Flamenco Guitar Lesson - How to Play Farruca - in 2 Keys and Sabicas Falseta

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Farruca is the best flamenco form for guitarists to start with - it's rhythmically simple and familiar, and generally uses chords you already know. In this guitar lesson, I break down the elements of farruca using the two most common keys of A minor and E minor, and give you common embellishments you can add as you learn this form. Once you can play farruca in these 2 keys, try learning an excerpt from a famous farruca by Sabicas: "Con Salero y Garbo."

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0:01 Farruca intro example in A minor
0:17 What's coming up in this video
0:42 What is a flamenco form and why play Farruca?
1:10 Starting out with the basic chords in A minor
2:39 Adding embellishments to the chords
3:53 Traditional concluding phrase with hammer-ons and pull-offs
4:16 Play through of the whole form with embellishments and concluding phrase
4:40 The more advanced conclusion I played at the beginning of this video
5:32 Similarity between farruca and Argentine tango ("La Cumparsita)
5:47 Adding the 4-stroke rasgueo
6:34 Farruca in E minor: the basic chords
7:55 Adding embellishments
8:42 Let's try to play an "actual" farruca from the great flamenco guitar master Sabicas
9:08 Sabicas farruca excerpt from "Con Salero y Garbo" performance with tablature
10:09 Breaking down the Sabicas farruca: 1st section chords
12:42 The first falseta
15:16 2nd section with golpe
16:26 The "arrastre" technique
16:32 The concluding arpeggios and picado phrase
18:34 Conclusion

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*In this video I use the word "compás," which refers to the basic rhythm of the form.

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