Jorge Morales: Transcript

Mexican guitarist
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I grew up in Mexico City, and my neighbor, he has a guitar. And he always, in the evenings, he used to get up and sit in front of his door and play the guitar, and I used to just watch and listen. So, finally one day he asked me if I want to learn, and I said “Yeah.” So, he lend me his guitar for two days. And he only showed me on the guitar the key of A minor, E minor, and D minor. I went down my house and started playing along with the radio and the records. I give him his guitar two days later, and eventually we, later on, I got the opportunity to buy a used guitar. And I started learning it more by playing along with the radio or with the record player.

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I came in Iowa years ago; there was the home welcome when I first came. And also the people in Iowa are very, very kind. And it reminded me of the people from my hometown.

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Some songs they have made to play in different rhythms. So, other rhythms would be like a waltz, PLAYING; or tango, PLAYING; or corrido, PLAYING; or huapango, PLAYING; or jarocho, PLAYING; or rock and roll, PLAYING. You can put one song into a different rhythms. An example, just like--the original song, this song that I’m going to play is like a waltz. The first time it came out was: PLAYING/SINGING. Later on they came up and they worked it up as a bolero, PLAYING/SINGING. So now we, the group that we playing now, we changed the rhythm. So now we play it ourselves, we play it: PLAYING/SINGING. So, here again, you can change something to fit the type of music that you wish to play. PLAYING/SINGING.