Course Curriculum
1. How to Read TAB and Traditional Music Notation
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How to Read TAB
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How to Read Musical Notation
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How to Read Chord Diagrams
Spanish Guitar Strumming Techniques
4.7 out of 5 stars (based on 13 reviews)
Want to get into flamenco guitar? Start here!
Spanish Guitar Strumming Techniques offers 19 guitar lessons and over 150 exercises and illustrations.
Have you ever wanted to learn the secrets of playing Spanish style guitar? Do you have the ambition to play the guitar in a fast, rhythmic, and percussive way that excites and ignites an audience? Have you ever wanted to master the rumba, the flamenco triplet or the rasgueado? In Spanish Guitar Strumming Techniques course you can learn a wide array of 21st century strumming methods tailored for the Spanish and flamenco guitar.
Have you found your strumming boring and you could not gain speed? I have a proven method which will help you to master with step-by-step and slow motion movements to quickly get rumba, flamenco triplet, or you will be able to strum like Gabriela from Rodrigo y Gabriela, or even play songs from the Gypsy Kings and just sound amazing!
Included are over 150 lessons, exercises, and illustrations, each with clear and precise instructions that include:
Chords and how to construct, and use them, how to read rhythm and TAB, and the guitar and finger terminology
Dozens of different strumming and other techniques: these include rumba, golpe strumming, flamenco triplet, alzapua technique, rasgueado and variations, drumming techniques on guitar etc.
Exercises to help you to build up to the right speed.
The video features include:
1h26 minutes running time
Multiple camera angles
Slow-motion movements
Step-by-step explanations
The exercises are presented in traditional musical notation, TAB, and with chord diagrams. If you are an emerging guitarist or just a beginner who is eager to master the Spanish guitar, this book is for you.
My name is Edina, and I play the guitar over 20 years, and started with flamenco about 15 years ago. I am a qualified guitar teacher, and won the Lukas (UK latin) award in 2019 as the best jazz-folk act of the year with my Spanish guitar duo, De Fuego. I helped thousands of people to master the triplet or the rumba techniques, and with my method they were able to get it after many failed attempt.
This course will be fun and will spice up your playing and also will introduce you to the world of flamenco. I hope later you will also use these techniques to play or compose your original music.
Q&A
– Do you have exercises for each of the techniques? Yes, every lesson contains several different exercises.
– I cannot read music, will I still understand the exercises? Yes, they are also in TABs, with chord diagrams as well as in musical notation.
– Is it suitable for beginners? Yes, it is starting from the very beginning, so even if you never played the guitar before you can do all of the lessons.
Latest Reviews
Edina’s excellent video demonstrations and the book were very helpful for me to learn these techniques I could only approximate before. Start slowly with a metronome, get them down, and work up the tempo! I have much left to learn, but her teaching style helps enormously!
I found the videos very helpful for me . Adina goes through the strumming techniques, explains how and what to do . The different angles that are provided also . Though I am a beginner and new guitar . I ll keep practicing using what I’m learning . Thank you Adina for your course , Spanish Guitar
The course has a nice review of music theory, which is also a great introduction for beginners. In particular, chapter 4 helped me understand intervals. The chapters on the strumming techniques are clear and complemented by the videos. It is easy to start the strumming techniques; however, it takes time to work up to 130 bpm. Nonetheless, one can quickly sound great using the strumming techniques even at a lower bpm. The author is willing to help make things clear if you are struggling with a particular technique (above and beyond what is expected).
This work is a pretty well thought out and presented introduction to Spanish guitar for the compete newbie.
The descriptions of strumming and golpe patterns can be a little hard to figure out at first but after a bit of trial and error it works out pretty well. For those used to tablature in North America it again can take some getting used to. It was this that had me rate it 4 out of 5 stars. Would have been 5 out of 5 had it been a little easier to get the hang of.
Having said that it becomes a fairly easy to follow, descriptive method to learning the basic elements of Spanish guitar and is well worth the cost of the download.
For me the ideal introduction to the Flamenco/Rumba rhythm accompaniment: friendly teacher, very good explanations, excellent video material.
Those who hold the course to the end have a very decent basis fFor me the ideal introduction to the Flamenco/Rumba rhythm accompaniment: friendly teacher, very good explanations, excellent video material.
Those who hold the course to the end have a very decent basis for the rumba and flamenco game. It will not work without much practice, e.g. the triplets are truly not without.or the rumba and flamenco game. It will not work without much practice, e.g. the triplets are truly not without.
Edina’s teaching lesson are astonishing with a lot of advice even if you have any question she replies strait away what a star there are not many like personality top rated many thanks Edina
Wow, Edina makes it look so easy! Surprise – it’s not. I have to overcome strumming habits learned over the years, so progress has been slow. But I am excited because I’ve always wanted to learn to play flamenco and rumba styles. I wish Edina had put even more detail into her course, however. For instance, details about playing with nails would be helpful. E.g., when I hit the guitar body, should I strike with my nails or the flat of my fingers? When I strum from treble to bass with my index finger, my nail tends to get caught, but I need that nail for finger-picking and classical performance. Maybe these and other issues are covered later in the course; as I said, I’m slow to progress. In any case, I am delighted to have Edina’s new course and I am looking forward to mastering the techniques. This is the best course I have seen since it focuses just on strumming
Very good lessons and videos. it’s clear and simple to follow. Very detailed and yet it sounds amazing. She is an amazing teacher. I’m considering taking private class with Edina
Ms. Edina is clear and effective in demonstrating how to follow her guitar instructions.
Great lessons, excellent teacher. I strongly recommend this course.
Easy to watch and follow, coherent and entertaining to watch. Left out wanting more but had plenty to work with and to practice. One of my favourite guitar teachers thank you.
This is something I wanted to learn for many many years. The way she’s teaching make the learning process easy and enjoyable.
Indispensable techniques! taught and a clear straightforward way. Exactly what I was looking for.