Traditional Flamenco Guitar, Vol. 1, Traditional Flamenco Guitar, Vol. 2, and Traditional Flamenco Guitar, Vol. 3 are unique and authentic methods for the Flamenco guitar written in conventional musical notation and in tablature. Each volume is available through Amazon.com. The books contain the principal techniques and selections of the most popular rhythms and compositions of the flamenco art to accompany the dance and guitar solos by the famous maestro, Mariano Cordoba. Each book contains a CD of all the musical arrangements.
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Until recent years, there had been no practical instruction books on Flamenco music and the teaching methods had varied from no text at all, learning by ear and imitation and at best with the pupil and teacher facing each other with his own guitar; to the diagrammatic representation of the guitar strings in a hexagram as the background for the conventions of the tablature method.
My instruction books represent both the conventional musical notations with the characteristic pentagram and the tablature's hexagram and the conventions with timing in the same text. The merit of these texts lies in the exercises and progressions of the techniques to build proficiency in the art of playing the Flamenco guitar. Included with each book is a CD of the musical selections so that the student can hear how each rhythm should sound.
In my books you will find encouragement whether you are a beginner or an advanced student. The beginner will start earlier on the right path and the advanced student will find things available only from a dedicated Flamenco teacher. Learning by ear takes many years and there are many errors that can be avoided with a knowledge of the musical notation and rules.
My advice to students is to learn first the musical values and to practice the measure of time with the foot. This will help you to advance rapidly in understanding the complicated rhythms of Flamenco. With my books, the student will acquire an understanding of what is Flamenco music and its meaning.
About the Author
Maestro Mariano Cordoba was born in a Castilliam village in the province of Guadalajara, Spain. As a young boy, Maestro Cordoba began taking lessons from Rafael Nogales, a great teacher of the Flamenco guitar. After a year of study with Maestro Nogales, practicing ten hours a day, Maestro Cordoba began playing with small professional groups. He began to play for the well-known Flamenco dancers, Maria Martin and Paco Torres, and for the dancing school of Rafael Cruz. He began playing for the wonderful singer, Antonio Molina, and the great dancer, Flora Albaicin. In Barcelona, two years later, he met the greatest Flamenco dancer of them all, Antonio, who was organizing his own troupe, and called our artist to Madrid to be his guitarist. His career then flourished with the beginning of extensive tours throughout Europe and the Americas and with nationwide television appearances in the U.S. He fell in love with the city of San Francisco and decided to make it his home! . He began to give concerts and to teach Flamenco guitar to San Francisco aficionados. He became a recording artist with Capitol Records and signed a contract with Oak Publications in New york to publish his books on Flamenco music. Since then he has devoted himself to writing books, recordings, giving concerts, and in particular, to teaching his students to feel the great pleasure that can come from playing this marvelous instrument. In San Francisco, he was presented one of the highest awards ever given to a guitarist. the "Don Quijote de la Mancha," by the Spanish language magazine " El Quijote." He continues to teach his beloved music in the South Bay Area.
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Good material, but many omissions,
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This review is from: Traditional Flamenco Guitar, Vol. 2 (Spiral-bound)
The author, although a longtime resident of California, was born in Spain in 1924, and (judging by a very interesting biographical handout that came with the tutor) certainly paid his dues in the grinding poverty of the flamenco world before, during and after the Civil war. His big break came in 1952, when Antonio chose him for the dance company with which he toured the world. He fell in love with Carmen Ruiz, who was dancing with the company, and in '56 they returned to her native San Francisco, where they opened a flamenco nightclub called El Patio Andaluz.
Sr. Córdoba's credentials are thus impeccable, and this tutor is obviously a labour of love. The three hefty volumes are 150-200 pages each, but as the text is presented in both Spanish and English, and the music in both staff notation and tablature (cifra), the content is only half what it might appear to be. Furthermore, 24 pages are repeated at the start of each volume. The author's remarks on the tape are likewise given in both languages. There is a lot of good material in this tutor, much of it original, and I know people who are successfully teaching out of it; but there are many glaring omissions. There is nothing on holding the guitar, nails, hand position, tuning, golpeadores, or putting strings on properly. But most alarming of all, NOWHERE is there any explanation of compás or its importance, the most fundamental concept in all of Flamenco. The Fandangos de Huelva commence, incomprehensibly, on beat 10. The Serranas, instead of being written in the usual 3/4 + 6/8, are written (admittedly accurately but still confusingly) in 2/4 + 3/8 + 3/8 + 1/4. The playing on the cassette is no better than adequate. The books are well produced, presented and printed, and spiral-bound to open flat. The English is good. Because of the omissions cited above, this would not be my first choice for a tutor. It DOES contain a lot of accurate, useful and attractive material (and exercises), and in this sense it can be recommended.
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