00:00:06professional flamenco guitar player from
00:00:08Montreal Dominic sula Dominic tell me
00:00:11how many years you’ve been playing the
00:00:13guitar I’ve been playing flamenco guitar
00:00:16for 10 years but I’ve played all sorts
00:00:18of different styles before that like
00:00:20over the last 20 years I guess even more
00:00:22why do you choose the flamenco guitar
00:00:25because it’s very physical it’s a very
00:00:28intense music and it’s the best way I
00:00:32found myself to express myself is there
00:00:35a difference between the flamenco guitar
00:00:37and the classic guitar plumbing co
00:00:39guitar is very more intense more a bit
00:00:41more violent aggressive has a lots of
00:00:45it’s much more there’s a lot of dynamic
00:00:50strong soft lots of rhythm guitar lots
00:00:53of free playing so it’s very different
00:00:57yes do you need to know how to read
00:00:59music no you don’t for any kind of music
00:01:02you don’t need to read music now and but
00:01:05flamenco is an oral tradition so I
00:01:09learned by the traditional way is by
00:01:12copying the person in front of you they
00:01:15show it something to you and you try to
00:01:17copy it they have a special exercise
00:01:21that you have to do every day
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00:01:28flamenco thumb goes
00:01:31you rest on the string below so it’s
00:01:34very typical for from the flamenco
00:01:36guitar to do this kind of sound I’m
00:01:42compared to this so I practice that
00:01:47these are Li Gatos from the left hand
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00:01:53before breakfast I do that how many
00:01:56different styles of reedham exists the
00:01:58flamenco’s they like to say there’s 80
00:02:00different styles but actually there’s
00:02:02five or six and all the other ones are
00:02:06derived from these five or six basic
00:02:10rhythms do you have a special treatment
00:02:12for your nails so I put crazy glue to
00:02:15harden the nails and also some Kleenex
00:02:18that gives it a thicker texture so my
00:02:23nails do not break because I play very
00:02:24hard with the dancing like this all the
00:02:27time so my natural nails would not
00:02:29actually survive this kind of treatment
00:02:31what qualities do you need to become a
00:02:34flamenco guitar player first of all you
00:02:38need to be a bit obsessive or a very
00:02:42passionate about it that’s the first
00:02:44thing and after that if you need rhythm
00:02:47lots of rhythm to be open you need to be
00:02:50able to learn really fast and memorize
00:02:52very fast because also the dancing we
00:02:56learn the dance as we go on we don’t
00:02:58write we don’t choreograph on paper or
00:03:00whatever we just we invent and we
00:03:03memorize all the time so you need good
00:03:05memory we know that that we saw that
00:03:07answer before but the musicians also
00:03:09know how to dance so no no no no that’s
00:03:14no no dancing ok so you as cheetah for
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