Rasgueado Techniques Flamenco Guitar & Classical Guitar

• By: Adam del Monte
• Flamenco Guitar
  Classical Guitar
  
• Edition: 3
• Advanced Beginner
• 110 Min
• 14 Videos
• Download Music Sheet

Rasgueado, or Rasgeo in Andalusian, is a right hand (if you are right handed!) strumming technique that is distinctly associated with flamenco guitar. This technique has its roots in popular Spanish guitar or Vihuela playing that part of the troubadour tradition. This later on became an staple of the flamenco guitar, and was not used nearly enough in the classical guitar literature. However, when it has, most classical guitarists don’t have much of a foundation in that technique. To quote maestro Pepe Romero: “where does it say in the Sevillanas by Juaquin Turina that you must play rasguedos that suck…”

This 3rd edition of Rasgueado Techniques is 110 minutes of intense video which includes 5 different types of Rasgueados, a Rumba pattern, Alzapua; that crazy wild thing we do only with the thumb that sounds like thunder, and finally the unique sounding Thumb-Noodle Technique. All techniques are broken down in detail, and their application are provided with examples. These are the ultimate tools and techniques you need to play a great sounding rasgueado.

A fair amount of classical guitar repertoire requires a properly executed rasguedo, yet the actual teaching of it and codifying into a detailed method and process is often lacking. This video is as much for a classical guitar player as it is for a flamenco guitarist who wish to once and for all crack the mystery of these elusive techniques. Here you will learn techniques that are not taught in colleges and universities (with the exception of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where maestro del Monte teaches :-D ).

In this lesson Adam del Monte plays an N700 flamenco guitar by Altamira Guitars