Youtube Flamenco Guitar Lessons - Plaza Alta (Solea)
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In these videos you can watch and listen to the whole piece Plaza Alta(Solea) by Paco de Lucia (from Almoraima).
To access the tutorials on the videos, 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:
01 - Plaza Alta (Solea) by Paco de Lucia - Free Stroke - Pulgar - Arpeggio
02 - Plaza Alta (Solea) by Paco de Lucia - Rasgueado - Picado - Free Stroke
03 - Plaza Alta (Solea) by Paco de Lucia - Tremolo
04 - Plaza Alta (Solea) by Paco de Lucia - Arpeggio - Pulgar - Free Stroke
Plaza Alta (Fast Section) by Paco de Lucia - Rasgueado - Picado - Pulgar - Free Stroke - Arpeggio
Plaza Alta is the 6th track from Paco’s groundbreaking 1976 album Almoraima. The piece has 2 sections. The first one is a freely played solea that brings together some of the best falsetas Paco composed during the 1970s. As usual, I played this section adhering to a strict compas so that you can understand how the beats and accents are sequenced together.
The second section is a fast solea he plays with rhythm guitar and bass accompaniment. Although we can say that this is a solea por buleria judging from the quickness of the compas, the tonality is still classic solea key which is por arriba.
To learn how to play solea, read below first:
Solea is based on the 12-beat compas, which is the most commonly used meter in flamenco music.
Within one bar (measure) there are 12 beats (quarter notes) and each musical sentence starts and ends within these 12 beats. The "cierre" starts on the 10th beat and marks the end of the sentence and takes up 2 beats .
Then there are the accents that mold the flow of music into something that relates to a larger context of musical performance i.e. singing, dancing.
The accents are on the beats 3, 6, 8, 10, and 12.
Watch the videos in the youtube video lesson paying attention to the compas. You will see that the accents are embedded in the music either as golpes or notes/chords that stick out.
The Plaza Alta (solea) video tutorials focus on various flamenco guitar techniques such as pulgar, arpeggio, picado, free stroke, alzapua, and rasgueado.
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 links below:
Learn the Fundamentals
Master Flamenco Guitar
Study Compas
Sign up for Affordable Lessons
Speed up your Picado
To access the tutorials on the videos, 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:
01 - Plaza Alta (Solea) by Paco de Lucia - Free Stroke - Pulgar - Arpeggio
02 - Plaza Alta (Solea) by Paco de Lucia - Rasgueado - Picado - Free Stroke
03 - Plaza Alta (Solea) by Paco de Lucia - Tremolo
04 - Plaza Alta (Solea) by Paco de Lucia - Arpeggio - Pulgar - Free Stroke
Plaza Alta (Fast Section) by Paco de Lucia - Rasgueado - Picado - Pulgar - Free Stroke - Arpeggio
Plaza Alta is the 6th track from Paco’s groundbreaking 1976 album Almoraima. The piece has 2 sections. The first one is a freely played solea that brings together some of the best falsetas Paco composed during the 1970s. As usual, I played this section adhering to a strict compas so that you can understand how the beats and accents are sequenced together.
The second section is a fast solea he plays with rhythm guitar and bass accompaniment. Although we can say that this is a solea por buleria judging from the quickness of the compas, the tonality is still classic solea key which is por arriba.
To learn how to play solea, read below first:
Solea is based on the 12-beat compas, which is the most commonly used meter in flamenco music.
Within one bar (measure) there are 12 beats (quarter notes) and each musical sentence starts and ends within these 12 beats. The "cierre" starts on the 10th beat and marks the end of the sentence and takes up 2 beats .
Then there are the accents that mold the flow of music into something that relates to a larger context of musical performance i.e. singing, dancing.
The accents are on the beats 3, 6, 8, 10, and 12.
Watch the videos in the youtube video lesson paying attention to the compas. You will see that the accents are embedded in the music either as golpes or notes/chords that stick out.
The Plaza Alta (solea) video tutorials focus on various flamenco guitar techniques such as pulgar, arpeggio, picado, free stroke, alzapua, and rasgueado.
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 links below:
Learn the Fundamentals
Master Flamenco Guitar
Study Compas
Sign up for Affordable Lessons
Speed up your Picado