Course Overview
Take your guitar skills to another level by learning the rhythmic and expressive style of Flamenco Guitar. This course is suitable for guitarists who already know bar chords and want to challenge themselves with the flamenco style of playing.
Throughout the course, you will go through carefully graded exercises and learn various flamenco forms and techniques such as arpeggio, rasgueados and pulgar. You will learn the flamenco posture with special attention given to the strumming hand to achieve the unique sound for which the flamenco guitar is famous. There will also be specific lessons on tangos, soleares and alegrías. A recording of exercises learnt in class will be emailed to students each week.
By the end of this course, you will be able to play complete flamenco pieces!
Macquarie Community College operates from a range of venues across Northern and Western Sydney. We have campuses in Blacktown, Carlingford, Chatswood, Epping, Mt Druitt, Richmond, and Ryde. Enrol now!
What you will learn
Course outline
In this course you will learn:
- The flamenco guitar, posture and notation explanation
- Left hand posture and fretting
- Rasgueado
- Tangos lesson
- Soleares lesson
- Alegrías lesson
- Arpeggio, rasgueados and pulgar techniques
Recording of exercises will be emailed to students in mp3 format.
Course outcome
- At the end of this course, students will be able to play complete flamenco pieces.
What you need to know
Entry requirements
Students will be expected to be comfortable playing bar chords.
What you need to provide
- Nylon string guitar