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Rasgueado (also called Golpeado, [1] Rageo (spelled so or Rajeo), Rasgueo or Rasgeo in Andalusian dialect and flamenco jargon, or even occasionally Rasqueado) is a guitar finger strumming technique commonly associated with flamenco guitar music. It is also used in classical and other fingerstyle guitar picking techniques.
Tablature is common for fretted stringed instruments such as the guitar, lute or vihuela, as well as many free reed aerophones such as the harmonica. Tablature was common during the Renaissance and Baroque eras, and is commonly used today in notating many forms of music.
The term Gypsy scale refers to one of several musical scales named after their support of and association with Romani or "Gypsy" music, the latter being considered derogatory.
The playing of conventional chords is simplified by open tunings, which are especially popular in folk, blues guitar and non-Spanish classical guitar (such as English and Russian guitar). For example, the typical twelve-bar blues uses only three chords, each of which can be played (in every open tuning) by fretting six strings with one finger.
[23] [24] [citation needed] Although some correlation can be made between Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (especially the arpeggio), the Romance guitar piece and the Ukrainian folk song, the Ukrainian version has enjoyed much success through Eastern Europe and Russia and is vastly different from the Spanish/Argentine song and its various ...
Classical guitar, a six-stringed guitar with nylon strings; Flamenco guitar, similar to a classical guitar but commonly found in Spain and Latin America "Spanish Guitar" (song), a 2000 song by Toni Braxton "Spanish Guitar", a 1971 song by Gene Clark from his album White Light "Spanish Guitar", a 1978 song by Gary Moore from his album Back on ...
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The guitarrón is used in Mexican Mariachi groups, which usually consist of at least two violins, two trumpets, one Spanish guitar, a vihuela (a high-pitched, five-string guitar-type instrument), and the guitarrón. A strap is usually used to keep the instrument up and playable.