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Flamenco guitarists are known as tocaores (from an Andalusian pronunciation of tocadores, "players") and the flamenco guitar technique is known as toque. Flamenco players tend to play the guitar between the sound hole and the bridge, but as close as possible to the bridge, to produce a harsher, rasping sound quality.
His experience playing the tenor banjo led him to create the "Eddie Freeman Special 4-String Guitar" for the Selmer Music Company, and towards the end of his career, he made accurate transcriptions of the music of famous flamenco guitarists, taught flamenco guitar,.and designed and constructed his own flamenco and classical guitars.
Tambour (also called tambor, tamboro or tambora, written in music as tamb.), is a technique in Flamenco guitar and classical guitar that emulates the sound of a heartbeat. The player uses a flat part of the hand, usually the side of the outstretched right thumb, or also the edge of the palm below the little finger, and sounds the strings by striking them rapidly just inside the bridge of the ...
Golpe is mostly used in flamenco guitar. It is a finger tap on the golpeador ("pick guard"). Technique.
Marcus Nand (born Merseyside, England) is a guitarist, singer-songwriter, producer, and sound engineer best known for his work with flamenco guitar.After learning rock, blues, and flamenco in Spain in his youth, he has been based in Los Angeles since the 1990s.
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.
Óscar Herrero is a Flamenco guitarist from Spain. He was born in Tomelloso ( Ciudad Real ) on 12 March 1959. Oscar Herrero has authored several flamenco guitar teaching DVDs and didactic textbooks.
Juan Martín is the author of several textbooks on flamenco playing, including El Arte Flamenco de la Guitarra, [11] issued with cassette tapes and later with vinyl sound sheets, and Solos Flamencos issued with CDs and DVDs.