New soleá falseta collection

[NormanKliman]

Hi everyone,

I’ve just completed work on a new soleá falseta collection for those interested in flamenco guitar.

I’ve had a website online since the late 1990s with free resources that will be of interest to nylon-string guitarists. There’s a page of guitar exercises that anyone can benefit from, whether or not you play flamenco. Here’s a link to the homepage: http://www.canteytoque.es/ (notice that it’s http, not https).

Falsetas are short ideas heard before, between and after flamenco singing, or the building blocks of instrumental flamenco guitar, and soleá is a style of flamenco. The material I’m selling consists of over 80 falsetas in standard notation and tablature and audio recordings of me playing the falsetas. The scores are in a single PDF file of standard notation and tablature and the audios are individual MP3 files. The PDF includes six pages of notes to help you with the technical issues of each falseta, and the PDF and the audios include 15 cierres, which are closing phrases played over beats 7–10 of the 12-beat compás (rhythm).

I’ve already published three falseta collections that focus on historical recordings of the best flamenco guitarists in the styles of soleá, siguiriya and bulería. I released those collection with the aim of representing as accurately and objectively as possible the playing of flamenco’s best guitarists from the past, for which I used the original recordings. This new collection is more personal, as it’s all about the soleá falsetas I play after living in Spain for over 30 years. Of the 80+ falsetas, 30 or so are mine and the rest are my versions of the falsetas of others, from Ramón Montoya to Paco de Lucía, some of which I’ve changed considerably and others not so much.

Here’s the link to the the new falseta collection:
http://www.canteytoque.es/falsetacollectionNew_i.htm

Norman

[Fraz]

Hi Norman! Great to hear about your new release, congrats on producing this... I'll check this out
May be useful to record a video of yourself performing these so prospective buyers can get a quick feel for what you are offering?

[NormanKliman]

Hi Fraz,

May be useful to record a video of yourself performing these so prospective buyers can get a quick feel for what you are offering?

That’s a good idea. I spent a few months putting the collection together and had to stop about three weeks ago to turn my attention to a big project that came in through my regular job (I’m a freelance translator). Once that was out of the way, I spent another week or so focusing on the remaining details, especially on triple-checking the transcriptions and getting better takes of the audio recordings. When I finished that, I figured it’d be better to put the collection up for sale straight away, just to make better use of the free time from my regular job. But making a video is a good idea. I’ve made very few videos and have shared even fewer with friends over the years. In the next week or two, I’ll be focusing on recording and transcribing a bulería falseta of mine that’s based on an old Christmas carol (villancico) that people used to sing here in Jerez, but I should have plenty of free time over the holidays to make a video sample of the falsetas from the new collection.

I don’t have a good camera, though. Here’s a video that came out okay a few weeks ago. I'm at home and in pajamas, so it’s just okay for sharing with friends but not for commercial purposes. As you know, it’s the rhythmless taranta style, and the falseta and the cierre at the end are part of a study I did three years ago on a peculiar cierre heard in historical recordings of granaínas, tarantas and mineras.

Here’s the video:
http://canteytoque.es/levante01.mp4

And here’s the study it’s related to:
http://canteytoque.es/cierrelevantino.htm

[Chromatic Nomad]

Thanks for making these falsettas available, I cant wait to check them out!!


NM

[NormanKliman]

Hi again,

I’ve uploaded to my website almost half of the audios of the new falseta collection, along with brief descriptions of each. You can click on the links and listen to the falsetas. Hope you like them!

http://canteytoque.es/falsetacollectionNew_i.htm