Flamenco Guitar Method for Beginners

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

In this easy-to-follow book and DVD set Juan Martin and Patrick Campbell provide a thorough introduction to flamenco Guitar.What are the essential elements and techniques of flamenco Guitar playing?How does one capture the real essence of authentic flamenco Guitar? These are questions that Juan Martin celebrated virtuoso flamenco guitarist and teacher addresses in this first book of a projected three-volumeseries.This method is designed for the complete beginner and requires no prior knowledge of the Guitar or flamenco music. It also provides invaluable insights and material for more advanced players who want to capture theessential sounds rhythms and emotional power of true flamenco.The series begins with in-depth demonstrations of how the basic building blocks of flamenco Guitar technique are used in actual flamenco music. The materialthen progresses to a detailed exploration of the individual rhythmic forms - the palos.In this book the fundamental palos of Solea and Alegrias are presented to emphasize the basic rhythms and provide examples of falsetas- the melodic passages. Martin then shows how to apply these when collaborating with a dancer and singer.In Essential Flamenco Guitar: Volume 1 the music is transcribed in standard notation andtablature (cifra). The two DVDs contain over 3.5 combined hours of explanation and demonstrations.The first DVD provides a detailed introduction to basic techniques using examples of authentic flamenco to show thesetechniques in action. The second DVD progresses to demonstrations of the Solea and Alegrias including music for the soloist and the Guitar accompanying the dancing and singing.