Tutorial lesson for the Quique Paredes falseta - a driving falseta that employs a lot of thumb technique.

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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...

It's one thing to have some good material, but another to feel comfortable playing a new Palo. Here we look at putting all of your new material to use and flow.

Palmas for Solea Por Bulerias are very much like those for Soleá, but they feel a bit different. We look at what you need to know.

We break down and explain the technique and the compás of this groovy falseta.

We break down and explain this great traditional falseta that has a couple of real challenges along the way.

We look at the timing and the technique of this great Juan Habichuela falseta.

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

A loop of the slower version of the falseta to help get it into your ears.

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

A loop of the slower version of this falseta to get it into your ears.

A loop of the slower version of this Juan Habichuela falseta to help get it into your ears.

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

How do you know where to put the capo when you’re listening to something new? Here’s how! In this video we look at figuring out where to put the capo when you’re learning a new flamenco piece. First you have to figure out what key you’re in, then you have to figure out what that means for actuall...

Getting a handle on one of the most important elements for playing compás in Soleá Por Buleria.

Start here to learn to play Soleá Por Buleria and understand what it's all about.

One of the most important ways to vary our compás in Soleá Por Buleria is to have a good variety of 7-8-9-10 phrases, so we look at some fun ones here.

A lot of the compás we play in Soleá Por Buleria uses snippets of the escobilla melody, and we also play tons of variations of the melody when accompanying Soleá Por Buleria or just to make our compás more interesting.

Warning - Even we think this video is boring to watch. But it’s about this one trick that will make you better at counting subdivisions, which will make you have better time, which will make you a better musician. Which is the whole point, right? So feel free to skip this one. Unless you want to ...