Home :: Books :: Entertainment  

Arts & Photography
Audio CDs
Audiocassettes
Biographies & Memoirs
Business & Investing
Children's Books
Christianity
Comics & Graphic Novels
Computers & Internet
Cooking, Food & Wine
Entertainment

Gay & Lesbian
Health, Mind & Body
History
Home & Garden
Horror
Literature & Fiction
Mystery & Thrillers
Nonfiction
Outdoors & Nature
Parenting & Families
Professional & Technical
Reference
Religion & Spirituality
Romance
Science
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Sports
Teens
Travel
Women's Fiction
Traditional Flamenco Guitar, Vol. 1

Traditional Flamenco Guitar, Vol. 1

List Price: $50.00
Your Price: $42.50
Product Info Reviews

<< 1 >>

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beautifully arranged traditional flamenco music
Review: A rare find. Mr Cordoba has artistically arranged traditional flamenco guitar music. The songs are written both for readers and non-readers of music. Easy to follow instructions will have you playing in no time.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Outstanding Music Reference for any Flamenco Guitar student
Review: I have been learning Mariano's music through this book, both traditional arrangements of popular flamenco themes and Mariano's original compositions. I find the writing extremely helpful in that it shows all details of the left hand and right hand fingering, as well as rythmic details. Not being formally educated in music annotation, I have struggled in the past with Flamenco partitions by other authors that I could not make sense of. With Mariano's impeccable dual notation, I've been able to play his great Flamenco music and actually feel how it's supposed to sound like.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: not worth its value...
Review: im an intermediate flamenco guitar player. i bought this book thinking it would add to my techniques and knowledge. IT DIDN'T. its written for BEGINNERS. and the price its valued at is way too high for the material presented. I've seen books incuding materials, both better in quality and quantity, yet are sold for half the price or slightly more. unless ur a beginner wanting to waste ur money... look for other books.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent instuctional & educational book on flamenco guitar
Review: Mr. Cordoba is an excellent guitarist and teacher. His books clearly instruct the methods of flamenco guitar. Many techniques are shown with great exercises to refine your technique. He also gives background information for each song. A must for anyone learning flamenco guitar.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent traditional approach to Flamenco Guitar
Review: Senior Cordoba's life has been flamenco guitar. His teaching technique is excellent. The first pieces you learn are real flamenco with which you could accompany dancers but are graded in a way that doesn't overwelm the beginner. His music is very traditional flamenco and is a very good preparation for playing with the dancer or singer. Most other approaches are more oriented toward solo guitar work. Even if you are mainly oriented towards solo guitar, Mariano's books will give you

a solid foundation on which you can always rely.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent traditional approach to Flamenco Guitar
Review: Senior Cordoba's life has been flamenco guitar. His teaching technique is excellent. The first pieces you learn are real flamenco with which you could accompany dancers but are graded in a way that doesn't overwelm the beginner. His music is very traditional flamenco and is a very good preparation for playing with the dancer or singer. Most other approaches are more oriented toward solo guitar work. Even if you are mainly oriented towards solo guitar, Mariano's books will give you

a solid foundation on which you can always rely.

Rating: 0 stars
Summary: The Art of Learning to Play the Flamenco Guitar
Review: Until recent years, there had been no practical instuction 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 the 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.


<< 1 >>

© 2004, ReviewFocus or its affiliates