Youtube Flamenco Guitar Lessons - Buleria by Paco Peña
In this video you can watch and listen to the whole piece Buleria by Paco Peña. Follow the card links to access detailed flamenco guitar tutorials that slowly show the falseta you wish to learn.
To access the tutorials on the video, you need to click on the card links that pop up at the relevant sections of the music. Just watch the upper right hand corner of the video screen.
Or you can check out the following list of videos that cover the entire piece:
Buleria by Paco Peña - 01 - Pulgar - Rasgueado - Alzapua
Buleria by Paco Peña - 02 - Free Stroke - Pulgar - Rasgueado
Buleria by Paco Peña - 03 - Alzapua - Pulgar
Buleria by Paco Peña - 04 - Free Stroke - Picado - Pulgar - Alzapua - Rasgueado
Buleria by Paco Peña - 05 - Arpeggio - Picado - Pulgar - Rasgueado
This piece brings together, in my humble opinion, the best buleria falsetas by Paco Peña. With the exception of a fast alzapua sequence and a bit where you need to use your thumb in two directions, the piece is not very difficult to play, at least at a moderate tempo.
Note that the piece starts at beat number 6 and then falls perfectly into the 12-beat buleria compas till the end.
Though sounding somewhat traditional, Peña’s falsetas are very original and the way they come together into a whole piece shows the composer’s attention to musical form. In contrast to this sense of unity, the player is expected to switch between techniques rapidly and in relative short sequences - which is a good thing if you want to develop a good technique…
Bulerias (aka buleria) is one of the most popular forms of flamenco guitar music.
Everybody wants to learn how to play buleria. And for good reason. It is the flashiest of all palos requiring all the catchy flamenco guitar techniques. Again it uses the 12-beat structure like solea but interestingly the compas takes 12 as the starting point. The accents fall on 12, 3, 7, 8, 10. Alternately, it can be 12, 3, 6, 8, 10. But I prefer the one that uses the 7, 8 accents because when I do the tap tap golpe on those two beats, I am reassured that I have not strayed away from the compas. Or if I have gotten lost then I wait for those two adjacent taps to get back on the compas flow.
Other palos such as Solea can tolerate some rhythmical flexibility but buleria can absolutely not. You need to stay in perfect compas for your performance to be perceived and appreciated as buleria, and if you don't want your butt kicked by the instructor if you are accompanying a dance class.
The video tutorials focus on various flamenco guitar techniques such as pulgar, arpeggio, picado, free stroke, alzapua, and rasgueado. The mixed technique video lessons incorporate several different techniques within a single falseta.
There are plenty of flamenco guitar tabs available over the internet ranging from acceptably accurate to completely wrong. I utilize different sources plus the original music itself to piece together something that is as correct as I my ears can discern :-) Besides, when you have a good video tutorial, you also receive a lesson in how to use your fingers to play the falseta.
For free flamenco guitar lessons, simply subscribe to the atrafanaSchool mailing list.
To learn flamenco guitar technique via a structured curriculum:
Total Training
To access the tutorials on the video, you need to click on the card links that pop up at the relevant sections of the music. Just watch the upper right hand corner of the video screen.
Or you can check out the following list of videos that cover the entire piece:
Buleria by Paco Peña - 01 - Pulgar - Rasgueado - Alzapua
Buleria by Paco Peña - 02 - Free Stroke - Pulgar - Rasgueado
Buleria by Paco Peña - 03 - Alzapua - Pulgar
Buleria by Paco Peña - 04 - Free Stroke - Picado - Pulgar - Alzapua - Rasgueado
Buleria by Paco Peña - 05 - Arpeggio - Picado - Pulgar - Rasgueado
This piece brings together, in my humble opinion, the best buleria falsetas by Paco Peña. With the exception of a fast alzapua sequence and a bit where you need to use your thumb in two directions, the piece is not very difficult to play, at least at a moderate tempo.
Note that the piece starts at beat number 6 and then falls perfectly into the 12-beat buleria compas till the end.
Though sounding somewhat traditional, Peña’s falsetas are very original and the way they come together into a whole piece shows the composer’s attention to musical form. In contrast to this sense of unity, the player is expected to switch between techniques rapidly and in relative short sequences - which is a good thing if you want to develop a good technique…
Bulerias (aka buleria) is one of the most popular forms of flamenco guitar music.
Everybody wants to learn how to play buleria. And for good reason. It is the flashiest of all palos requiring all the catchy flamenco guitar techniques. Again it uses the 12-beat structure like solea but interestingly the compas takes 12 as the starting point. The accents fall on 12, 3, 7, 8, 10. Alternately, it can be 12, 3, 6, 8, 10. But I prefer the one that uses the 7, 8 accents because when I do the tap tap golpe on those two beats, I am reassured that I have not strayed away from the compas. Or if I have gotten lost then I wait for those two adjacent taps to get back on the compas flow.
Other palos such as Solea can tolerate some rhythmical flexibility but buleria can absolutely not. You need to stay in perfect compas for your performance to be perceived and appreciated as buleria, and if you don't want your butt kicked by the instructor if you are accompanying a dance class.
The video tutorials focus on various flamenco guitar techniques such as pulgar, arpeggio, picado, free stroke, alzapua, and rasgueado. The mixed technique video lessons incorporate several different techniques within a single falseta.
There are plenty of flamenco guitar tabs available over the internet ranging from acceptably accurate to completely wrong. I utilize different sources plus the original music itself to piece together something that is as correct as I my ears can discern :-) Besides, when you have a good video tutorial, you also receive a lesson in how to use your fingers to play the falseta.
For free flamenco guitar lessons, simply subscribe to the atrafanaSchool mailing list.
To learn flamenco guitar technique via a structured curriculum:
Total Training