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Farruca is a melodic style in minor tonality, usually played in A minor key. Learn the fist steps in techniques such arpeggio and rasgueo in a musical context.
p m i, arpeggio, thumb, rasgueoIf you've decided finally to learn flamenco guitar this piece must be your first step. Learn some variations of the toque of Solea and introduce you in concepts such as thumb, golpe, cierre, etc.
Thumb, thumb-index, golpe, tapBulería is a fast flamenco rhythm in 12 beats.
buleria, flamenco, rhythm, nylon, Paco de...A brief falseta of bulerías for increasing your repertoire and knowledge of "compás".
Melodic thumb, alzapua, rasgueoThe Alegria belongs to the "cantiñas" group. It is a "gaditan" style, precedent from Cadiz and the Bahia's ports. It first was born as dance music.
alegrias, strumming, flamenco, nylon,...In this series we will discuss the origin of 'tangos'.
Flamenco, Tango, Spain, AndaluciaLet's continue exploring the origin of tangos.
Tangos, Flamenco, Andalucia, Spanish, Paco...In the second issue of this series of rasgueo exercises we are going to work on the independence of fingers, doing some exercises that changes the order of the attacks.
Rasgueo
Let's go to see a theme of farruca. The piece have a little introduction, and the tempo changes at the moment the rasgueados enters.
farruca, acoustic, rasgueados
A toque that never can be missing in a concert or in a flamenco party: bulerÃas. BulerÃas is a more rhythmic toque, with more accent variations and energy of flamenco repertoire.
Rasgueo, thumb, rasqueadoLet's continue exploring the origin of tangos.
Tangos, Flamenco, Andalucia, Spanish, Paco...In this series we will discuss the origin of 'tangos'.
Flamenco, Tango, Spain, Andalucia
The Granainas comes from the region of Granada in the south of Spain. It is a free form and has no strickt tempo and you can play each part as you want, with your own feeling. Al Christie shows how!
Granainas, Granaina, Spain, free form,...
Malagenas comes from Malaga in the south of Spain. I started with a basic one that people with no knowledge of Flamenco could at least play the melodic parts, before trying the Rasgueados (brushing the strings with the right hand).
flamenco, malaga, Malagenas, Rasgueados,...
Al Christie shows you typical chords and techniques such as fingerpicking, rasqueados, rasqueados followed by thumb (etc.) in this first Flamenco lesson at guitarmasterclass!
rasqueados, rasgueados, flamenco, fingerpicking
Al Christie gives an introduction to a Traditional Solea which is a basic form of Flamenco. Includes a few Falsetas(melodic parts), Rasgueados(brushing fingers across the strings) and special thumb and picking techniques.
Traditional Solea, solea, flamenco.falsetas,...