Exploring Flamenco: Fandangos de Huelva and Farruca
About Exploring Flamenco: Fandangos de Huelva and Farruca
Learning two contrasting pieces of music at the same time is a great way to broaden your technical abilities and interpretive skills.
Fandangos de Huelva is a breezy, fun palo from the coastal city of Huelva. Lyrics are about life and love and often include folkloric or religious references. You’ll develop your arpeggio and picado techniques, challenge your playing velocity, and learn a light, relaxed style of rasgueo (flamenco strumming).
Farruca is an intense, traditionally masculine dance whose melody originated in the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia. Guitar solos feature rhythmic rasgueos (flamenco strumming) inspired by dance footwork, complemented by melodic arpeggios, tremolos, and picados. You’ll learn new varieties of rasgueos, challenge your picado velocity, and smooth out your tremolo.
You’ll end the course with a collection of compas variations and falsetas for Fandangos de Huelva and Farruca. We’ll cover how to arrange your repertoire into unique guitar solos.
What's Needed
Class 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 compas (rhythm) and several falsetas for Fandangos de Huelva and Farruca.
- 2. Arrange your material into unique solos.
- 3. Recognize Farruca and Fandangos de Huelva when you hear them.
- 4. Expand your technical abilities in flamenco guitar, particularly in rasgueos, arpeggios, and picado techniques.
- 5. Deepen your understanding of flamenco compas in two different rhythms.
- 6. Enjoy playing two new palos with flamenco guitar enthusiasts all over the world!
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When
The class will meet for ten weekly live online sessions.
PS: There will be no class on October 26th and November 30th.
Enrolled students receive lifetime access to the video recordings of the classes.
How It Works
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Leah Kruszewski
Welcome, students! I’m a flamenco and classical guitarist based in Seville, Spain, with seventeen years of teaching experience. I specialize in teaching flamenco compás, technique, and repertoire and in guiding classical guitarists in developing their technique, repertoire, sight-reading and interpretive skills.
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