Toque Carrasco

has been revamping my right hand mechanics. This is not representative of what she's been showing me! Haha.

I just got really frustrated today trying to practice the things she's showing me. Changing so much about the way I have been playing for the last 5-6 years is really difficult. Not to mention the 20+ years of playing that I did before I even knew that flamenco was a thing. Anyway, I got frustrated so I decided to take a break and learn something new. This is a falseta from the book Systematic Studies for Flamenco Guitar by Juan Serrano. I have one more to learn for Fandangos de Huelva before I move on to Tarantas.

Some Fandangos de Huelva stuff.

I THINK this is in compas? It's hard to tell sometimes with the YouTube loops that I practice with.

Started working on relearning all my Fandangos de Huelva stuff today. This is a fun falseta to play.

I arranged a bunch of random Farruca falsetas into a solo piece. It's pretty sloppy but what it lacks in technical ex*****on it makes up for in length, haha.

I play abanico rasgeados two different ways. This one is the primary way with thumb up, MI down, thumb down. I believe it's called abanico grande. The other way is thumb up, A down, I down. I believe that is called abanico chico. I am way more comfortable and consistent with grande so it's primarily the one I default to. But I definitely need to work more on the other one.

Still trying to remember everything I've ever learned. I broke my thumbnail over the weekend and everything feels weird now.

I am working on remembering everything I've learned over the past few years and trying to catalog things in a more organized way so that I don't forget everything again. I know the first falseta is from of but I don't remember where the second one comes from. Probably just a traditional that I learned from a book or something. Farruca is one of my favorite palos to play.

I think these are both from Sabicas but I don't remember.

There aren't many opportunities to accompany cante in or around Dallas/Fort Worth TX. But thankfully made these great tracks to practice to.