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elementary – tangos and abánico
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
Here is the first lesson. The “palo” is called “tangos” and there is no relationship with the Argentinian song and dance form.
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.
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Tangos improvisation
Here is a tangos that features a Solo Compas 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!
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Tangos compás
This week I am back to recording and study. This recording follows the great meeting I had on Friday night with Çengizhan. Another flamenco fan, he has been playing for many a long year. Unfortunately, as with many guitar players who have never visited Andalucia,
Jorge on 
Richard Sweeton on 
miguel on 
Klemen on 
Carlo on 
Gaylene Lea Barron on 
tomer on 
Xavier on 
Gerald on 
Tim Richards on 
Riccardo Ascani on 
elementary – rhythmic structures of the main “palos” (flamenco forms)