Serrano Juan - Flamenco Classical Guitar Tradition, Volume 1 - Guitar

With Online Audio-Written in Spanish and English this book contains 12 of Juan Serrano's finest flamenco guitar solos. Selections include: Bella Mar (Verdiales); Ensueno (Petenera); Fantasy (Zambra); Juani (Farruca); Lidia;Majestuosas (Serguiriyas); Munequita (Zapateado); Nancy (Rumba); Nostalgia (Guajiras); Posadas (Soleares); Tentacion (Bulerias); and Verde Selva (Danzon).All solos are scored in notation and tablature. Includes accessto online audio recording download of Juan Serrano playing each solo.

Par SERRANO JUAN. The legendary flamenco guitarist and best-selling Mel Bay Publications author, Juan Serrano, is well-known for his sound recordings, transcriptions of his music, and technical methods for flamenco guitar. Now the music that formed his technical repertory and was the musical foundation given to his by his father, Antonio el del Lunar, (guitarist for all the flamenco singers of his time including Pastora Pavon-Nina de los Peines) is at your fingertips in this book that contains completely unreleased flamenco puro that is the foundation of one of the world's leading guitarists. These falsetas or variations on flamenco forms (toques) are graded so they are valuable for beginners, intermediate, advanced, and professional flamenco guitarists--or for classical guitarists that want to learn flamenco. This book is a repertoire book that is a valuable supplement to other Juan Serrano books on Mel Bay, such as Flamenco Guitar: Basic Techniques, or The Flamenco/Classical Tradition: A Technical Guitar Method and Introduction to music. This new book includes standard notation and guitar tablature. This repertoire allows students to solidify right-hand arpeggios, rasgueados, and picados - and left-hand techniques such as ligados and apagados, while learning valuable repertoire that can be used by the concert artist. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / Flamenco - Solos / Recueil / Guitare Classique

This beginning guitar method is written for aspiring classical or flamenco guitarists who want to learn how to read music up to the intermediate level. Music from the Spanish tradition such as Romanza Pica-Pica El Vito Café delas Chinitas Perfid a La Virgen de la Macarena and flamenco music of Juan Serrano provides a technical and musical foundation that improves facility in playing scales arpeggios tremelo and rasgueado. Tablature is notincluded as the one of the primary aims of this book is to improve note reading and the comprehension of the fundamental elements of music. Performances of all musical examples are available online that includes one performance attempo for each of the more than 230 musical examples. Short repertoire pieces from Gaspar Sanz Dionisio Aguado Fernando Sor Mauro Guiliani Ferdinand Carulli and Mateo Carcassi are included at the end of the book and arerepertoire studies that will prepare guitarists for further study in classical and/or flamenco guitar.

Here?s yet another book that should be in every serious classical and flamenco guitarist?s library; this time Ioannis Anastassakis (The Art of Rasguedo) eliminates the guesswork on how to practice and perform the tremolotechnique. The book addresses over 70 different approaches and methods to practice the tremolo with unprecedented advice from some of the greatest classical and flamenco guitarists including: Andrés Segovia John Williams SharonIsbin Christopher Parkening Pepe Romero Scott Tennant David Russell Narciso Yepes Stanley Yates Stepan Rak Juan Serrano Manolo Sanlucar Manolo Franco José Antonio Rodriguez Paco Serrano and many more. Characteristically Anastassakis presents an exhaustive analysis of the different tremolo patterns: 4-note 5-note 5-note extended melody tremolo 6-note tremolo 8-note tremolo and continuous extended tremolo. A comprehensivebibliography of classical and flamenco guitar pieces that utilize traditional and/or extended tremolo techniques is also included. Written in standard notation and tablature.

Mel Bay's Flamenco Guitar Wall Chart offers an overview of the essential elements of this flamboyant art form. It provides musical examples of the principal techniques song forms and rhythms together with a glossary of flamencoterms specifics of the structural differences between flamenco and classic guitars and a chronological list of noteworthy flamenco players. A large photo of a guitar constructed by Rafael Moreno Rodriguez of Granada Spaingraces the chart sure to appeal to the novice or seasoned flamenco guitarist!