Mel Bay

Authors: Juan Martin, Patrick Campbell
Format: Book with Audio and Video Online
Instrumentation: Guitar
Level: Beginning-Intermediate

Designed as a comprehensive multimedia teaching set, this book with online audio/video presents 42 solos, progressively graded in 6 levels from absolute beginners to more advanced, to suit players of all levels. It contains examples of eighteen different palos (rhythmic forms) of flamenco, with a wealth of melodic falsetas and rhythms. The music for all these is accurately written in notation and flamenco tab (cifra) in the book, and is also recorded on the online audio. The online video contains over 57 minutes of solo music, and also includes introduction by Juan Martn and brief scenes of Andalucia today, which help to place this profoundly exciting and deeply felt music in the landscape of its origins.

Juan Martn has succeeded here in showing how even music which is simple and very easy to start with can express the essential sound and emotion of flamenco, to build step by step the skills necessary for the performance of concert solos. Written in English and Spanish. Includes access to online audio and video.