Youtube Flamenco Guitar Lessons - Rio de la Miel (Buleria)
Rio de la Miel is Paco de Lucia’s 8th major buleria composition from the 1998 album Luzia.
The piece opens the album with a highly unconventional falseta: tremolo in bulerias form. Paco may be the first to play tremolo against the fast beat of buleria compas. He plays one tremolo seqence (5 notes) over two beats. It is a very short falseta, though.
Rio de la Miel is a buleria in A minor, or in the flamenco parlance, in por arriba. It is quite a humorous and fun piece that explores this tonality without going too deep. The falsetas are short and sweet. In terms of technicality, Rio de la Miel is slightly easier to play than the other bulerias compositions that precede it, especially the other one on the same album, El Chorruelo.
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.
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If you wish to learn how to play flamenco guitar, then check out the link below:
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The piece opens the album with a highly unconventional falseta: tremolo in bulerias form. Paco may be the first to play tremolo against the fast beat of buleria compas. He plays one tremolo seqence (5 notes) over two beats. It is a very short falseta, though.
Rio de la Miel is a buleria in A minor, or in the flamenco parlance, in por arriba. It is quite a humorous and fun piece that explores this tonality without going too deep. The falsetas are short and sweet. In terms of technicality, Rio de la Miel is slightly easier to play than the other bulerias compositions that precede it, especially the other one on the same album, El Chorruelo.
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:
Total Training