Exploring Flamenco: Malagueña and Colombiana

About Exploring Flamenco: Malagueña and Colombiana

Learning two contrasting pieces of music at the same time is a great way to broaden your technical abilities and interpretive skills. Malagueña (mal-ah-gain-yah) is an intense flamenco palo sung freely (without rhythm) and accompanied by carefully-timed responses from the guitar. Colombiana is a light, cheerful palo in a major key featuring a 4-beat rhythm with Cuban influence.

Flamenco’s Malagueña evolved from folkloric fandangos, which were adapted to flamenco in the Andalusian coastal city of Malaga in the mid-1800s. Malagueña is played in the key of E Phrygian and features a variety of arpeggios, tremolos, and melodies. Note, here are several famous classical and popular guitar solos called Malagueña that are not the equivalent of a flamenco Malagueña. You will hear some common elements, though!

Colombiana is one of flamenco’s youngest palos, created in 1931 by singer Pepe Marchena. The first guitar accompaniment was recorded by Ramón Montoya a year later. The compás (rhythm) of Colombiana can be counted in 2/4 or 4/4 and features a 1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2. The Colombiana material we’ll learn will be in the key of A Major.

You’ll end the course with a collection of compás variations and falsetas for Malagueña and Colombiana. We’ll also cover how to arrange your repertoire into unique guitar solos.


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. Being comfortable with barre chords will help.

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

  • 1. Learn compás (rhythm) and several falsetas for Colombiana and Malagueña.
  • 2. Arrange your compás and falsetas into unique solos.
  • 3. Recognize Colombiana and Malagueña when you hear them.
  • 4. Expand your technical abilities in flamenco guitar, particularly in rasgueo, alzapua, and arpeggio techniques.
  • 5. Deepen your understanding of flamenco compás in two different rhythms.
  • 6. Enjoy playing two new palos with flamenco guitar enthusiasts all over the world!

Skill Level

One year of playing experience (any style) is recommended. Ideally, students will already know basic chord shapes and be able to change chords smoothly. Being comfortable with barre chords will help.

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.


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When

The class will meet for ten weekly 50-min live online sessions on Sundays at 1 pm ET | 10 am PT | 17:00 UTC on the schedule below. The first session is on June 4.
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Enrolled students receive lifetime access to the video recordings of the classes.

Aug
6th
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM EDT
Exploring Flamenco: Malagueña and Colombiana
Leah Kruszewski

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Students Say

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Eric F. on September 4, 2022
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Today's lesson was the perfect first class for learning Granaina and Solea por Bulerias. Nothing looks too difficult to learn, and at the same time, nothing looks too easy either. A great balance of technique explanations and compas. I'm really looking forward to next week's lesson!


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Jarek on July 6, 2022
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Great, challenging, sometimes, but fun. highly recommended!


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Paul M. on July 6, 2022
Class: Exploring Flamenco: Seguiriyas and Alegrias

Really good with a lot of new and challenging pieces to learn. All were explained and taught thoroughly and access to the videos is very helpful


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Verified Student on July 5, 2022
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Interesting with new palos, which will require more work to incorporate into my learning


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Verified Student on June 24, 2022
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Leah does such a great job organizing the class and teaching the fundamentals. Our daughter has learned SO much and really enjoys herself each class.


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Jarek L. on May 8, 2022
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Verified Student on April 13, 2022
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Challenging


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Ami S. on March 21, 2022
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This class was worth every moment! Leah is so knowledgeable and covers an impressive amount of material in this course. My musicianship was taken up several levels by the material in her course. I highly recommend any interested guitar player to roll up your sleeves and check out this value-packed class.


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Lou D. on March 20, 2022
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As always, lessons with Leah are great, well explained and technically challenging. Since I've been taking lessons with Leah, my guitar playing has improved greatly.


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Eric F. on March 20, 2022
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As always, it was a real privilege to be in this group! Leah's teaching style is perfect--so much is covered in each lesson, but never at a pace that's too overwhelming. She has a wonderful sense of where we are, which must be very difficult, as everyone's at a different playing level. We are encouraged to ask questions and to share answers as well as play something if we so choose. Besides all these points, I'd just like to mention how incredibly helpful it is to review the recordings from each week's lesson. I'm really looking forward to the next class, beginning May 1--meanwhile, I've got plenty of material to practice!


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Jack B. on March 20, 2022
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Very informative and a challenge for me


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Verified Student on March 20, 2022
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Leah was AMAZING!!!


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Eric F. on September 26, 2021
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This was a fantastic lesson today! Leah's pace was just right for my playing ability--she want slowly enough so that I could keep up and yet not too slowly, thus keeping things challenging. I like the way she always demonstrates how to play things in a basic way and then shows us a "fancier" more musically interesting way to play it. Very much looking forward to next class!


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Hayes D. on July 27, 2021
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Leah is very attentive. She gives you multiple chances to understand what she`s talking about. She gives examples at the beginning of the class, explains how to do what she is teaching, takes questions, excepts different interpretations and points of view, and gives students a chance to play. She also gives examples at the end, first playing slowly, and then faster, so that we really get to hear the piece and appreciate its potential. Thanks Leah!


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Neil G. on May 11, 2021
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exciting and challenging new tools. Looking forward to the next class.


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Liga V. on March 20, 2021
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My son has been taking group lesson since January and is having a lot of fun learning a new song every week. Thanks so much for this opportunity!

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Leah Kruszewski

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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