Exploring Flamenco: Granaína and Solea por Bulerias
About Exploring Flamenco: Granaína and Solea por Bulerias
Learning two contrasting pieces of music at the same time is a great way to broaden your technical abilities and interpretive skills.
Granaínas is a beautiful, profound palo featuring intricate arpeggios, a unique tonality, and free rhythm. It gets its name from the mountainous city of Granada, a historic melting pot of the many cultures that contributed to flamenco’s evolution. Granaina will develop your right-hand arpeggio and tremolo techniques and your melodic interpretive skills.
Solea por Bulerias is an energetic, driving palo whose tempo falls somewhere between melancholy Solea and festive Bulerias. It features intense thumb melodies, quick arpeggios, and plenty of rasgueos (flamenco strumming). You’ll challenge your playing velocity and sense of rhythm and improve your grasp on flamenco’s 12-count compás.
You’ll end the course with a collection of compás variations and falsetas for Solea por Bulerias and plenty of material to arrange your own solo in Granaína.
What's Needed
Materials
Guitar - nylon strings recommended
Playing Experience
One year of playing experience (any style) is recommended. Ideally, students will already know basic chord shapes and be able to change chords smoothly. Both Granaína and Solea por Bulerias require barre chords.
Less-experienced guitarists are welcome but may find this course overly challenging.
No knowledge of music notation is needed. I’ll teach using a combination of TAB and demonstration.
Class Goals
- '- Learn compás (rhythm) and several falsetas for Solea por Bulerias
- - Learn repertoire and interpretive techniques for Granaína
- - Arrange your repertoire for both palos into unique solos
- - Recognize Granaína and Solea por Bulerias when you hear them
- - Expand your technical abilities in flamenco guitar, particularly in rasgueo, arpeggio, thumb, and tremolo techniques
- - Deepen your understanding of flamenco compás in two different styles
- - Enjoy playing two new palos with flamenco guitar enthusiasts all over the world!
Age Range
Adults
When
The class will meet for ten weekly 50-min live online sessions on Sundays at 11:30 am ET | 8:30 am PT | 15:00 UTC on the schedule below. The first session is on September 4.
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All classes are recorded for later review and study. If you have to miss a class or two, you can always catch up using the video.
How It Works
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Leah Kruszewski
Multi-year Teacher of the Year for Flamenco and Classical Guitar, Leah loves introducing flamenco guitarists to the rhythms and melodies of southern Spain and guiding classical players as they develop their technique and repertoire. She also enjoys guiding beginners in Loog, fingerstyle, and acoustic guitar (ages 6 & up, please).
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