Flamenco guitar

A collection of original essays and articles by Sal Bonavita.

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So you want to learn flamenco guitar. Where do you start

A collection of video lessons showing various flamenco guitar techniques

Download dance practice CD, "Flamenco Dance Forms" 29 tracks. 70 min. I previously sold for this $17 and may start selling again. Download it now while it's being offered free.

Metronomes

Commercial metronomes dasigned for flamenco, including one I designed myself

Dance Structure

A overview of how structure is important in a dance. Alegrias is used as an example

Fingernails

Tips on how to maintain strong nails

Guitar strings

What strings are best for flamenco

Choosing a guitar

What guitars are best for beginners

The Capo (Cejilla)

Why do we use a capo?

Blank music sheets

Amazingly, this is one of the most visited pages on this website

Playing for dancers

Learn to accompanying dancers.

FAQ

Freqently asked questions about learning flamenco guitar

Compas

Compás

What it is and why it's important?

The compás clock

A method of visuializing the 12 beat cycles in flamenco rhythms

Compás similarities

A chart showing cloesely related song forms

Compás groups

A chart grouping song forms into the 3 major catagories. This chart also shows beat count relationships

Flamenco family tree

Genealogy chart of the song forms indicating their origins and evolution

Tempos and moods

A subjective look at the general emotional basis of the major forms

Song regions

A diagram showing the regional origins of flamenco forms in Andalucia

External links

Flamenco tabs and midis

Traditional Flamenco information

Traditional Flamenco History

More articles about flamenco and guitar.

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◦ What is compas

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◦ Flamenco family tree

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Flamenco lessons

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◦ Rasgueado mastery

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◦ Tremolo Mastery

◦ Picado

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◦ Rumba Rhythm Lesson

◦ 2 octave C Major practice scale

◦ 3 octave E Major practice scale

◦ Pinky flick

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◦ Arpeggio study

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Learning flamenco

◦ Learning flamenco FAQ

◦ El Arte Flamenco De La Guitarra

◦ Play Solo Flamenco Guitar

◦ Flamenco Guitar (Basic Techniques)

◦ Flamenco Guitar Method

◦ The Keys to Flamenco Guitar

◦ Toques Flamencos

Australian flamenco

Dance practice CD

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Flamenco

◦ Bulerias

◦ Colombiana (El Nuevo Dia)

◦ Farruca

◦ Granadinas

◦ Guajiras

◦ Rumba

◦ Rumba (Herencia Latina)

◦ 5 Sevillanas

◦ Tarantos

Flamenco style

◦ Carcassi por buleria

◦ Flamenco Bubbles

◦ Floating tremolo

◦ The Godfather

◦ Viva Espana

◦ Watercolors

Classical

◦ Alley cat

◦ Angie

◦ Annie's song

◦ Autumn leaves

◦ Catalan folksong

◦ Dance of the hours

◦ Danza

◦ Feelings

◦ Greensleeves

◦ Ravels Bolero

◦ Recuerdos de la Alhambra

◦ Rondo

◦ Sound of bells

◦ Strangers in the night

◦ Take five

Ragtime

◦ Coney Island cakewalk

◦ Maxwell's Silver Hammer

◦ Your Mother Should Know

Romance

◦ Romance - Ragtime

◦ Romance - block chords

◦ Romance - tremolo

Songs

◦ A nightingale sang in Berkley Square

◦ Angel

◦ Coconut woman

◦ Dance the night away

◦ Dark eyes

◦ Dead pirate song

◦ Dona Dona

◦ Drover's dream

◦ Freight Train

◦ House on the hill

◦ I want you

◦ I was the one

◦ Jamaica farewell

◦ Lucille

◦ Pearly Shells

◦ Show me the way to go home

◦ Suzanne

◦ The fox

◦ The Owl and the Pussycat

◦ What now, what next, where to

◦ The Wild Rover

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