The technique contents
- – Tirando & apoyando
- Picado & scales
- – String walking
- – Speed bursts
- – Staccato practice
- – Chromatic scales
- Arpeggios
- – Block planting
- – Sequential planting
- Rasgueado
- The flamenco thumb
- – Alzapúza
- Trémolo
The technique page in nearly finished. Well, finished in the sense that it is useable: the explanations are clear and that the downloads work. Currently the contents read as you can see in the box to the right.
The aim of this page is to show the basic flamenco guitar techniques and provide exercises that I am currently focussing on. Deliberately, the exercises are not particularly musical in order to isolate the technique in question. I will be adding more exercises that are much more flamenco in later posts.
Each technique is illustrated with simple exercises. These are posted in jpeg format or pdf. Everything should have been in pdf, but Gnometab, the guitar tablature editor I was using broke down and is no longer supported. This wonderful little programme allowed me to write arrows for rasgueados on the tablature which newer editors do not allow me to do. Currently I am using Tux-Guitar. Until I work out how to write arrows to represent rasgueado, I will be writing tablature by hand and then scanning it.
In the near future, there will be some video to accompany the alzpúa and rasgueados sections as well as some tidying up of text to make the explanations clearer. If there are any questions, suggestions or constructive criticisms, please let me know.
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The technique page
The technique contents
- – Tirando & apoyando
- Picado & scales
- – String walking
- – Speed bursts
- – Staccato practice
- – Chromatic scales
- Arpeggios
- – Block planting
- – Sequential planting
- Rasgueado
- The flamenco thumb
- – Alzapúza
- Trémolo
The technique page in nearly finished. Well, finished in the sense that it is useable: the explanations are clear and that the downloads work. Currently the contents read as you can see in the box to the right.
The aim of this page is to show the basic flamenco guitar techniques and provide exercises that I am currently focussing on. Deliberately, the exercises are not particularly musical in order to isolate the technique in question. I will be adding more exercises that are much more flamenco in later posts.
Each technique is illustrated with simple exercises. These are posted in jpeg format or pdf. Everything should have been in pdf, but Gnometab, the guitar tablature editor I was using broke down and is no longer supported. This wonderful little programme allowed me to write arrows for rasgueados on the tablature which newer editors do not allow me to do. Currently I am using Tux-Guitar. Until I work out how to write arrows to represent rasgueado, I will be writing tablature by hand and then scanning it.
In the near future, there will be some video to accompany the alzpúa and rasgueados sections as well as some tidying up of text to make the explanations clearer. If there are any questions, suggestions or constructive criticisms, please let me know.
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