Free Flamenco Guitar Lessons
Free Online Flamenco Guitar Lessons from LAGA
We are offering the first few of our online Flamenco guitar lessons for beginners free—just by scrolling down to the lesson menu at the bottom of this page and clicking on each lesson in order. For those of you who already have a taste for Flamenco music, we believe that once you get a taste of the quality we offer, you will want to sign up for our unlimited program. Our online Flamenco guitar teachers are not just guitarists from other genres that have learned to play a rasgueado or two. They have learned from some of the best Flamenco guitarists on the planet, and want to pass that learning on to you in the time-honored Flamenco tradition–passing knowledge down from teacher to student. We provide a systematic structure to the traditional method of rote learning. Secondly, we believe that our online Flamenco course will help just about any guitarist improve his or her chops!
How Can These Beginners’ Online Flamenco Guitar Lessons Help Me?
Online Flamenco guitar lessons give guitarists from nearly every playing style and level—beginner to advanced—several important advantages. Fundamental to Flamenco music is the compas, the internal pulse of the music. Becoming more sensitive to the rhythmic pulse, a talent keenly honed when you study Flamenco guitar lessons, will help you better internalize the rhythm of almost every type of music. Regardless of your primary musical style, learning Flamenco rasgueados will give you a balanced right-hand technique by developing the extensor muscles of your forearm. These skills are especially important in playing the classical guitar, as well as in many other genres.
Furthermore, in your online Flamenco guitar lessons, you will learn to compose your own variations very early on in your training. Learning to create these variations will give you a powerful advantage in songwriting and arranging. Furthermore, since learning to think of variations provides an important foundation for improvisation—a skill needed in any genre of playing the guitar: rock, country, blues, jazz, folk, or Latin. Learning to play the Flamenco guitar will turbocharge your performance potential. Even classical guitarists can benefit from this aspect of Flamenco guitar study!
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Click on each lesson, following the exact order in which we teach them. Only in this way can you experience the strength of the curriculum in its full integrity. This will maximize your progress as you move through the lessons. Enjoy your excursion into the world of the Flamenco guitar!
Free Lesson Menu
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 1: Basic Sitting Position
One of the most important things to learn as you begin your study of the Flamenco guitar is that a proper sitting position is important to…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 2: Nail Preparation
Flamenco guitarists use their thumb (called 'p'), the index finger (called 'i'), the middle finger (called 'm'), and the ring finger…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 3: Using a Capo on the Third Fret
Flamenco guitarists often use an artificial nut (also called a "capo" or a "cejilla") to transpose the open string notes up to the…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 4: Left-hand Basics
This simple left-hand exercise will develop a strong foundation for your left-hand technique. It is also an excellent warm-up exercise that you can…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 5: Right-hand Basics
Now that you have gotten comfortable with using your left hand to get familiar with your guitar's fingerboard, it is time to move on to…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 6: Coordinating Your Hands
Now that we have a solid foundation for both hands, it is time to start putting them together so you can start making music. Coordinating…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 7: Flick Drills – Building Blocks of Rasgueados
The passion in Flamenco music arises from its rhythmic structure, articulated well by one of the foundational techniques of the Flamenco…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 8: Golpe
Golpe is a tap on the body of the guitar with a, p, and sometimes with e during a Flamenco piece. Flamenco guitars come with a "golpeador"…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 9: Soleares: Introduction and Mode
Soleares, one of the oldest and most traditional forms in Flamenco music, is based on the Phrygian mode. We'll start studying this form…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 10: Soleares – Extended Phrygian Scale
While listening to Soleares pieces, you will occasionally hear some notes which lie outside of the standard Phrygian scale that we studied…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 11: Phrygian Degrees
This lesson is probably the most important in all of these introductory lessons, because it will teach you about the basic construction of…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 12: The Compas of Soleares
Compas is one of the most important concepts to grasp in Flamenco music. Compas is the rhythm cycle of a Flamenco piece. Each Flamenco form has its…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 13: Basic Soleares Falsetta
Before you start this lesson, it would be a good idea to review what you have learned so far. If there are any areas that you feel that are needing…
Free Flamenco Guitar Lesson 44: Malaguena
Here is a sample lesson that comes at the very beginning of Level Two in our Flamenco I course. As you can see, even at this level, you will be…
Lessons 14-43
In these lessons, we cover more Soleares falsettas in just about every variation you can imagine, remates, rasgueado variations, drills to strengthen…
Lessons 45-658
We, the faculty and staff of Los Angeles Guitar Academy, hope that you have enjoyed our online Flamenco guitar lessons so far. We hope this gave you…
