Flamenco Guitar Transcriptions

TOQUES

cantiña

• Six cierres and three short falsetas in C.
• Three picado runs in E, C and A to end your falsetas.

malagueña

• Montoya, Ricardo and Paco arpeggiate over the siguiriyas rhythm.

fandango

• Fourteen falsetas and different ways to connect them.
• Three falsetas with different approaches and techniques.

soleá

• Basic traditional falsetas por arriba.
• A falseta recorded by Montoya, Sabicas, Paco and Enrique de Melchor.
• The development of alzapúa in recordings.

siguiriya

• Several new and old falsetas.
• Forty-nine classic cierres and remates.

bulería

• Basic rhythm and rasgueados.
• Morón-Jerez in the 1950s and 1970s.
• Paco Cepero in the 1970s.
• Ramón Montoya in 1931.
• Juan Maya "Marote" in 1970.
• Manolo de Huelva and bulerías in Seville.
• Bulería falseta.

CANTES

• Several styles related to the soleá Joaquín el de La Paula 3.
• Study of siguiriyas and soleá.
• Six different styles of bulerías por soleá.
• Study (in Spanish) of half compás in bulerías por soleá.

OTHER RESOURCES

• Guitar exercises.
• The music of Gaspar Sanz.
• Interviews with Javier Molina and Ramón Montoya.
• Biographical information on flamenco guitarists.
• Soleares and siguiriyas rhythms explained.
• Explanation of rhythm symbols used in standard notation.
• A satellite photo of Andalusia and northern Africa.
• Links on flamenco, guitarists and the guitar.
• A small audio file of the guitar.
• Falseta collections: bulería, soleá and siguiriya.

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