Mel Bay Art of Flamenco Guitar: Easy Solea - Santos - Classical Guitar - Book/Audio Online

Author/Composer:

SANTOS, YAGO

Instrumentation:

CLGTR

Model #:

31116M

50 Falsetas for Beginning Flamenco Guitarists

Composer: Yago Santos
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Classical Guitar
Level: Beginning-Intermediate

This book contains 50 easy falsetas or melodic phrases in Solea form; it is best suited for guitarists who are just now venturing into the world of flamenco but already have some basic knowledge of fundamental flamenco guitar techniques.

Easy Solea puts special emphasis on the basic Solea arpeggios, as well as the escobillas (section of a dance featuring an extended "tap dance" solo), cierres (phrase closings), rajeos (rasgueado strumming techniques), ligados (slurs), tremolo and picado techniques, plus alzapua, the "raised thumb" technique as applied to the Solea palo or song form.

By combining the different falsetas and techniques presented in this book, the novice flamenco guitarist can not only build a complete and authentic sounding Solea solo composition but use the same techniques for vocal accompaniment.

Written in standard notation and tablature with examples of Solea lyrics, a list of "Recommended Listening" resources, and online audio tracks performed by the author.