Category Archives: Techniques

Here you can find information about the techniques of flamenco guitar and how to develop them.

Scales

By miguel | Published: July 30, 2008

I have now written out, in tab and stave the scales based on A. Go to the “scales the notes” to find the pdf.

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At last! The chords page has some tablature for downloading. It is a simple, though long, series of six note chords that I often use to assist my right hand study and training. “One of the maxims of effective practice is to break everything down to the smallest possible movement. Isolated problems

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The revised technique page

By miguel | Published: May 21, 2008

The technique page has been fully revised and is now waiting for photos and videos to be taken and inserted. It is has fuller explanations and a linked index for easy navigation throughout the rather long page. Next on the list of things to do is a revision of the individual technique pages. The old ones [...]

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elementary – soleá 3

By miguel | Published: January 6, 2008

Here is the final installment of our soleá. There are four rasgueado exercises that form the basic soleá rasgueados. More details about these are given in the newly updated rasgueado page.You can download the pdf here: At the top of the page I have shown some simple chords that are most often used for this [...]

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elementary – tangos and abánico

By miguel | Published: November 25, 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 [...]