Youtube Flamenco Guitar Lessons - La Tumbona (Buleria)
La Tumbona is Paco de Lucia’s 4th major buleria composition from the 1981 album Solo Quiero Caminar.
With this piece we notice a significant change in Paco’s harmonies. Having played with John Mc Laughlin and Al di Meola, he starts to innovate with new chords and melodic sequences. Interestingly, I find La Tumbona to be slightly easier to play than Cepa Andaluza as it does not rely on crazy left hand stretches. This is mainly due to the fact that Paco uses a wider palette of chords and harmonies in his search for musical expression. In other words, he doesn’t just grab the first fret bar and use the pinky to reach for distant notes :-)
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:
To learn flamenco guitar technique via a structured curriculum:
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With this piece we notice a significant change in Paco’s harmonies. Having played with John Mc Laughlin and Al di Meola, he starts to innovate with new chords and melodic sequences. Interestingly, I find La Tumbona to be slightly easier to play than Cepa Andaluza as it does not rely on crazy left hand stretches. This is mainly due to the fact that Paco uses a wider palette of chords and harmonies in his search for musical expression. In other words, he doesn’t just grab the first fret bar and use the pinky to reach for distant notes :-)
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:
To learn flamenco guitar technique via a structured curriculum:
Total Training