Re: Calexico in High and Dry film, and hand-clapping

["jondrums" <jondrums@hotmail.com>]

Ever since spending 2.5 months in spain, I was totally absorbed by the
"palmas" style of clapping. I often encorporate this into my looping.
Usually I set up a semi-short loop (1-2 bars long) on the edp, and set
feedback to 0 and overdub on.  This has the effect of repeating everything 
I
do exactly once.  I switch every two bars between open palm and closed palm
clapping and basically play a duet with myself.  It takes a while to learn
how to compliment a rhythm by clapping "in-between" the other claps, but 
its
well worth it and really sounds cool.  Sometimes I'll do this while sitting
on a cajon, and things can get really cool...
Jon


> Hand-clapping (I believe it's called Palmas in flamenco music) would be 
>an
> interesting looping project for one musician to build on.  I've heard 
>some
> gypsy music live, and the polyrhythms can get to be very interesting, 
>with
> several playing the Palmas.  Has anyone ever done anything with this or
> flamenco?