Designed as a comprehensive multimedia teaching set, this book, CD, and DVD present 42 solos, progressively graded in 6 levels from absolute beginners to more advanced, to suit players of all levels. It contains examples of eighteen different palos (rhythmic forms) of flamenco, with a wealth of melodic falsetas and rhythms. The music for all these is accurately written in notation and flamenco tab (cifra) in the book, and is also recorded on the companion CD. The DVD video contains over 57 minutes of solo music, and also includes introduction by Juan Martín and brief scenes of Andalucia today, which help to place this profoundly exciting and deeply felt music in the landscape of its origins. Juan Martín has succeeded here in showing how even music which is simple and very easy to start with can express the essential sound and emotion of flamenco, to build step by step the skills necessary for the performance of concert solos. Written in English and Spanish.
Play Solo Flamenco Guitar With Juan Martin (MEL BAY)
This book is wonderful. It contains 42 pieces in six grades roughly similar to the classical grades 0-5. Juan Martin introduces the pieces and then demonstrates them on the DVD.
Before Martin wrote these books (there is a volume 2, grades 6-8) if you wanted to learn flamenco you had to go live in Spain and find a teacher. Nowadays there are several flamenco method courses, but this one is the original and probably still the best. It is a bit like using Sor's method to learn classical guitar.
I am finding flamenco really fun to play and addictive. The more I listen to it and play it, the more I like it!
If you want to try flamenco, I highly recommend this book.
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