Hi all,

I'm Ricardo from Melbourne in Australia. I started teaching my self flamenco guitar about 2 years ago via YouTube. This worked Ok until I found myself learning lazy techniques. I struggled to find a teacher in Melbourne but eventually found a dance studio that welcomed guitarists. I started taking lessons twice a month for a year now and haves enjoyed every bit of it. I just started a blog which I hope will help other guitarists, specially in Melbourne. Please visit blog.salunas.id.au

There seems to be a fair amount of interest in flamenco in Australia. At least, there are several flamenco websites, YouTube videos, and occasional forum posts from "down-under." I traveled around Australia on business trips long ago and don't recall ever coming across a live performance, but maybe I could have if I had been looking. Sometimes in life we only see what we expect to find.

-Bob

There's lots of interest but hard to find guitars and teachers. I found a dance studio which encourages guitarists to come and practice. I love it.

¡Hola Mexicano!
I think that the idea of accompanying flamenco dance is more valuable than sometimes some guitarists can imagine.
If you accompany baile and you know only 2 chords but you make them perfectly in compás and with the correct feel for the dancers effectively you are getting closer to flamenco.
I have had students come to me after years of lessons either on the internet of with teachers and the truth is they can play the guitar and they can play complete pieces but when they come to a dance class of my wife and she says maybe: ok can you give me a nice little escobilla for soleá they have no idea what she means.
Another example is that they may learn to play a beautiful Granaína and then they do not know how to build their own falsetas because they do not know the fundamental structure of Granaína and certainly cannot accompany the cante.
So I wish you well and empathise that your work you are doing now is probably going to be most helpful to you.

Saludos

Tomás