The Flamenco Guitar Podcast

🎸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 only enjoy playing, but will have others captivat...

🎸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 many adventurous slides up and down the neck on...

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 introduction to the most effective use of octaves, pleas...

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 show you how to do alzapua within the compás (rhy...

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 considered by most players to be a well deserved "break...

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, you'll have a highly valuable new tool in your fla...

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 strum the sixth string. So, in this lesson, I wi...

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 relatively demanding legado (hammer-on) movements a...

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 this effect is done. The second portion of this open...

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 the 14th to the 17th fret!  The apoyado and pi...

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 ( a ) along the saddle for a kick-drum effect....

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, Gmaj, and Fmaj chords—you'll see what chords those...

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 guitar masters, like Manolo Sanlúcar, to compose "C...

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 first rhythm guitar part. For this second rhythm gui...

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 when Paco recorded "Entre Dos Aguas," it "just we...

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 more practice on this particular part. Enjoy!

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 the melody to figure out which chords we'll need t...

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, you'll learn an exciting and fast apoyando (alternat...

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 involves the generous sharing of ideas, art, letras ,...

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 chords ASAP! ...You'll thank me later 😉 But, you...

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 this new podcast journey, and let me know what you t...