Youtube Flamenco Guitar Lessons - Plaza de San Juan (Alegria)
In this video you can watch and listen to the whole piece Plaza de San Juan (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia (from Fuente y Caudal).
You can follow the links below to watch each flamenco guitar exercise separately:
01 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 13 - Plaza de San Juan (Alegria) INTRO by Paco de Lucia
02 - Free Stroke Exercise - 19 Plaza de San Juan (Alegrias) by Paco de Lucia
03 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 14 - Plaza de San Juan (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia
04 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 15 - Plaza de San Juan (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia
05 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 16 - Plaza de San Juan (Alegria) FINALE by Paco de Lucia
Plaza de San Juan is Paco de Lucia's 3rd alegria from the best album of his 2nd period Fuente y Caudal. It is a short piece which, I believe, he expanded on a few interesting musical ideas to complete the album. The original recording is done in a free style without a rigid compas structure. However, I played it over the flamenco metronome to better observe how alegria works as a palo in terms of its accents. This also will make it easier for you to learn how to play alegria in general and Plaza de San Juan in particular.
Another interesting aspect of Plaza de San Juan is that it switches from one technique to another fairly quickly therefore giving you the opportunity to develop general technical stability.
Alegria (or alegrias) is similar to buleria in that it is based on 12 beats. There are three major differences, though: a) the compas starts at 1; b) the tonality is "por arriba" that is E, and alegria is a joyful type of music as the title suggests; c) alegria is played more slowly than buleria
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 - 13 - Plaza de San Juan (Alegria) INTRO by Paco de Lucia
02 - Free Stroke Exercise - 19 Plaza de San Juan (Alegrias) by Paco de Lucia
03 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 14 - Plaza de San Juan (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia
04 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 15 - Plaza de San Juan (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia
05 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 16 - Plaza de San Juan (Alegria) FINALE by Paco de Lucia
Plaza de San Juan is Paco de Lucia's 3rd alegria from the best album of his 2nd period Fuente y Caudal. It is a short piece which, I believe, he expanded on a few interesting musical ideas to complete the album. The original recording is done in a free style without a rigid compas structure. However, I played it over the flamenco metronome to better observe how alegria works as a palo in terms of its accents. This also will make it easier for you to learn how to play alegria in general and Plaza de San Juan in particular.
Another interesting aspect of Plaza de San Juan is that it switches from one technique to another fairly quickly therefore giving you the opportunity to develop general technical stability.
Alegria (or alegrias) is similar to buleria in that it is based on 12 beats. There are three major differences, though: a) the compas starts at 1; b) the tonality is "por arriba" that is E, and alegria is a joyful type of music as the title suggests; c) alegria is played more slowly than buleria
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