How to Play the Flamenco Guitar : Right Hand Exercises for Flamenco Guitar

Learn some easy right hand exercises to improve your flamenco guitar skills in this free guitar video.

Expert: Mario Amaya
Contact: MarioAmaya.com
Bio: Mario Amaya left school after completing the seventh grade. Mario started playing the flamenco guitar when he was fourteen years old.
Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• guitar
• flamenco
• flamencoguitar
• flamencomusic
• guitarlessons

[BaronHarder]

scary vampirehands

[TheLostMedici]

I'm not a flamenco guitar player but your videos clearly present some other techniques that I can integrate into my playing.

[hotguybmx760]

why are you nervous dude? you're awesome.

[aaaaltje39]

you don't have any muscles in your fingers you stupid lol

[ColdAsIce3211]

Is it just me or is he a little stiff?

[santisjmm]

You all don´t know anything about flamenco, playing flamecto is a complete other technik than any other guitar, thats why this guy does things no one would do playing any other kind of music. Learnig to play flamenco is just like learning to play guitar from the begining.

[Juandesanlucar]

@ Squirmychipmunk9 ¡TIENES TODA LA RAZÓN!

[BOGZASV8MA]

good excercise

[litreacola]

the words are stupid.. i wanna see what you're doing

[chris5a3w]

why on earth have you got the words concealing what you are doing?

[makometeor]

As a guitarist for 6 years only just getting into flamenco and classical playing, I have a question though it's probably just an aesthetic one; do you have to keep the nails on your picking hand long or can you get the same technique and abilities with just the actual tip of your fingers? I realise this may sound silly, but it's just an odd peeve of mine to have long fingernails.

[squirmychipmunk9]

Your catclaw style seems to make your hand very tense. In my experience tenseness of the hand can be quite inhibitory. You gain a much more fluent motion by keeping your wrist and hand as relaxed as possible, this also reduces the risk of injury. I think it is very good advice to keep a bridge to your wrist and play with your fingers almost straight down - but I would add to keep your fingertips so relaxed that they bend on contact with the strings, use only the top muscles of the finger.