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Las Alegrías/Cantiñas

By miguel | February 1st, 2011

Originally, the word cantiña referred to any popular song: Cantinear, or canturrear, means to hum along to. It was originally a word used to denominate medieval songs from Galicia in northern Spain. The word is though to have arrived at Cádiz shipboard, where it was adopted by the local gaditanos (natives of Cádiz). Whether the [...]

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Azerbaijan

By miguel | June 26th, 2008

One of the first sites that I created was a photo gallery with commentaries in Spanish to show my friends and colleagues in Latin speaking countries what I had been up to.
Recently I learned that a colleague from the University where I work will be going to Baku, so I thought that I would put [...]

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The academy of flamenco guitar

By miguel | January 17th, 2007

Yesterday I came across a large web site managed by Chuck Keyser, based in Santa Barbara, USA, and I was most impressed.
Here you can find very useful information for those starting out with flamenco, the table of contents includes:
Flamenco guitar
Falseta collections
Compás analysis: solea, bulerí­a, alegría and siguiriya, amongst other things.

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Trémolo – getting started…

By miguel | January 15th, 2007

Some visitors have asked for material related to tremolo and practicing trémolo. This technique gives many guitar players problems, but it need not present problems if the right approach is taken to study. Before we begin, some basic terminology.
The terminology:
p = thumb
i = index
m = middle finger
a = ring finger
Now for the advice:

Practice on one [...]

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Arpeggios

By miguel | December 28th, 2006

Download studies that will help to develop right hand finger independence.

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Bulería al golpe – palmas

By miguel | December 15th, 2006

Here is a short track of palmas for bulerí­a al golpe. You will need an audio player which allows you to loop sounds, so that the track repeats over and over whilst you practise your compás.
Download – bulerí­a al golpe – palmas (50kb)
Click to play in your browser:
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Download – Rondeña.mp3

By miguel | December 10th, 2006

There is a new mp3 page. Use the links in the navigation bar at the top, or access the page from the “pages” list in the side bar.
The first installment is a Rondeña.
Download – Rondeña (5.2mb)
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alegría en mí

By miguel | December 10th, 2006

Here you can find a short “alegrí­a en mí­”. You will hear a slow introduction, a picado run and then into some rasgueados. I have included some exercises that I think will help develop the skills needed to play this example. Please note that this recording is intended to give me practice and aid myself [...]

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