 | Yupanqui, Atahualpa - El Indio Y La Quena Guitar solo (with tabs) |
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| Composer : | Yupanqui, Atahualpa (1908 - 1992) | ||
| Instrumentation : | Guitar solo (with tabs) | ||
| Style : | Folk | ||
| Key : | D minor | ||
| Arranger : Publisher : | Rubarth, Lutz | ||
| Copyright : | Public Domain | ||
| Added by lrubarth, 28 Feb 2018 According to the list of studio recordings (www.atacris.com & www.discogs.com) Atahualpa Yupanqui recorded this beautiful piece only once in 1970 for the french label "Le Chant Du Monde" and it was released on the album "Guitare des Andes". When I first transcribed "El indio y la quena" I noticed that there are quite a lot of nice and rich harmonies that I couldn't find or reach on my guitar while playing the melody, so I harmonized the original melody by using the best fitting bass notes available. This first arrangement is quite easy to play and I guess that most people wouldn't notice a big difference to the original version. However, I recently revised and tryed to improve my transcription, but at first I still didn't understand how Yupanqui could play the melody and at the same time use those mysterious and for my hands inaccessable chords. I thought it might be possible that he used some kind of magic guitar tuning, but I didn't find a tuning that would solve the mystery and allow me to play all the original harmonies along with the melody. In the beginning it seemed quite improbable to me, but after listening to his recording again and again I have come to the conclusion that at least some or maybe even all of the harmonies in the accompaniment were played by a second guitar (two-track-recording). At first I didn't really believe in this duet theory because it sounds pretty much like a solo guitar piece and (as far as I know!) he only recorded very few duets (e.g. "La Cacharpaya"), but after analyzing the recording of "El indio y la quena" very carefully I'm quite sure that it's true. Not only are there several unplayable combinations of high melody notes and low bass notes, and a few other mysterious effects, but another aspect that supports this theory is the observation that "El indio y la quena" was recorded 1970 in the same studio, and it was released on the same record as the duet "La Cacharpaya". So I created a version for two guitars which might come very close to what you hear on Yupanqui's original recording from 1970. Also, in the latest newly revised version of my solo guitar transcription I tried to include the original harmonies and I think I managed to get pretty close to Atahualpa Yupanqui's original (two-track-) recording. PS: By the way, when I recentely listened to Roberto Aussels recording of this piece I noticed that his version definetely sounds like a duet, too. Then a friend looked it up and told me that the credits list of Aussels album "La paloma enamorada" mentions the name of a second performer: Bénédicte Fretaud (!). The version of Carlos Martínez is a solo guitar arrangement though... ;) | |||
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