You may be interested in this David Buckingham six-part beginning Soleá tutorial with tabs. I have embedded a video player for the fourth part in the series as an example. -Bob

http://www.david-buckingham.com/workshop/flamenco/soleares/soleastudypiece.pdf
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc0L_k1bGqI
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSwaEu-QbN8
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC951AQbIR0
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5iS9zTVLrI
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQjPnZ2KoXo
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW3BO-NBOKE

Excellent, Bob.

Thank you.

Doog

I printed up the tab on this and messed around with it. Nice falsetas and a lot of fun.

thanks for posting this bob.

in the beginning, he does those triplet ragueados. i believe they're also called abanico or fan rasgueados, right? the way he does it (p-a-i) is how i do it but i've seen people also do p-i-p or p-am-p (a and m finger played together.) what do you guys prefer?

What I use for a Solea rasqueado triplet is p (dn)- p (up)- i (dn) etc. I work on the p (up) - am (dn) - p (dn) now and then but can't really do it smoothly with speed. What I do strumming the 12 beat compas is hard to explain. If all goes well I will try to record it this fall and draw it out. It is simple to play, but hard to explain. If it isn't simple, I don't play it.

Manos Lentas wrote:If it isn't simple, I don't play it.

good philosophy!

at_leo_87 wrote:thanks for posting this bob.

in the beginning, he does those triplet ragueados. i believe they're also called abanico or fan rasgueados, right? the way he does it (p-a-i) is how i do it but i've seen people also do p-i-p or p-am-p (a and m finger played together.) what do you guys prefer?

I first learned to play triplet fan rasgueados reasonably well using p-m-p, because that is what Luigi Marraccini indicates in the Verdiales in Volume 2 of his Flamenoc guitar Solos books that I was learning at the time. I found p-m-p triplets to be very awkward at first. However, after working on them intently for days, I eventually learned to play them that way reasonably well. Now playing them that way seems easy and natural.

Tutorials I had studied before that time had shown various other methods, but I had never mastered playing them well. Since learning to play p-m-p, I have gone back to the tutorials and practiced other methods they show. I wonder which method is best each time I play triplets, but I think in general whichever way someone can play them best probably is best for them, although there are certain advantages to one method or another depending on what the fingers and thumb were doing just before and what they will do afterward. Now that I am comfortable using any of the common methods I generally use whatever is indicated in music I am playing or whatever seems most natural to me at the time. Not only when playing triplets, but when playing anything generally, I try what whatever is indicated in the music first. If I find that awkward, I don't hesitate use whatever works best for me.

-Bob