🎸GET TABS + BACKING TRACKS: https://www.Patreon.com/Flamenco4U 📱TEXT BEN 4 HELP: 👉🏼 (949) 992-1102 👈🏼 _______________________ Struggling with a particular falseta for years or even decades is not uncommon for flamenco guitarists. If this sounds like you, don’t fret (pun intended)! In this guitar tutorial, I’ll dive into five reasons why your progre…

🎸GET TABS + BACKING TRACKS: https://www.Patreon.com/Flamenco4U 📱TEXT BEN 4 HELP: 👉🏼 (949) 992-1102 👈🏼 _______________________ In this lesson, we dive deeper into "Entre Dos Aguas," focusing on the extensive use of picado throughout the piece. If your fingers are starting to develop calluses, you’re not alone! We’ll be tackling some interesting and …

Learning how to improvise on flamenco guitar with the song"Entre Dos Aguas," by Paco De Lucía is actually easier than you might expect—especially if you are already a jazz or blues guitarist! Jazz and blues elements are introduced into this section through the incorporation of a pentatonic scale in the key of E minor. By using you prior knowledge a…

If you've ever delved into flamenco guitar technique and rhythm, you'll know that mastering the compás of rumba is a cornerstone skill. Yet, no matter how you approach it, you may have encountered a common challenge: the rhythmic patterns can feel repetitive and lackluster, leaving you yearning for more dynamism and flair in your playing. But don’t…

If you've ever tried to play the rumba on the flamenco guitar, you've probably realized that no matter how you choose to play the rhythm, there's a particular pattern that repeats itself every bar. Through your own experience, you may have found that your playing sounds dry and repetitive, which can be quite frustrating. No matter how well you play…

The rumba is a delightful rhythm to explore when initially learning flamenco guitar. As you may have already noticed, there are various variations of the rumba, including different strumming patterns. Honestly, it can be a bit overwhelming to decipher all the variations and intricate techniques involved in this particular flamenco compás. ...Howeve…

☎️Book a FREE Call w/ Me: https://bit.ly/2VgD0Df 🎸TABs 🎼 + Backing Tracks for this lesson: https://www.FlamencoGuitarClub.com 🔥My Flamenco Arpeggios Mini-Course: https://www.LearnTheFlamencoguitar.com ________ Welcome to "Flamenco Guitar Podcast," a show dedicated to the passionate world of flamenco guitar. In this episode, we take a little dive in…

I’m joined today by Mario Febres and Annie D’Orazio with the National Institute of Flamenco. Annie and Mario are here sharing important information about the Festival Flamenco Albuquerque in New Mexico, taking place June 9-17, 2023. It’s sure to be an event unlike any other in the U.S., with outstanding performances from top-level flamenco artists …

👉🎸TABs 🎼 for this lesson: https://www.Patreon.com/Flamenco4U 👉FREE Flamenco Guitar MiniCourse: https://LearnTheFlamencoguitar.com One strumming hand. Five fingers. So many possibilities for rasgueos, right? Here, in this tutorial, I will present to you 12 rasgueos that I think you should be familiar with. In fact, if these were the only rasgueos yo…

This is the first video tutorial in a series titled, "Fretboard Familiarity." In this tutorial, I will show you the chromatic scale; it's called that because fretting finger follows a chromatic path (i.e., C, C#, D, D#, E, F,F#,etc.). After completing this exercise, your fingers become more accustomed to the distance of the frets on the guitar--par…

Although most flamenco palos originated from the Southern portion of Spain in Andalusia, there are some exceptions. The palo (flamenco style) of Farruca is from in the northern region of Spain in Asturias, and was adapted into the flamenco repertoire by flamenco artists. The Farruca can be a solo piece for the guitar, and can also be played for can…

🎸TABs 🎼 for this lesson: https://www.Patreon.com/Flamenco4U FREE Flamenco Guitar MiniCourse: https://www.LearnTheFlamencoguitar.com Book a free call with me: ☎️ https://bit.ly/2VgD0Df 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 fre…

🎸TABs 🎼 for this lesson: https://www.Patreon.com/Flamenco4U FREE Flamenco Guitar MiniCourse: https://www.LearnTheFlamencoguitar.com 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 somethi…

☎️Book a FREE Call w/ Me: https://bit.ly/2VgD0Df 🎸TABs 🎼 + Backing Tracks for this lesson: https://www.FlamencoGuitarClub.com 🔥My Flamenco Arpeggios Mini-Course: https://www.LearnTheFlamencoguitar.com ________ I've made a lot of different videos on the Rumba over the years. The most popular video by far has been the very first video tutorial I ever…

¡Hola! Peteneras is a palo in the flamenco repertoires that is a bit melancholy--to put it mildly; and in this in-depth lesson, you will not only be learning Peteneras, but you will also learn the centuries-old Spanish folkloric song, "El Vito," which I have arranged together for you to enjoy. So grab you guitar and a cup of coffee, and let's get t…

When flamenco guitar students hear about the compás of Bulerías, they are usually told that this is the “hardest” of all the palos, but is this really the case? Is Bulerías the hardest palo in the flamenco repertoire? Well, if you ask me, I’d say that, “it depends.” Sure, the time signature of Bulerías (12/8) might seem strange at first, but if you…

You may have heard the beautiful guitar intro for the 2000 hit song performed by Toni Braxton, “Spanish Guitar.” This solo was performed by renowned studio guitarist, Dean Parks. Although Parks played this solo with a pick, I am going to show you how to play it with your fingers while using common flamenco guitar techniques, such as arpegio, picado…

☎️Book a FREE Call w/ Me: https://bit.ly/2VgD0Df 🎸TABs 🎼 + Backing Tracks for this lesson: https://www.FlamencoGuitarClub.com 🔥My Flamenco Arpeggios Mini-Course: https://www.LearnTheFlamencoguitar.com This lesson is set to be an exciting one…and an interesting one too! What you will learn in this lesson is how to play the Andalusian cadence in the …

Would you like me to show you how to get faster picado technique on the flamenco guitar? …Particularly in the fast picado section of “Entre Dos Aguas”? After completing this lesson, you’ll see the exact method I use to achieve faster picado on the flamenco guitar. The late, great, Paco de Lucía’s “Entre Dos Aguas” demonstrates his incredibly fast p…

I’m very excited to share with you this mega-ultra-awesome flamenco/Spanish guitar scale in E minor, which is so intense that it will give you HULK HANDS after you’ve mastered it! What’s this scale called? Well, I call it the “Escala de Gerardo” (Gerardo’s Scale), because I always heard that it was written by Gerardo Núñez; it may or may not have b…

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 falseta that most flamenco guitar players learn when they are first learning Soleares; it’s also basic in the sense that its a bit of a stock falseta, but the truth about this falseta is that it…

🎸TABs 🎼 for this lesson: https://www.Patreon.com/Flamenco4U FREE Flamenco Guitar MiniCourse: https://www.LearnTheFlamencoguitar.com Have you ever wanted to learn a beautiful-sounding falseta (riff) on the guitar that has that signature Spanish or Flamenco sound? Well, in this lesson I’ll show you how to play a falseta in A minor that you’ll not onl…

🎸TABs 🎼 + Backing Tracks for this lesson: https://www.Patreon.com/Flamenco4U My Flamenco Arpeggios Mini-Course: https://www.LearnTheFlamencoguitar.com In this fourth lesson on how to play the “Danza Mora,” you’ll get the chance to use your octave skills again, and you’ll learn a beautiful arabesque legado falseta. Get ready, because there will be m…

If by chance you are a finger-style guitar player, or have had some experience with finger-style guitar playing, then lesson # 3 for “Danza Mora” will be right up your alley! You will be using octaves between the first and fourth strings for your melody while accompanying that melody with some running eight-notes on the bass strings. (For an introd…

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! In this two-part lesson, I’ll…

I’ve taught you several falsetas for the rumba now (all at increasing levels of difficulty), but now you’re going to enjoy a little break from all the fast picado you saw in the last lesson. …And notice I said that it would be only a “little break.” Trust me. After the last falseta we went through, anything following that would rightfully be consid…

Now we’ve made it to the part of the song where things really start taking off. The figurative “launch pad” that Paco uses to boost the tempo and rhythmic intensity is a technique called alzapúa. With this technique, you will be using your thumb exclusively. Watch the lesson video to see in detail how it’s done. By the time we finish the lesson, yo…

In this video lesson for the flamenco guitar, one of our supporters, Yolanda, asks a really good question about the pulgar (thumb), and what to do with it when you are playing in E major. Quite often, we tend to rest our thumb on the E string (sixth string) when playing falsetas and chords, but sometimes our thumb can get in the way when we need to…

For this second lesson of “Danza Mora” for the flamenco guitar, you will be doing an upward arpeggio; it’s called an “upward” arpeggio because the plucking pattern runs toward you (the player). The arpeggio pattern is as follows: a&p-m-i, a-m-i, a-m, with a consistent accent on the a&p. The third and fourth fretting fingers will run through some re…

Danza Mora (moorish dance) is an arabesque-themed folk song for the flamenco guitar. In this first lesson of the Danza Mora we will tune our guitars to dropped D tuning. You will hear an interesting snare drum effect produced by the sixth and fifth strings being struck while being coiled together. Watch the video very closely to see exactly how thi…

You are now about to begin studying Lesson # 4 for “Entre Dos Aguas.” In this lesson you will learn the second part of the lead guitar section, where you’ll be introduced to some rather interesting chords you may have never played before. You will also encounter some insanely high notes on the fretboard—at least for the flamenco guitar—ranging from…

You’ve done it! You’ve now reached the final part of this lively rumba piece for the flamenco guitar. Bravo! ...Now we will take our basic rumba strumming pattern using a slap on the three-beat while moving some of the other beats around between the neck and the saddle. On the one-beat, go ahead and thump your middle finger (m) and your ring finger…

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! You’ve seen in previous lessons how to play the Andalusian cadence in A minor using barre chords (cejilla); in this section we will interject new barre chords between each of the Am, Gma…

Now that you’ve watched Lessons # 1 & 2 of “Entre Dos Aguas,” it’s now time to begin the part I know you’ve been waiting for… …The lead guitar section! It was this famous improvised melody, by Paco de Lucía, that sent the flamenco guitar soaring across the airways all over Europe, and eventually all over the world! It would inspire other flamenco g…

This is the second installment of our multi-part series on “How to Play Entre Dos Aguas,” I will show you how to play the second rhythm guitar part. If you’ve already watched Lesson #1 for this series, you might notice that the first half of the song—as far as the chords and right-hand strumming patterns are concerned—is quite different than the fi…

Recently, I received a request from one of my Oro-Tier Patrons for the rumba flamenca classic, “Entre Dos Aguas,” by Paco de Lucía; and I’ll have to admit that I’ve been wanting to do a video lesson on this particular song for a long time! …So what better time than now? Paco’s sister said in an interview for the documentary, “Light and Shade,” that…

In this week’s lesson, I am going to teach you a beautiful chord progression from the beginning section of “Será Verdad,” by El Maestro from Córdoba, Vicente Amigo! This is Part I of a series for this song. …Just a side note, you may notice that I repeat a phrase an additional time than the original recording; this was done in order to give you mor…

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? Well, in this flamenco guitar lesson, I’m very excited to show you how to compose your own rumba! First, we’ll start out with a simple melody line. Next, we’ll listen closely to …

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 n A minor, now I want to teach you three fiery falsetas in one lesson! There will be a lot of thumb-work involved in this lesson, as well as a lot of rapid movement with the index finger. Finally, yo…

The art of the flamenco guitar has expanded as a worldwide phenomenon because of each musician’s willingness to share his or her knowledge. In other words, there is no room for covetousness of one’s own knowledge of his or her falsetas, otherwise the global flamenco guitar community would be one of secrecy…but to the contrary, Flamenco culture invo…

Have you every wondered what the difference is between flamenco guitar strings and classical guitar strings? Well, you’ve landed on the right episode of the Flamenco Guitar Podcast, because we are going to talk about that very subject on today's show! Get your FREE TABs! You can view the tutorial video featured in this episode HERE!…

In this episode your ears will get quizzed as you identify the different flamenco guitar techniques (e.g., apoyado, picado, and free-stroke). You will also learn how to play "Guajiras Flamencas." For TABs, standard notation, and practice tracks to this lesson, please visit Flamenco4U's Patreon Page and help support us!…

We are continuing our series of chord-change videos. These chord changes, which we will be exploring in-depth together, are some of the most common and most indispensable chords for the flamenco guitar. As you continue exploring the flamenco guitar, you will discover just how frequently these chords will pop up. ...So I want to expose you to these …

Believe it or not, in this first episode, the topic is not very sexy. We will be talking about...the thumb. Yes...the thumb (pulgar). We will be discussing the pulgar because it is absolutely THE most important finger the flamenco guitarist has! The pulgar plucks, does alzapua (we'll discuss what that is), strums, and so much more. So join me on th…