Friday Falseta - Bulería - Kai Narezo Falseta (from Al Aire) - Performance. Use this falseta in either a soleá or bulería.

Friday Falseta - Buleria Alzapua - Kai Narezo Falseta Performance (Also works for Tangos)

Friday Falseta - Tangos Alzapua - Kai Narezo Falseta Performance (Also works for Bulería)

Watch this to see what we'll be covering in the Buleria 1 Guitar Solo lesson or to refresh your memory once you've gone through the lesson.

Compás as a measure or cycle in flamenco.

Introduction to the Llamada in Alegrias.

What is a Llamada? This is one of the trickier terms in flamenco, but you'll start to recognize them once you know what to look for.

Picado is the flamenco technique for playing scales.

When there is no rhythm in flamenco we call this Libre. Most all of the Libre Cante comes from the Fandango family and includes the Fandango, Taranta, Granaina, Malagueña and more.

When a piece/song/dance changes key or tempo at the end we call the the Macho. For example, the Tangos are the macho of Tientos and the Rumba is the Macho of Tangos.

Literally a "lift', a subida is a quickening of tempo, which can be gradual or sudden.

Flamenco strumming - any time you use the back of the nails of your fingers (not the thumb) to play a note.

Flick out each finger as if you are flicking a bug off your knee. We are trying for individual, percussive, and rhythmic strokes with each finger, rather than just unfurling your finger...

Some context about Tientos - how it works, the different ways it can feel, and where it falls in the Tientos-Tangos-Rumba continuum.

Three ideas for compás embellishment in an advanced form.

This advanced level Tientos falseta by Kai features quite a bit of picado and thumb technique, with an extended sextuplet scale run at the end.

This Tientos falseta by Enrique Melchor uses all thumb technique and can be played to equal effect whether in strict time or in the more loose ‘plastic’ Tientos feel.

This Tientos falseta by Tomatito use thumb technique and alzapua, and features a couple of big stretches in the left hand.

This Tientos falseta by Kai is great for accompanying dance. It features a couple of big left hand stretches and quite a few picado runs, including a short burst of 32nd notes (which at this tempo is not quite as daunting as it sounds.)

If you've been playing for a little while you may already have lots of material that you can 'recycle' by transposing to other keys. This tutorial shows you how to think about this so you can use your material in different keys and even different modes (i.e. Por Medio to Por Arriba or even from P...

This falseta is really lovely, but definitely challenging. A classic by one of the great masters.

A great traditional falseta featuring lots of arpeggios and slurs that's a bit more challenging than it may appear at first.

This falseta of Kai's has some tricky thumb technique plus quite a bit of syncopation.

In this video we use Soleá Por Bulería to look at how to take the basic flamenco chord progression and expand it into something longer and a bit more varied. We examine how to use secondary dominant chords within the progression, and then at the end we look at some of the really useful dominant c...