One of the reasons Flamenco has its unique sound is that it is very guitar oriented: there are three notes on five of the six strings at each position, which naturally emphasizes triple meter in compas and falsetas (the most important palos i.e. 6/8, 3/4 meters) as opposed to duple meter (2/4,4/4). Flamenco also uses diatonic scales (like classical). but with the emphasis on the Phrygian mode I mention in "Music Theory for Flamenco"... (So Flamenco is "triatonic" in a sense - it uses major, minor, and Phrygian application of the Circle of Fifths)...
In the same sense that the black keys of the piano emphasize pentatonic, which also affects electric guitar with a pick (two notes per pattern, up-down pick strokes), making electric more natural for that art.
(There is much more to say about this, of course, but way too technical to discuss here, IMO, but I do discuss some of it on my site)....
OTH, this may make sense only to me........:-)
Last edited by BuleriaChk; 05-15-2012 at 10:00 AM.
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