Youtube Flamenco Guitar Lessons - Soniquete (Buleria)
Soniquete is Paco de Lucia’s 6th major buleria composition from the 1990 album Zyryab.
Here Paco is using an unconventional (at the time) key for buleria. Discounting the capo placement on the 3rd fret (I used 2nd) the piece resolves to C# (or Db if you prefer). This allows Paco to explore very interesting chord voicings in the first position. Playing buleria this way was quite for its time and it paved the way for many others such as Vicente Amigo to explore these new harmonic possibilities.
Soniquete is composed in 12-beat measures without exception.
Notice that the piece originally starts with singing and ends with a glorious ensemble of instruments.
I had to trim it to extract the playable solo guitar section, which is still upwards of 7 mins long.
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
Here Paco is using an unconventional (at the time) key for buleria. Discounting the capo placement on the 3rd fret (I used 2nd) the piece resolves to C# (or Db if you prefer). This allows Paco to explore very interesting chord voicings in the first position. Playing buleria this way was quite for its time and it paved the way for many others such as Vicente Amigo to explore these new harmonic possibilities.
Soniquete is composed in 12-beat measures without exception.
Notice that the piece originally starts with singing and ends with a glorious ensemble of instruments.
I had to trim it to extract the playable solo guitar section, which is still upwards of 7 mins long.
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