Balczo | Spanish Guitar Strumming Techniques for flamenco guitar

Have you ever wanted to learn the secrets of playing Spanish style guitar? Do you have the urge 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", guitarist and YouTube phenomenon Edina Balczo teaches and demonstrates a wide array of 21st century strumming methods tailored for the Spanish guitar.

Included are 19 lessons, over 50 exercises, and many more illustrations, each with clear and precise instructions that include:

Chords and how to construct, and use them
Dozens of different strumming and other techniques
Exercises to help you to build up to the right speed

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.

You will learn some music theory during the first six lessons, such as how to read guitar tablature (TAB), how to notate rhythm, and the construction of the basic chords, including the major, minor and seventh chords. Each of these lessons contains a quiz to challenge your new-found knowledge and to ensure that you absorb the material as you proceed through the book.

You can also learn the following techniques from the Spanish Strum Book:

Basic rumba technique
Rumba technique variations
Pulgar
Flamenco triplet
Adding the hit to the flamenco triplet
Golpe strumming
Rasgueado
Muted rasgueado
Rasgueado variations
Hammer-on and Pull-off
Tango with rasgueado
Alzapua as a strumming technique
Drumming techniques

A wide variety of guitar instruction books are available which describe different styles of playing, music theory, soloing, jazz and improvisation, flamenco, fingerpicking and strumming techniques on steel string guitar. However, there are not many (or any) dedicated to Spanish guitar strumming techniques, so this book will be unique, revolutionary and a PIONEER of its kind!

Edina Balczo has been producing YouTube guitar lesson videos since 2007. Some of these videos have gone viral and have attracted world-wide attention among guitar students eager to learn the techniques she demonstrates. This book and the accompanying video lessons, which will include clear textual descriptions and professionally-produced video demonstrations of each technique, will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in mastering the Spanish guitar style.

• Model: 19107 / 9781789260533
• Manufactured by: Balczo, Edina
• Condition: New
• UPC: 9781789260533
• ISBN: 9781789260533