Youtube Flamenco Guitar Lessons - Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria)
In this video you can watch and listen to the whole piece Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia (from La Fabulosa Guitarra).
You can follow the links below to watch each flamenco guitar exercise separately:
01 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 17 - Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria) INTRO by Paco de Lucia
02 - Pulgar Exercise - 40 - Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia
03 - Free Stroke Exercise - 20 Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia
04 - Pulgar Exercise - 40 - Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia
05 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 18 - Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria) FINALE by Paco de Lucia
Recuerdo a Patiño is Paco de Lucia's very first alegria from his 1967 album La Fabulosa Guitarra de Paco de Lucia. It is in the E minor key and played in a rather free and moderate tempo. In fast alegrias there are usually slow E minor sections that are called “silencio.” With Recuerdo a Patiño, Paco seems to have built a whole piece around this concept. Only at the end does the piece pick up speed and starts sounding like a regular alegria with fast rasgueado, alzapua and picado.
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 Recuerdo a Patiño in particular.
One very interesting aspect of Recuerdo a Patiño is that Paco later on used its opening sequence in his famous rumba Rio Ancho.
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 - 17 - Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria) INTRO by Paco de Lucia
02 - Pulgar Exercise - 40 - Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia
03 - Free Stroke Exercise - 20 Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia
04 - Pulgar Exercise - 40 - Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria) by Paco de Lucia
05 - Mixed Technique Exercise - 18 - Recuerdo a Patiño (Alegria) FINALE by Paco de Lucia
Recuerdo a Patiño is Paco de Lucia's very first alegria from his 1967 album La Fabulosa Guitarra de Paco de Lucia. It is in the E minor key and played in a rather free and moderate tempo. In fast alegrias there are usually slow E minor sections that are called “silencio.” With Recuerdo a Patiño, Paco seems to have built a whole piece around this concept. Only at the end does the piece pick up speed and starts sounding like a regular alegria with fast rasgueado, alzapua and picado.
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 Recuerdo a Patiño in particular.
One very interesting aspect of Recuerdo a Patiño is that Paco later on used its opening sequence in his famous rumba Rio Ancho.
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