Toques Flamencos (Spanish Edition)

I bought this book years ago, but the CD was not included and I recently repurchased this edition and was 100% satisfied. The quality of the book and CD are excellent and and useful for beginner or advanced player. I have been studying Flamenco for years and Paco Pena is essential to the pantheon of Flamenco players and your personal growth as a player. Great pieces to study and perform which includes techniques and fingerings that will have you playing Toques Flamencos in no time at all.The tab and standard notation are crisp and clear and consistent with the audio CD. Not sure why this is labeled "Spanish Edition" since English is the primary language and this is a Hal Leonard publication.

The pieces are difficult but doable. A fine place to start for those interested in building a repertoire of solid flamenco "standards".

This is a fantastic collection of solos. If you do not yet know techniques like rasgueos, iami tremolo, reasonably fast pulgar and picado, as well as sweeping arpeggios, I recommend an easier text, such as either of the popular guitar methods here on amazon (Juan Martin has one and Martinez another). Once you have the fundamental basics of these skill down, I then recommend getting a graded study of flamenco guitar solos, my favorite is Juan Martin. Once you reach level 5 or 6, then you will be ready for this book. Everything in this book should be practiced slowly and in compas at first, I highly recommend getting an app which lets you manipulate the speed of mp3 files so that you may be able to listen to it slowly and figure it out. I also highly recommend listening to this disc and other flamenco pieces consistently in your free time, as this is the only way for those of us not living in Spain to immerse ourselves in the art. The notation and tablature are easy to read, but it assumes that you will not require right hand guides as you should already know them at this level. Last but not least, don't let these become your only falsetas. At this level, you should be able to write your own and manipulate the palos to give them your own emotion and character. You should also use free websites and youtube guitar lessons to collect as many falsetas as you can to become a proficient and fluid performer. These are all high quality, concert pieces, and each will take at least a month to learn before it becomes performable.

The CD doesn't sound like a CD of a teaching book, it is a CD that you like to play regardless of the book. Peña plays sweet and fiery. And bloody fast of course.One of the pieces (the rumba) is almost playable. Biggest issue on that one is again the speed.It is almost impossible to learn Flamenco without a teacher. I'm lucky to have one of the best and most virtuoso ones in the world (he's worthy of much better students than me). I plan to soon take the book and the first pieces to him.They could have left out the tablature as far as I'm concerned.

Musically the book and CD are excellent, the notation is somewhat difficult to understand regarding the right-hand techniques.The book is not chronologically in order of difficulty.I am going to spend more time with the Flaminco Guitar Method vol.1, by Gerhard Graf-Martinez before trying to master this.

Came very well packed. Very good.

An excellent piece of material of learning flamenco !

This book has really improved my playing abilities. It is hard at first, but if you stick with it, you can learn to play some good flamenco.

伝統的なファルセータやリズムを使った曲集です。この本に出てくるファルセータを弾くために必要なテクニックを磨いていけば、ギター音楽に必要なテクニックを網羅できます。楽譜やタブ譜がついているので、音を出すだけなら誰でもすぐにできます。音を出すだけに満足して、人前に見せびらかしているようでは、高いレベルに到達することは不可能です。CDや著者であるパコ・ペーニャの奏法の解説動画をyoutubeで観るなどして、本物に近づくことを目指して取り組むことでより深くギターについて学ぶことができます。音を出すだけで満足せずにこの1冊を完璧にすれば、日本で活動しているプロ以上のギタリストになれます。しかし、使っている人が慢心で音を出すだけで満足すれば、大して学べない教則本です。

Great Flamenco book! I've heard that by playing the whole book you can put on a concert! Amazing pieces of music, but long, and amazing techniques. A teacher might be needed when wanting to learn the book to clarify the techniques, but if you have played flamenco guitar before you are fine.

パコ・ペーニャの演奏はフラメンコの教科書のような気がしますが、それが楽譜になっているので、すばらしいです。TAB譜も載っていて、CDもついている。曲目は11曲で、ほとんどの種類が含まれているが、ブレリアスが入ってないのが、残念。英語版なので、解説を読むのは若干手間がかかると思う。でもこのようなもの日本のお店では売っていませんね。

I had, 30 years ago , come across a flamenco tab book by a hiralousously english chap (John Martin,from shoreham) made up as "Juan Martin" - very very easy stuff.Put that one away -this is the master at work.LISTEN to the cd and practice practice and practice some more, research the compas and the golpe and the other techniques, then get started -it WILL take you YEARS to master this beginners guide, like many others, i have nbeen playing western rcok and blue metal etc for decades, its all good with reverb and a wah wah? This is the real deal folks - you must master technique and be incredibly dedicated. Once you get a decent Rasgueado and say tremolo technique (far from easy) you will LOVE playing at least a version of this beautiful album. My personal fave is a farruca and he destroys my heart with his version here. Its missing a tap of the shoe (zapateado) but we cant expect everything. Indulge and immerse yourself in flamenco -learn Spanish and point out a sevillanas on the radio next time you are in a shop and spanish people have the radio on -they will love you. This is great, by the way......practice.

Fantastic music but not for the beginner or the faint hearted. I've been casually playing classical and electric guitars for 30 years and I find the music in this book a significant challenge, but I'm loving it. The tab gives good finger positions to help you along the way, it also describes some of the flamenco specific techniques which are required for the piece's. I love this book but it's going to be a long study period.