I was messing around today frustrated that my hands are painful and won't work right for some of the falsetas I am trying to get down, so I decided to try and remember some of the simple stuff I used to play back in the 70's. I learned this one from music notation from a book a friend sent me from Spain about 1971. Never heard it played so I had to depend on music timing and accuracy of such to play it. I got the idea for rhythm and general sound from listening to old LP's of more complicated fandangos. I haven't listened or studied fandangos in recent years, so I will not guarantee the accuracy of my playing. Cejilla on 2nd fret on La Pedro.
Fandango Verdiales.mp3

Thank you Sam. Well done and a very nice sounding guitar, congrats!

Sam,

Your verdiales is very nice. You inspired me to try one of my own; I constructed it in a similar way, but played it more slowly. Since I don't have a score, I made up the melody

What do think, Foro, did it work?

Flamencoblues

Flamencoblues wrote:You inspired me to try one of my own; I constructed it in a similar way, but played it more slowly. Since I don't have a score, I made up the melody

What do think, Foro, did it work?

Yes, it sounds Great!

-Bob

Very nice and I enjoyed the speed and flow of it. Nice traditional sounding melodies. The guitar also has a very nice sound.

Thank you, Gentlemen! In my opinion, a very beautiful folkloric version of Verdiales is the one by "Traina" on youtube:
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Flamencoblues