From Tovelah to Everyone : very direct compared to last time
16:40:17 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : It was the same as last time, but no sound in the classroom
16:40:29 From MARIA-WILSON to Everyone : Way better this time…but the feed is very staticy right now
16:40:30 From Gail-McEwen to Everyone : It worked perfectly for us, Mary and Gail, today! Right away!
16:40:34 From Lauri%20-Craig to Everyone : just cannot see everyone on gallery view
16:40:37 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : Joke, I had to put my “me” into the harpzoom. Then I had to click on join audio. Twice. The second time, a window pops up that asks me if I want to use my computer sound. Then I can hear harptime live.
16:40:38 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles to Everyone : It was essentially the same. But I had more issues this time. I couldn’t get Harp Time Live to work through Zoomerset last week or now.
16:40:40 From Heather-Flinn to Everyone : better for me as I am here – wherever that is but it keeps telling me I can’t use Safari as a browser!
16:40:43 From Margie-Bekoff to Everyone : How do I remove the chat window once I’ve opened it?
16:40:49 From Ruth-Shepherd to Everyone : how dow we get rid of this chat box?
16:41:00 From Jane-Ilmola to Everyone : changing my browser to chrome helped but couldn,t put my picture on this time
16:41:01 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : I don’t know if that will solve it for you. I have a Mac and I am on Chrome.
16:41:04 From Ruth-Shepherd to Everyone : Yes Margie
16:41:10 From Gail-McEwen to Everyone : Your sound for us is perfect. We are on a desktop connected to cable connection. Perfect!
16:41:20 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : When I went out of the meeting, my screen blanked out. Ihad to push escape.
16:41:41 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : Then I came back to zoomerset and went into the harptime live box.
16:41:52 From Nancy-Cochran to Everyone : Camera does not work with this interface.
16:41:57 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : I get the message that I need to use a different brower. The ones that are named are the ones that my computer system doen’t trust and don’t let me use. I just work on Safari.
16:42:32 From MARIA-WILSON to Everyone : sound is bad
16:42:48 From Stefanie-Bieber to Everyone : sound is good over here
16:43:05 From Anne-Horton to Everyone : Maria – in what way is the sound bad for you?
16:43:16 From DHC to Everyone : Https://www.hipharp.com/bfchallenge
16:43:20 From MARIA-WILSON to Everyone : Im on a pc but there is some kind of broken speaking problem from the Somerset portal
16:43:24 From Anne-Horton to Everyone : There is no echo – which is awesome!!
16:43:48 From Nancy-Cochran to Everyone : I am in Zoomerset 5 – this interface does not allow by camera.
16:44:15 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : I am good now, by the way. Just made notes in case that is useful.
16:45:10 From MARIA-WILSON to Everyone : I going to the Zoom link directly…this isn’t working for me…… here
16:46:19 From Tara-O%27Brien%20Pride to Everyone : Ah, I figured out how to hide the chat within Somerset. With chat window open, I see “more” (with three dots) below and left of chat. Click on More and then click on Chat—and it gets minimized.
16:47:43 From Carol Henley to Everyone : I got in late, are we tune
16:47:56 From Carol Henley to Everyone : Iignore above
17:00:45 From Tara-O%27Brien%20Pride to Everyone : Technical note: my laptop on Zoom knows not to put the display to sleep…but not here through Somerset! I had to change my laptop power settings.
17:01:05 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : It’s all the same in different combinations
17:01:08 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : It helped when you said 4 down.
17:01:24 From O.-Anna to Everyone : The chords are a downward scale
17:01:37 From Harpie 2 to Everyone : For me is the baseline down,
17:01:39 From Lyn-Thompson to Everyone : just keep the rhythm
17:01:39 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : Yes!
17:01:45 From Heather-Flinn to Everyone : descending triads until you hit the esus
17:01:54 From Carol Henley to Everyone : I stopped looking for notes and listened to what I was playing to get it
17:01:55 From Lynne-Lapidus to Everyone : it helped when you said twice as long
17:02:54 From Heather-Flinn to Everyone : I like the CRUNCH of the Esus!
17:02:56 From Lyn-Thompson to Everyone : I like the suspended 4th on each chordl
17:09:58 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles to Everyone : Hemiola, I think
17:10:35 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles to Everyone : ratio 3:2
17:11:10 From Heather-Flinn to Everyone : Yup!
17:11:49 From Heather-Flinn to Everyone : It always sounds like a medical condition
17:12:10 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles to Everyone : lol
17:13:58 From Joyce-Kraut to Everyone : i LOST VIDEO
17:16:29 From Lyn-Thompson to Everyone : is anyone having trouble keeping the video on the screen.. video keeps disappearing but I can still hear.
17:16:39 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles to Everyone : Hemiola
17:16:40 From Lynne-Lapidus to Everyone : me too
17:16:53 From Lynne-Lapidus to Everyone : somerset
17:16:58 From Tara-O%27Brien%20Pride to Everyone : Seems okay to me. I’m on Somerset.
17:17:01 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : In Harptime live on Zoom it’s ok
17:17:11 From Lyn-Thompson to Everyone : on somerset I think…but??
17:17:11 From Lynne-Lapidus to Everyone : ihave to keep moving my mouse to get it back
17:17:14 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : I’m going to go google Hemiola, Melinda. I always learn so much from you all.
17:17:16 From Carol Booth to Everyone : I left somerset because i had no audio, but have audio here on zoom harp time live
17:17:22 From Heather-Flinn to Everyone : Unbelievably no problems today… especially after last time.LOL
17:17:31 From Kathy-DeAngelo to Everyone : let me know if you’re on a mac ipad using safari
17:17:46 From Lisa-Cumming to Everyone : I didn’t have audio either. I went on with safari and it didn’t support anything. I had to come back and use chrome.
17:17:48 From Sarah to Everyone : i did go to Zoom because the connection is beter in Zoom for me.
17:17:48 From Carol Booth to Everyone : Yes on MacBook pro using Safari
17:17:58 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : I am on an iPad with Safari
17:18:00 From Stefanie-Bieber to Everyone : Those who have no audio probably missed to make a choice which mic is allowed to be used.
17:18:03 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : Lynne, is your computer set to go to sleep? I’m wondering if you turn that off, if you wouldn’t need to move your mouse?
17:18:06 From Gail-McEwen to Everyone : We are on ZOOMERSET 5. My computer has put the monitor to sleep here and there. It comes right back up with no problems. We are hard wired with Comcast on a desktop.
17:18:20 From Tara-O%27Brien%20Pride to Everyone : Your screen saver is probably kicking in to blank your screen. You can change your computers settings to allow more time before blanking.
17:18:24 From Kathy-DeAngelo to Everyone : That’s a known issue with Safari.
17:18:35 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : I couldn’t get in on Safari, Kathy.
17:18:44 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : Had to get on with Chrome
17:18:52 From Gail-McEwen to Everyone : Thank you!
17:18:55 From Stefanie-Bieber to Everyone : Yes, Safari doe not work, Firefox works
17:23:46 From Kathy-DeAngelo to Everyone : Carol: can you email me this sequence later? kathy@harpagency.com. Mac/Safari is a known issue. I’m looking at others comments and Mac/Chrome wasn’t an issue for some people. Zoom asks you to connect to audio on the way in.
17:24:39 From Kathy-DeAngelo to Everyone : Tara: thanks for thinking of the screen saver setting!
17:25:55 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone :
hem·i·o·la
/ˌhemēˈōlə/
nounMUSIC
noun: hemiola; plural noun: hemiolas
a musical figure in which, typically, two groups of three beats are replaced by three groups of two beats, giving the effect of a shift between triple and duple meter.
late Middle English: via medieval Latin from Greek hēmiolia ‘in the ratio of one and a half to one’ (from hēmi- ‘half’ + holos ‘whole’).
Translate hemiola to
Use over time for: hemiola
17:25:58 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : 😀
17:26:11 From Lyn-Thompson to Everyone : Thank you for breaking this down, this way… so easy to understand.
17:26:45 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : Can’t use Firefox it reads down my laptop
17:26:50 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : Little pieces that were familiar, like triads first
17:26:51 From Yael Yaniv Perry to Everyone : I love that there are endless possibilities to play the chords
17:26:52 From Lyn-Thompson to Everyone : Based on the chord structure… then the rhythim…
17:27:06 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : regular rhythm. Then the mexican waltz rhythm
17:27:18 From Betty Herloski to Everyone : Really helped me internalize time/tempo
17:27:21 From Lyn-Thompson to Everyone : then how to repeat.. etd
17:27:23 From Ruth-Shepherd to Everyone : loved how the left hand was so simple A-E-A yet when put together with the rhythm sounds complex
17:27:30 From Heather-Flinn to Everyone : super fun for every age ….just like happy happy Harpo I mean Hippo ….get as wild and complex or simple as you want
17:27:35 From Sarah to Everyone : It helped me that you explain the different rhythms you wanne play.
17:27:38 From Lauri%20-Craig to Everyone : fun and sooo different from anything else I’ve done!! THANKS
17:27:51 From Yael Yaniv Perry to Everyone : and that you give different ways to play and to play along with it
17:28:23 From Sheila Jaffe to Everyone : I could not get in on Somerset so I went through Zoom. So versatile and hypnotic – I wanted to keep going and going
17:28:43 From Carol Henley to Everyone : Wow! I feel like I was in a playing marathon. Thank you, D H-C for the mile markers —A, G, F etc
17:28:50 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : It invites to try out different combi’s
17:29:09 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : Is last week recording on hipharp?
17:29:21 From Evelyn G to Everyone : putting up the g# in one octave made improvising more fun if i could remember not to play it during the g chord
17:30:54 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : Great fun!!
17:31:02 From Tara-O%27Brien%20Pride to Everyone : Nice tip on playing 10ths to avoid the one G#.
17:31:14 From DHC to Everyone : Https://www.hipharp.com/bfchallenge
17:31:17 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : Is de challenge in Zoomerset?
17:32:34 From Lauri%20-Craig to Everyone : thanks DHC! have to leave – another ZOOM in 45 minutes!! See you next week!! LOVED THIS and THANKS KATHY1 somerset square is wonderful!!
17:32:55 From Tara-O%27Brien%20Pride to Everyone : Yay, Kathy!
17:32:55 From Karen-Taney to Everyone : thanks kathy
17:32:57 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles to Everyone : Thanks Kathy!
17:35:27 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : Why could we hear you speaking when we were in a private conversation?
17:36:50 From Yael Yaniv Perry to Everyone : thank you 🙂
17:36:54 From Tara-O%27Brien%20Pride to Everyone : Thank you, DHC!
17:37:10 From Lyn-Thompson to Everyone : Thank you!
17:37:29 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : Thank you!
17:37:35 From Kathy-DeAngelo to Everyone : Can somebody save the Chat txt and email it to me? kathy@harpagency.com
17:37:47 From Yael Yaniv Perry to Everyone : how do you do the slap after the glissando?
17:38:22 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone : Europe is in the late hours, so I wish you goodnight
17:38:36 From Tara-O%27Brien%20Pride to Everyone : Goodnight, Joke!
17:38:37 From Jan-Kingston to Everyone : good night Joke and everyone.
17:38:51 From Tovelah to Everyone : Thank you
17:46:04 From Heather-Flinn to Everyone : hi guys I have no mute or unmute
17:46:22 From Heather-Flinn to Everyone : I can hear you but can’t talk to you
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