kaznie_NL22nd November 2008Thanks Sergio, just as always you play with a very nice technique!
Kuba Szafran22nd November 2008That's so cool Sergio! Great lesson:)!
Kristofer Dahl22nd November 2008Very cool Sergio - I have never thought of practicing this way!
Sinisa Cekic22nd November 2008So interesting exercise,well done !
Emir Hot22nd November 2008very cool and useful exercise. Great lesson
Ivan Milenkovic22nd November 2008Essential technique Sergio, great job mate
Sergio Dorado22nd November 2008Thanks! Really, if you are interested in flamenco music you must practise this kind of exercises- In other words, is impossible to play flamenco without good strumming technique.
Gerardo Siere22nd November 2008Hey I should do that, another side efect of practicing rasgeados i that you develop speed, this is cause it is easier to close the hand than to open, with rasgeados you strech your finger.
- Gerardo Siere22nd November 2008
Ah me olvide de una pregunta y la pongo en español, como se "traba" el meñique para que junte fuerza antes de rasguear.
I forgot to ask something, how do we "lock" the meñique so it gains strenght before we play. 
Bogdan Radovic22nd November 2008Excellent approach Sergio!
- Sergio Dorado22nd November 2008
[/quote Ah me olvide de una pregunta y la pongo en español, como se "traba" el meñique para que junte fuerza antes de rasguear.
I forgot to ask something, how do we "lock" the meñique so it gains strenght before we play.]
I put all the four fingers (little, ring, middle and index) resting on thumb., making a barrier. This way each finger plays with strenght.
El pulgar es el dedo desde el que deben salir los otros cuatro, formando una especie de barrera para que salgan con más fuerza; como cuando tiramos un papel o una canica. Hay gente que no puede coger los cuatro dedos con el pulgar, pero inténtalo estrechándolos un poco. - Sergio Dorado22nd November 2008
The key is to bend the thumb for make this barrier. You can see it in the last angle of videos.
La clave está en doblar en pulgar para formar esa barrera; no hay que poner el pulgar recto. Puedes verlo mejor en el último ángulo de los videos. 
Jose Mena22nd November 2008Man, this will probably help me, I tried one of your Rasgueo lessons before, and could not manage to do it right, My right hand without a pick is very sloppy. I have little control over timing specially when using the using the thumb to hold the other fingers before I let them go down. Or is this not what you are supposed to do?
- Sergio Dorado22nd November 2008QUOTEMan, this will probably help me, I tried one of your Rasgueo lessons before, and could not manage to do it right, My right hand without a pick is very sloppy. I have little control over timing specially when using the using the thumb to hold the other fingers before I let them go down. Or is this not what you are supposed to do?
I don´t understand very well.
Yes, I hold all fingers that will be play, before they start to go down. - Déjà vu22nd November 2008
This was a great idea for a lesson! I attempted your Rasgueo lessons a few days ago, but I couldn't get the technique right (I just got an acoustic). Your timing with this lesson "es muy perfecto."
Dejan Farkas22nd November 2008Great exercises, thanks Sergio
Nazgul22nd November 2008Very interesting lesson, Sergio! Well done!
Hisham Al-Sanea22nd November 2008nice technique Sergio.very interesting
Nemanja Filipovic23rd November 2008Useful things here,and esential.Thanks man.
Carlos Carrillo24th November 2008wow Sergio! very interesting!!!!
Marcus Siepen25th November 2008very cool lesson, I have to try this
Kosei Kubota28th November 2008This is great!
I will work on it myself.
I can't wait to see the following lessons.
valentino1st December 2008I don't play flamenco but my uncle is on it, and I know how difficult it is.
MAKINAAAA!!!!- lola9th June 2009
crazy interesting
- lola11th June 2009
I hope that very soon new excercises will be given here!! Thanks a lot, i love them, sergio!
Lola 
Jesse7th August 2009Duuuude look at his pinky!
Nice playing!
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Technique Exercises 2
left hand dexterity , one finger per fret approach , right hand thumb positioning , right hand alternate picking, right hand mutingby Bogdan Radovic - Difficulty2
Technique Exercises 1
left hand dexterity , one finger per fret approach , right hand thumb positioning , right hand alternate picking, right hand mutingby Bogdan Radovic - Difficulty3
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left hand dexterity , one finger per fret approach , right hand thumb positioning , right hand alternate picking, right hand mutingby Bogdan Radovic - Difficulty3
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Hello GMCers. Today I started a series of five lessons dedicated exclusively to a very special technique: rasgueos. Strumming guitar is a thing that exists in all kinds of styles that have a guitar, because it is an effective way to keep in time and to mark the harmony context.
But I think it's not a lie to assert that it's in flamenco music where strumming reaches the highest level. This is due to the fact that flamenco (as many styles in guitar) have a popular character, and, in the specific case of this kind of music, there are many palos or musical forms that you mark the compás with rasgueos. It means, if you are accompanying a cantaor or singer, you have a double function: as a guitarist and as a percussionist. And the unique technique that have the two ways is strumming.
Today I present 10 formulas or exercises (of a total of 50 that have the series) that I hope will be useful to improve this technique. I recommend to think first of the rhythm, and after that, which fingers or kind of movement is necessary to play the rhythm that you have thought of. And a second tip: practice every rasgueo independently, but also like it would form part of a theme, in this case, from exercise 1 to 10, consecutively, like in a whole piece.
Ok, see you soon!
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