Flamenco Guitar Fundamentals - in English

Flamenco Guitar Fundamentals is a comprehensive foundations course by atrafanaSchool. It covers the all the absolute essentials of flamenco guitar technique via lectures, demonstrations and drills. Each lecture is slowly and carefully narrated by Orhan in plain English. Captions are also added to each video to make sure you understand everything. There are 8 sections containing 38 video lessons, plus tabs where relevant.

Whether you are an absolute beginner or someone looking to improve their technique, or fix errors, you can simply fire up this course and follow it from beginning to end. Flamenco Guitar Fundamentals also includes the entire 101 series and its tabs under the “supplementary” section.

Syllabus for Flamenco Guitar Fundamentals

1 - Left Hand
1 - Placing fingers on frets - angle of attack - placement of the thumb
2 - Hammering exercise with slide
3 - Hammering exercise with pull offs

2 - Picado and tone
1 - Nails and basic rest stroke mechanisms
2 - Basic chromatic study and tabs
3 - Picado in the first position
4 - E phrygian scale - what to do with the thumb
5 - Incorporating thumb into picado - basic sideways thumb use
6 - Melody on e and b strings with a single bass note
7 - Dynamic thumb management and thumb free stroke

3 - Free Stroke
1 - Basic free stroke and tone production
2 - Free stroke in the first position
3 - Incorporating sideways thumb with free stroke
4 - Free stroke and thumb melody
5 - Free stroke and thumb rest stroke on adjacent strings

4 - Arpeggio
1 - Ami arpeggio on open strings - planting drill
2 - Thumb positioning - amiP arpeggio drill in the 1st position
3 - Incorporating the thumb into arpeggio - P ami - using the thumb nail
4 - Pimami sextuplet drill in the 1st position - resting thumb on the side of index
5 - Incorporating picado into arpeggio - ami drill with a playing rest stroke
6 - Exercise - Thumb and a rest stroke during arpeggio

5 - Tremolo
1 - Flamenco tremolo basics - thumb placement - practising with staccato
2 - Tremolo with thumb melody
3 - Tremolo with finger melody
4 - Incorporating trills into tremolo

6 - Pulgar
1 - Pulgar basics - wrist twitch - sweeping - golpe
2 - Pulgar exercise in the 1st position
3 - P i technique
4 - PPi technique
5 - Pulgar upstroke

7 - Alzapua
1 - Basic alzapua mechanics - the upstroke - incorporating golpe
2 - Alzpua exercise in the 1st position
3 - 4-note effect in alzapua

8 - Rasgueado
1 - index strum basics - golpe
2 - ami rasgueado with i up - simple exercise in verdiales
3 - camii rasgueado - simple exercise in solea
4 - ai i rasgueado, simple exercise in tangos
5 - P a i abanico

[Mr.Rbot]

Just bought the course. From the trailer it seems like you put much time and effort on it. Thank you

[initehgula]

Best channel for learning flamenco guitar

[twosatoshis]

Hello, would this be too advcance for somebody with 0 experience but with all the willingness to learn the art?

[fperez]

Hi, I want to buy the course but I have a pair of questions: I don’t have a pc, I only have a tablet, it’s ok? I imagine that the course is an access to a portal online and I can download or watch the videos. I studied classical guitar but I want to start with this first videos to make correction in the technique.

[Javster]

Deciding whether or not to buy this course. Any feedback, reviews would be appreciated. Thanks

[the]

Is this really orhan speaking?? Been waiting forever for him to finally speak to us lol