by Jusquin » Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:04 pm
Hi, Amanda,
I'm happy to have discovered the Forum! By way of an introduction, I'm a former world language (French/Spanish) resource teacher for special ed students who were having trouble passing their language requirement for graduation. I enjoy all kinds of music, but grew up with classic rock (the Moody Blues, who inspired me to teach myself to play guitar). Somehow, between my love for guitar and my love for world languages, I discovered the Gipsy Kings and finally -- after years of thinking I could never do it -- with some encouragement I found in re-reading Canut's blog, I'm teaching myself to play rumba flamenca. It's an ongoing challenge. I've managed to get some of the strums down, but I get lost when I try to get up that speed. No "Aouiii, aouiii! Olé! Eso es!" for me yet, but I'm working on it!
(By the way, the video "La Chiquita Son Bonita" is also called "Ciento" ... but "Ciento" should be "Siento" because ciento means "percent" and siento means "I feel; I sense; I hear." "La Chiquita Son Bonita" should be "Las Chiquitas Son Bonitas" because son is plural, meaning "are." And the word at the end of the song, which I've seen as "wawaco" in online lyrics, is guaguancó, a Cuban rumba rhythm.)
Jusquin