Shake it before using – 2018 – 141 pages – Lecture notes Self edition
“A METHOD TO COMPOSE MAGIC SESSIONS“
“Experience shows us a critical point: one can never see the whole. What we see is limited by our experiences,
our beliefs and our assumptions.” Gabi Pareras
Gabriel Pareras preparesd and presented this work at “Jornadas Cartomágicas del Tetrato Encantado in 2018”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: THE CREATIVE METHOD IN FIVE STEPS
- 1st Step: Selecting the material
- Possible criteria
- Recommended number of routines
- Other proposals
- Association and letters
- 2nd Step: Sequences of three routines
- 3rd Step: Order “in crescendo”
- Step 4: Viability of the sequences
- Step 5: Combining sequences
- 1st Step: Selecting the material
- PART TWO: THE CREATIVE METHOD IN ACTION
- 1st Step: Selecting the material
- 2nd Step: Sequences of three routines
- 3rd Step: Order “in crescendo”
- Step 4: Viability of the sequences
- 1st Sequence: Adding games to the sequence: Grand finale with royal flush – Supreme transposition – The Keops sandwich – The question mark
- 2nd Sequence: Versioning games: Miraculous coincidence – How wonderful! – Spelling
- 3rd Sequence: Technique as welding – Zen aces – Simple poker demonstration (Optical poker) – The champ (The Hamilton routine)
- 4th Sequence: The use of the generic: Say stop! – Instant travel of aces (Aces 1002) – Follow the leader
- 5th Sequence: Do you want to try?
- THIRD PART: 5TH STEP I: FOR TWO SEQUENCES OF 20 MINUTES
- Impromptu Session: On a magic “streak” – Gambler’s magic – I’m on a “streak”
- Session with prior ordering: Tell me who you are “calling” – The “calling” effect – Tell me who you hang out with…
- FOURTH PART: 5º STEP II: COMPLETE MAGIC SESSION
- Four sequences in action
- Putting titles
- Order “in crescendo” again
- Welding between sequences
- A few words before starting
- The whole magic session
- Taking inventory
- PART FIVE PRINCIPLES AND METHODS
- Routine classification
- “Secret compartment“ routines
- Deck switches
- Technical
- In the context of a routine
- Conditioning factors
- Final considerations
- How to figure out the order
- From the order of departure
- Deducting the final order
- Noticing the equivalences
- Looking for properties
- PART SIX: ROTUINES AND VERSIONS
- Supreme transposition
- The Keops sandwich
- I have as many as you …
- Optical poker
- The Hamilton routine
- Aces 1002 (Instant Travel of Aces)
- Follow the leader (2 phases)
- A coin and a marker
- SEVENTH PART: TECHNICAL VARIATIONS
- Dai Vernon’s key card control
- Partial faro shuffle with residue
- Double color change
- Without a trace
- Classic version
- Stuart Gordon’s DL
- Secret turns over when squaring the extension
- Bottom replacement of palm card with crimp
- Simultaneous appearance of four cards
- Forcing with the elevator shuffle
- DL with snap on the table
- Full false elevator shuffle
- Secret turnover of the bottom card
- PART EIGHT: ANNEXES
- Definition of the effects
- Pure impromptus category
- The Champ of the cut routine
- Location in quartets
- Three routines of “chosen card”
- The reverse count
- The card on the sword
- A. Fisher’s sandwich
- Conclusions
- FINAL WORDS
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