Youtube Flamenco Guitar Lessons - El Tempul (Buleria)
In this video you can watch and listen to the whole piece El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia (from Fantasia Flamenca).
You can follow the links below to watch each flamenco guitar exercise separately:
01 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 6 - El Tempul (Bulerias) INTRO by Paco de Lucia
02 - Alzapua Exercise - 15 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
03 - Pulgar Exercise - 23 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
04 - Picado Exercise 01 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
05 - Free Stroke Exercise - 13 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
06 - Picado Exercise 02 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
07 - Arpeggio Exercise - 24 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
08 - Picado Exercise 03 - FINALE - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
Learning how to play El Tempul will give you a wealth of information on both flamenco guitar technique and buleria as a genre of flamenco guitar.
El Tempul is the first buleria composed by Paco de Lucia that very obviously set him apart from the other players. Although it is made up of falsetas, like any other flamenco piece, El Tempul has an overarching compositional integrity. It has a beautiful introduction that presents the main motifs to be reincorporated in various ways throughout the piece. Each falseta uses a specific flamenco guitar technique. The finale is a gorgeous Am buleria piece, which Paco kept revisiting and revising in his later work.
El Tempul can be your entry point if you wish to learn how to play buleria.
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
You can follow the links below to watch each flamenco guitar exercise separately:
01 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 6 - El Tempul (Bulerias) INTRO by Paco de Lucia
02 - Alzapua Exercise - 15 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
03 - Pulgar Exercise - 23 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
04 - Picado Exercise 01 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
05 - Free Stroke Exercise - 13 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
06 - Picado Exercise 02 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
07 - Arpeggio Exercise - 24 - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
08 - Picado Exercise 03 - FINALE - El Tempul (Buleria) by Paco de Lucia
Learning how to play El Tempul will give you a wealth of information on both flamenco guitar technique and buleria as a genre of flamenco guitar.
El Tempul is the first buleria composed by Paco de Lucia that very obviously set him apart from the other players. Although it is made up of falsetas, like any other flamenco piece, El Tempul has an overarching compositional integrity. It has a beautiful introduction that presents the main motifs to be reincorporated in various ways throughout the piece. Each falseta uses a specific flamenco guitar technique. The finale is a gorgeous Am buleria piece, which Paco kept revisiting and revising in his later work.
El Tempul can be your entry point if you wish to learn how to play buleria.
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