Ī shorter version was included in the November 1996 album Pavarotti & Friends for War Child. The collaboration was an instant success. They resort to many guitar performance techniques and fingerstyles, such as drumming guitar tops, strumming, bare thumb plucking, palm muting, tremolo picking, hammer-ons and pull-offs, sweep picking, vibratos, and glissandos.
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However, it poses technical difficulties due to the speed and precision required of Di Meola's picking on the steel-stringed guitar, playing melodic phrases, and to Paco De Lucia's fingerpicking on the flamenco guitar, as well as the exact matching of Di Meola and De Lucía's solos which frequently consist of them both playing a rapid set of matching or corresponding notes. Listen to Mediterranean Sundance / Rio Ancho (Live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - December 1980) MP3 Song by Al Di Meola from the album Friday.
A prolific composer and prodigious six-string talent, Di Meola has amassed over 20 albums as a leader while collaborating on a dozen or so others with the likes of the fusion supergroup. The collaborative version of the song consists of a relatively simple lyrical harmonic progression adorned by a flamenco rhythm. A bona fide guitar hero and perennial poll-winner, Al Di Meola has been recognized internationally over the past four decades as virtuoso of the highest order. It was performed live in San Francisco] on December 5, 1980, and the set was released by Columbia as Friday Night in San Francisco. In 1980, Paco de Lucia and Al Di Meola collaborated and produced an ensemble track composed of Di Meola's " Mediterranean Sundance" from his 1977 album Elegant Gypsy with "Río Ancho". The track first featured on Paco de Lucia's 1976 album Almoraima. The original performances of the song had notable flute solos towards the end of the piece, reminiscent of classic Spanish gypsy music with trumpets. The piece is in the key of E minor and progresses to A minor, D, G, C and B7. "Río Ancho" is a Spanish flamenco guitar piece that combines flamenco and gypsy jazz influences.
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