As we continue our lessons on the rumba flamenca in A minor, we have now come to a section where we are doing something really interesting and fun with the rhythm!
In this week’s lesson, I am going to teach you a beautiful chord progression from beginning section of “Será Verdad,” by El Maestro from Córdoba, Vicente Amigo! This is Part I of a series for this song.
Have you ever wondered how guitarists make simple melodies come alive with chords? Have you ever wanted to take a simple song-line and be able to accompany it with chords?
Now that you’ve been exposed to the basic rumba rhythm (from previous lessons), and now that you’ve learned at least one or two falsetas for the rumba in A minor, now I want to teach you three fiery falsetas in one lesson!
You’ve probably heard this iconic falseta (flamenco riff) for the malagueña before; in fact, you may already know some iteration of it. It seems like—at least in my experience—that when someone is asked to play something “Spanish-sounding” on the guitar...
In this lesson for the flamenco guitar, I will show you how to play two very energetic falsetas for the compás of rumba! I will warn you, it’s going to be a gople frenzy!
In this lesson, I want to show you a very popular falseta for the compás of Soleares; it’s a rather basic falseta—that is, “basic” to the extent that its a...
Have you been wondering how to read tablature? Or do you know how to read, but there are some things you see sometimes in TABs that you don't understand? Well, you might not know this, but...
Alzapua is a technique for the flamenco guitar that a lot of players ask about; and rightly so…it’s a pretty cool technique!I mean, when you listen to it for the first time, you’d swear that you’re hearing the work of at least two fingers, but no…alzapua is done with just and upward and downward movement of the thumb!
