Youtube Flamenco Guitar Lessons - El Chorruelo (Buleria)
El Chorruelo is Paco de Lucia’s 7th major buleria (Rio de la Miel then would be the 8th) composition from the 1998 album Luzia.
After the crazy Soniquete we are witnessing a return to the typical por medio bulerias harmony with cejilla at 3rd with El Chorruelo. Though being more traditional sounding, El Chorruelo has its fair share of technical challenges. At the beginning Paco mixes alzapua with P-m up and down strumming, and towards the end he utilizes the arpeggio sweeps he first came up with in the Zyryab album for his taranta Tio Sabas.
El Chorruelo contains beautiful melodies as we are accustomed to hearing from Paco. He also makes technique serve his creative process and not the other way around. That is, he doesn’t simply show off.
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.
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.
If you wish to learn how to play flamenco guitar, then check out the link below:
https://www.atrafana.com/total-training.html
After the crazy Soniquete we are witnessing a return to the typical por medio bulerias harmony with cejilla at 3rd with El Chorruelo. Though being more traditional sounding, El Chorruelo has its fair share of technical challenges. At the beginning Paco mixes alzapua with P-m up and down strumming, and towards the end he utilizes the arpeggio sweeps he first came up with in the Zyryab album for his taranta Tio Sabas.
El Chorruelo contains beautiful melodies as we are accustomed to hearing from Paco. He also makes technique serve his creative process and not the other way around. That is, he doesn’t simply show off.
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.
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.
If you wish to learn how to play flamenco guitar, then check out the link below:
https://www.atrafana.com/total-training.html