Flamenco

This is just a general question refering to Flamenco. How is it played? They use a pick or is it some kind of odd fingerpicking style? How do they strum and such? I could listen to it for hours... Spanish , Mexican and such right?

I am assuming none of you know and therefore you all fail. Or else it doesn't interest you. Either way, for some reason you've got nothing to gain by pretending to be the master artist on this subject. bah.

at least point me to some goddamn webpage to check out you selfish bastards.

heres an idea..why dont you quit bitchin at us and take your lazy ass to a search engine such as yahoo.com, google.com, altavista.com and type in "flamenco" or maybe even "flamenco guitar" I would have never thought of that...you would be very suprised at what you might find...Its not our priority to explain every single thing to people...
theres my 3 cents

As far as strumming is concerned it's just a case of raking each individual finger accross the strings shortly after each other, just like your brushing the strings with your hand.(can't rememebr the musical term for it) Im not sure about the way individual notes are played together though, never researched the style.

I can't find a decent link to free lessons quick enough... so i'll leave that to you :)

If your serious about learning then your probably best buying a book on the technique, free web classes are usually sh**

- J

my appologies as I'm hitting the bottle tonight. frolicking in fight or **** land. I think i'll do just that, ketchup. check google i mean.

Jamiephofe, thanks and I agree. I can kind of imitate the sound by flicking my middle finger across the strings real quick like. I'm going to look into to it though.

The strumming technique is called rasgeudo (sg pronounced like H in spanish). There are many different methods of doing this, the most common being pinky, 3rd, 2nd, 1st, followed by an up-stroke w/the 1st. This pattern would occur during 1 beat, the P321 being 32 notes, and the up stroke being an 1/8th note. Having fingernails will help you.

Single notes are played using the fingers...very simuliar to classical style but with a bit more finger nail attack and the hand held more in a curved fashion.

The songs are based off of specific forms (Solea, Bulerias, Sevilla, rhumba, etc.) that specify where the accents will fall.

Ah, thanks for that Chris. That's how I've played it before. P321, just didn't know the name, or how to explain it very well!

Not a technique I use very often.

- J