Spanish Guitar Strumming Techniques

Want to get into flamenco guitar? Start here!

Spanish Guitar Strumming Techniques offers 19 guitar lessons and over 150 exercises and illustrations in the form of a book and video lessons.

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 book and video lessons, guitarist and YouTube phenomenon Edina Balczo teaches and demonstrates a wide array of 21st century strumming methods tailored for the Spanish and flamenco guitar.

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.

Q&A

• How can I watch the videos? In the end of the book there is a link for the videos, and for the guitrpro files.
• 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 a TAB, with chord diagrams as well as in standard music score.