Juan Serrano: Flamenco Classical Guitar Tradition: Guitar TAB: Instrumental

This beginning guitar method is written for aspiring classical or flamenco guitarists who want to learn how to read music up to the intermediate level. Music from the Spanish tradition such as Romanza Pica-Pica El Vito Café delas Chinitas Perfid a La Virgen de la Macarena and flamenco music of Juan Serrano provides a technical and musical foundation that improves facility in playing scales arpeggios tremelo and rasgueado. Tablature is notincluded as the one of the primary aims of this book is to improve note reading and the comprehension of the fundamental elements of music. Performances of all musical examples are available online that includes one performance attempo for each of the more than 230 musical examples. Short repertoire pieces from Gaspar Sanz Dionisio Aguado Fernando Sor Mauro Guiliani Ferdinand Carulli and Mateo Carcassi are included at the end of the book and arerepertoire studies that will prepare guitarists for further study in classical and/or flamenco guitar.