A super useful Chord Progression Falseta for Tangos Por Medio. It’s pretty essential to have one or two of these for each Palo, and I write about why I like them so much, and ways you can make them your own, in this blog post - https://flamencoexplained.com/education/is-a-chord-progression-a-fals...

A super useful Chord Progression Falseta for Bulerias Por Medio. It’s pretty essential to have one or two of these for each Palo, and I write about why I like them so much, and ways you can make them your own, in this blog post - https://flamencoexplained.com/education/is-a-chord-progression-a-fa...

A super useful Chord Progression Falseta for Alegrias in the key of E Major. It’s pretty essential to have one or two of these for each Palo, and I write about why I like them so much, and ways you can make them your own, in this blog post - https://flamencoexplained.com/education/is-a-chord-prog...

A super useful Chord Progression Falseta for Solea Por Bulerias. It’s pretty essential to have one or two of these for each Palo, and I write about why I like them so much, and ways you can make them your own, in this blog post - https://flamencoexplained.com/education/is-a-chord-progression-a-fa...

An Intermediate-level falseta for the Bulerias de Cadiz (the Bulerias at the end of an Alegrias). If you’re going to be accompanying danced Alegrias, this is a good one to have in your back pocket in case you get a chance to play a falseta during the Bulerias.

An intermediate-level Guajiras falseta by the great Sabicas, this one has one little twist - an “extra” 6-beat scale at the beginning, that we look at a few ways to deal with.

Here's and advanced Seguirillas falseta hat works nicely for dance. It's starts out pretty straight, but then gets very syncopated in the middle and ends with a groovy compás variation.

Played slow and looped - An advanced Tangos Falseta by Enrique Melchor that features a bit each of Arpeggio, Picado and Alzapua.

An intermediate level Fandangos de Huelva falseta that features a bit of syncopation and a few little bursts of arpeggio. Works great as an intro, or you can use it anywhere in your Fandangos de Huelva.

A classic intermediate/advanced Fandangos de Huelva falseta by Pepe Habichuela. It features a lot of scales, but since the scales are phrased in triplets and not in 16th notes it’s not quite as technically challenging as it could be and actually quite playable.

This Sabicas Soleá falseta will not only work both hands but will also really work the coordination between the two hands. Plus it’s one of the all-time great Soleá falsetas that works at any tempo. Traditional definitely doesn’t always mean easy!

This classic Soleá falseta by the great Ramon Montoya starts out quite elegantly and then ends with a bang. It’s also a fantastic left-hand workout, and it has a little quirk, in that it has an “extra” six beats (don’t worry, we explain why and also how to remedy the situation if needed).

Tangos can be played in many keys, and after Por Medio, the most common other key is Por Arriba (E Phrygian), the key that Tangos de Granada is often played in. Here’s a fun falseta that can be played as written, but also has a lot of moving parts that you can use as shorter falsetas or simply to...

This intermediate/advanced Colombianas falseta follows a more or less traditional chord progression you’ll want to be familiar with when playing Colombianas. You can use our Tangos compás loops to practice this one: https://learn.flamencoexplained.com/compas-loops/season:5

Here’s an advanced Guajiras falseta that works at both faster and slower tempos and involves quite a few little scale bursts for you to work on. Could also work as a somewhat rubato intro at a slower speed.

A fun falseta that can also be used a tag for something else, this one starts just before beat 12 and features quite a bit of thumb technique as well as some precise left-hand movement.

A line cliche is when one note within a chord moves by half-steps. The second half of this falseta features a line cliche on the D minor chord where the bass note moves down from the note D on the fifth string. This is a traditional figure that you’ll probably recognize more once you learn to pla...

Here’s a fun fasleta that’s relatively straightforward and will add variety to your Escobilla por Alegrias. The right hand is all P-M-A and the melody is mostly scale wise motion, using an E Major scale in the 6th position. It’s almost all triplets, so once you have the right hand down it’s all a...

I say this one is good Por Fiesta because it’s all thumb so you can play it loud and, once learned, should be playable at quick speeds. Watch out for those pickup notes at the beginning, though, as it starts just after beat 10.

This Tangos falseta features a very common alzapua burst and quite a bit of left-hand / right-hand coordination to make it sound its best. Also, watch out for the rhythm change from 16th to 8th notes.

This Seguirilla falseta works best at faster speeds, making it useful for Escobillas or any other time you need a fast-tempo falseta. You’ll want to watch out for the compás, and also for the left hand, which needs to leave space for adjacent open strings to ring. As always, simple doesn’t mean e...

Played slow and looped: a short but tricky Alegrias falseta that will really work both your left hand and your compás. In addition to some 16th note slurs that include a lot of pinky action, the phrases don’t quite resolve where we would expect them to. Once you’ve learned the notes, make sure yo...

We had to include at least on Paco de Lucia falseta in the course, and this one seems to have been one of Paco’s favorites, given how often he played it. There’s a lot going on, both rhythmically and technically, so take this one slow and make sure you understand where each phrase starts and stop...

This 2-compás passage seems to confuse just about everyone at first, so we break it down in a way that should be easy to follow. Take it slowly and pay attention to the details and you can be one of the ones who gets it right!