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The Flamenco Sound
Easy way to learn the flamenco voicing a from a great instructor
Chord Studies: Flamenco Chords Vol. 1
Theory and harmony instructionals filled with chord construction strategies and applications
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About this course
In this first volume of Flamenco Chord Studies, you'll get an introduction to the exotic sounds of flamenco guitar. You'll develop an assortment of fresh chord voicings to use over a 6/8 groove as you develop your chops using authentic, Spanish sounding extensions including an assortment of 11 b9 chords and 7 add b9 chords. This pack will help you expand your chord vocabulary in any style with new colorful and mysterious flamenco sounds.
Bubba would be right — there’s a wide and wonderful world of chords for we guitarists to explore. But what’s the best way to do that? Chord dictionaries might be handy references but there’s no context (and really, when’s the last time you looked at one of those?).
Theory and harmony instructionals are filled with chord construction strategies and applications and we highly recommend digging as deep into the science of chords as your left brain will allow you.
However, learning new chords, progressions, applications and right-hand techniques in a musical context (songs, etudes, jamming with other players, etc.) is the most popular approach and that is the educational premise behind Brad’s Carlton’s Chord Studies course seres.
Each edition of Chord Studies features 15 play-along and jammable chord studies, which are focused on a particular chord type, chord progression or chord application. While Brad does touch on rhythmic qualities, this is not a rhythm guitar course — these studies are specifically designed to significantly expand your chord know-how and vocabulary.
Brad covers a range of styles, levels , chord types and progressions across 10 editions: CAGED Chords, Jazz Blues Progressions, Open String Chords, Rock and Pop Progressions, Slow Blues Progressions, Evolving Blues, Evolving Triads, Slash Chords, Power Chords and Beginner Chords.
Each of the 15 Studies within an edition includes an overview from Brad followed by a performance and play-along of the chord study over a rhythm track. Chord grid charts and a chord lead sheet accompanies each study. Plus, you’ll get all of the practice rhythm tracks to work with on your own.
Reference the chord charts to become familiar with the voicings and their fingerings, and then use the lead sheet to play-along with Brad’s video performance. Try different rhythmic patterns over the supplied rhythm tracks and then take it all to your own playlist of songs and jam tracks.
About the Chord Studies Series
If Forest Gump’s shrimp-loving Bubba played guitar, his take on chords might go something like this, ”You can strum ‘em, fingerpick ‘em, arpeggiate ‘em, mute ‘em, alternate tune ‘em, voice lead ‘em. Dey’s uh, barre chords, altered chords, extended chords, moveable chords, cluster chords, slash chords, inversions, triads, diads. There’s jazz chords, power chords, blues chords, cowboy chords, block chords, open chords…”Bubba would be right — there’s a wide and wonderful world of chords for we guitarists to explore. But what’s the best way to do that? Chord dictionaries might be handy references but there’s no context (and really, when’s the last time you looked at one of those?).
Theory and harmony instructionals are filled with chord construction strategies and applications and we highly recommend digging as deep into the science of chords as your left brain will allow you.
However, learning new chords, progressions, applications and right-hand techniques in a musical context (songs, etudes, jamming with other players, etc.) is the most popular approach and that is the educational premise behind Brad’s Carlton’s Chord Studies course seres.
Each edition of Chord Studies features 15 play-along and jammable chord studies, which are focused on a particular chord type, chord progression or chord application. While Brad does touch on rhythmic qualities, this is not a rhythm guitar course — these studies are specifically designed to significantly expand your chord know-how and vocabulary.
Brad covers a range of styles, levels , chord types and progressions across 10 editions: CAGED Chords, Jazz Blues Progressions, Open String Chords, Rock and Pop Progressions, Slow Blues Progressions, Evolving Blues, Evolving Triads, Slash Chords, Power Chords and Beginner Chords.
Each of the 15 Studies within an edition includes an overview from Brad followed by a performance and play-along of the chord study over a rhythm track. Chord grid charts and a chord lead sheet accompanies each study. Plus, you’ll get all of the practice rhythm tracks to work with on your own.
Reference the chord charts to become familiar with the voicings and their fingerings, and then use the lead sheet to play-along with Brad’s video performance. Try different rhythmic patterns over the supplied rhythm tracks and then take it all to your own playlist of songs and jam tracks.
What you'll learn
- Execute an E11b9 chord with proper voicing
- Use body positioning to improve reach on difficult voicings
- Execute a stretchy E11b9 voicing using half-bar technique
- Understand how to construct extended chords from simpler triads
- Control intonation through proper left hand pressure
Release date: 12/25/2015 • 1h 16m runtime
Sample lessons
Flamenco Chords Vol. 1
Overview
Flamenco Flats
Overview
Flamenco Flats
Playalong
Crossfire
Overview
What's included
32 lessons • 15 charts • 1 Jam Tracks
Chord Studies: Flamenco Chords Vol. 1
In this first volume of Flamenco Chord Studies, you'll get an introduction to the exotic sounds of flamenco guitar. You'll develop an assortment of fresh chord voicings to use over a 6/8 groove as you develop your chops using authentic, Spanish sounding extensions including an assortment of 11 b9 chords and 7 add b9 chords. This pack will help you expand your chord vocabulary in any style with new colorful and mysterious flamenco sounds.
Flamenco Chords Vol. 1
In this first volume of Flamenco Chord Studies, you'll get an introduction to the exotic sounds of flamenco guitar. You'll develop an assortment of fresh chord voicings to use over a 6/8 groove as you develop your chops using authentic, Spanish sounding extensions including an assortment of 11 b9 chords and 7 add b9 chords. This pack will help you expand your chord vocabulary in any style with new colorful and mysterious flamenco sounds.
Flamenco Flats
This example is very simple but very effective for evoking the flamenco sound. You'll notice the b2 (F) note gives us the characteristic flamenco sound, coming out of the Phrygian dominant scale. A good exercise would be to practice trilling on and off the F with the fourth finger here.
Flamenco Flats
This example is very simple but very effective for evoking the flamenco sound. You'll notice the b2 (F) note gives us the characteristic flamenco sound, coming out of the Phrygian dominant scale. A good exercise would be to practice trilling on and off the F with the fourth finger here.
Crossfire
In Example 1, you had the fourth voice moving from an F to an E. The same thing happens in this example, but we also have the third voice moving from an A to a G#. Try using a cross fingering to open up the first and third fingers as guide fingers.
Crossfire
In Example 1, you had the fourth voice moving from an F to an E. The same thing happens in this example, but we also have the third voice moving from an A to a G#. Try using a cross fingering to open up the first and third fingers as guide fingers.
Slash Guide
This example is just like the previous example, except now we have a complete E11b9 as our first chord. Notice that again I'm using the cross fingering, so that way your first and third fingers can act as guide fingers.
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Reviews
3 results
timhack
Verified buyer
09/18/21
Flamenco Chords Volume 1
I appreciated the chord studies and how different voicings can be utilized depending on the song. Brad takes plenty of time going through the fingerings and how the different variations relate to one another. I had trouble identifying with the guitar sounds because he uses an electric guitar. For me, the individual string tones get lost on an electric. Additionally, I had trouble buying into some of the stretched cords he used. A classical or flamenco neck is much wider than an electric. I can't make some of the reaches. It would have been better for me if he had used a flamenco guitar for both the sounds and the chord voicings. That being said, I did purchase all three volumes in order to get the flamenco chord studies.
TomoStrat
06/30/21
This is where you start with flamenco
I never thought there were so many different positions, voicings and tricks around the simple addb9 flamenco chord. Some of the voicings are insanely difficult to get to ring, but Brad gives a lot of good advice on how to start practicing and finally nail them down. He also makes some smart points about basic body mechanics that people usually overlook. I had lots of fun just playing the phrygian dominant improvisations over the rhythm track. One thing I don’t understand though is why he used an electric guitar…as a lesson it still works, but the overall impression would simply be better if he played a nylon string acoustic or even a solid body nylon string electric guitar. Nevertheless, it’s still a good and valuable course. I just think that one little detail might disappoint some people, especially because there’s actually a classical guitar on the course picture.
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