If you've decided finally to learn flamenco guitar this piece must be your first step. Learn some variations of the toque of Solea and introduce you in concepts such as thumb, golpe, cierre, etc.

Let's roll up our sleeves and start applying micro techniques to our playing.

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The most important guitar techniques - all covered in one amazing solo!

We will study a guitar solo inspired in Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai, Van Halen and others. It contains a lot of legatos, tapping and pinch harmonics.

As you may know, Howe is a great rock fusion guitarist, he has got many technical resources: legato, sweep picking, tapping, alternate picking and an extensive musical vocabulary.

Al Christie shows you typical chords and techniques such as fingerpicking, rasqueados, rasqueados followed by thumb (etc.) in this first Flamenco lesson at guitarmasterclass!

Al Christie gives an introduction to a Traditional Solea which is a basic form of Flamenco. Includes a few Falsetas(melodic parts), Rasgueados(brushing fingers across the strings) and special thumb and picking techniques.

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