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elementary – rhythmic structures of the main palos

By miguel | December 15th, 2007

How can you start learning the rhythmic forms of flamenco?
Start counting. Count the beats out loud, or in your head. Do it in any language you like, the idea is to start to develop a feel for the accents sub-consciously. It will help if you tap your foot, click your fingers or tap your knuckles [...]

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elementary – tangos and abánico

By miguel | November 25th, 2007

This tangos introduces thumb and index work and the thumb to play simple compás as well as the abánico technique.
Practise dead slowly, as always because speed will come alone. The focus here is to stay in compás and keep everything even and clean.
The fingering for the abánico can be found with the other rasgueado exercises [...]

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elementary: starting with rasgueados and thumb

By miguel | November 11th, 2007

The “palo” is called “tangos”.
In this lesson we will look at basic rasgueados and some thumb techniques. You can find some exercises and advice for rasgueados here and for thumb work here.
You will see that there are two mp3 recordings. One features guitar and the other is palms and cajón. When you practise, always play [...]

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Tangos improvisation

By miguel | May 27th, 2007

Here is a tangos that features a Solo Compás backing track. I have been practising picado recently and here are the results. Of course, still lots of work to do with respect to technique, but the practice is paying off, slowly but surely!
There is also a new alzapúa falseta that I came up with today [...]

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Tangos compás

By miguel | April 1st, 2007

This week I am back to recording and study. This recording follows the great meeting I had on Friday night with Gengizhan. Another flamenco fan, he has been playing for many a long year. Unfortunately, as with many guitar players who have never visited Andalucia, he has never accompanied cante. So we struck a deal, [...]

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