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•Articles: Free Tab on the Web (9/25)
•Toque: Northside Grill III (9/22)
•Tab: 2 New Sevillanas (9/13)
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•Returning to A [book review]
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•Bulerías falseta
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So, you ask, what is the best way to learn the flamenco guitar? That's an easy one: move to Spain, find a mentor--preferably a gypsy--and settle in for five or six, heck, maybe ten years of cartilage grinding accompaniment, mind numbing repetition, and long, thankless hours practicing. What? Can't get the time off work? Well, lucky for us the tried and true method of the circa 1960's expatriate is no longer the only alternative.
Ravenna Flamenco is not your one stop solution. But it is here to help. If you have already performed even the most cursory internet search, you already know that there are dozens of "beginner information" sites, as many tabulature stockpiles, and at least as many lessons, books, and videos--all eagerly awaiting your first payment. Ravenna Flamenco intends to duplicate none of these models: rather, it is designed as a "magazine" precisely in order to fill in the informational gaps that fragmented or fixed offerings leave open.
What will you find here:
- An ever growing and searchable collection of original articles addressing topics of concern for the flamenco guitarist. Have a topic you think should be covered but which you don't see here? Suggest it!
- A tabulature transcription collection designed help guitarists grasp not only the technical side of flamenco guitar, but also to come to grips with the way the guitar fits in with flamenco cante (singing) and baile (dance). Tabs have been reviewed, formatted, and annotated to emphasize the palo (flamenco song form) represented.
- Videos of solo and accompaniment flamenco guitar designed to show the technique and "feel" of the flamenco guitar
- Multimedia flamenco metronomes engineered to help you capture the flamenco compás in your playing.
- Toque, the flamenco blog of guitarist and Ravenna Flamenco editor, Andy Fitzgerald, wherein are detailed the triumphs and tribulations of the pursuit of flamenco in the American Pacific Northwest.
What you will not find here:
- A catchall list of every "flamenco" tab (good, bad, or otherwise) on the internet: These lists exist in sufficient quantity already--no need to duplicate them here.
- A specific program of "lessons": These, again, exist in abundance on the web and elsewhere. Check them out. Buy them. Study them. Ravenna Flamenco is here to enhance--not replace--a systematic program of study. Whether you slog through a book or the 'net on your own, take online lessons, or (by far the best option) study with an accomplished flamenco teacher, the more you expose yourself to and learn of flamenco, the better the musician you will be.
- Stuff for sale: The careful observer will notice that many flamenco "magazines" found on the web seem to function primarily as shopping outlets and storefronts. Ravenna Flamenco is founded on the philosophy that information wants to be free. All the content on this site is--and will continue to be--100% gratis. (This philosophy does not extend to artists' proprietary work or copyrighted material--indeed, some of this the serious aficionado of flamenco would do well to procure.)
So how do you use Ravenna Flamenco? Peruse, browse, ask questions, make comments; watch some videos, read some articles, play along with the metronomes. Use the tools and information you find here to broaden your engagement with flamenco and with the guitar.
What do you think? No, really—I want to know: visitor input is what will allow me to tailor this site to what is useful for those of you who have stopped in here. These comment fields don't require your email or any registration—I just honestly want to know what you like and what you don't like—and what you would like to see more of. So go ahead; lay it on me: