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Flamenco Guitar
maestro classes
Available in both DVD and book format, the Flamenco Guitar
Maestro Classes are created in close collaboration with the
world’s best gypsy flamenco guitar maestros, the true treasure
keepers of flamenco music
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Volume 1: Soleá por Bulería & Bulería
Volume 2: Seguiriya & Alegría
Gypsy roots from Triana
by Paco Fernández
In the series of ‘Flamenco Guitar Maestro Classes’,
renowned maestros reveal the secrets behind their
playing. Starting from the basics of flamenco guitar
technique, they use step by step exercises based on
their own CD compositions. Following these clear
lessons will enable you to reach the final level of the
Flamenco Guitar Maestro Classes which will allow you to
play along with the Maestros’ stage performance of the
same compositions.
DVD
The ‘Flamenco Maestro Classes’ DVDs include a number of aids that help you
to enjoy learning, including:
- Multicamera views showing simultaneously both the left and right hand
performances of all compositions at a slow pace.
- Authentic transcriptions, approved by the maestro, in both standard music
notation and tablature.
- On screen letras and rhythm compás guide to original cd tracks.
- Revealing interviews with the maestro, his friends and family.
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Francisco Fernandez Vargas, “Paco Fernandez”, was born in 1967 in Triana, in
the heart of one of the most prestigious families in the world of flamenco.
The legacy of his father, Curro Fernandez, and his mother, Pepa Vargas,
marked Paco and his brothers, Jose and Esperanza, in the most pure Gypsy
style.
With this background, not surprisingly, he began his artistic journey at a
very early age. At the age of eight he starts to play the guitar and received
his first lessons from the master Rafael Amador, a component of the group
“Pata Negra”. Later he continues his apprenticeship with the master of the
guitar Miguel Perez. At the age of twelve he officially debuted alongside
his siblings Esperanza and Jose Fernandez in the Alvarez Quintero Theater
in Seville, forming the “Gypsy Gang.” The following year his parents, Pepa
Fernandez Curro Vargas, alongside with the major representative Jose
Antonio Pulpón, had a great idea to form one of the most recognized
flamenco families from the national level, “La Familia Fernandez”. With this
formation they happily spent eight years in the best festivals in Spain and
represented numerous performances and tours in America, Europe, Japan,
India and represented Spain at the popular “World Meeting of Gypsy’s.”
Paco Fernandez has performed with leading figures such as Camarón de
la Isla, Antonio Núñez “Chocolate”, Farruco, Rocio Jurado, Fosforito, Juanito
Villar, Potito, Duquende, Diego Carrasco, Antonio Canales, Remedios Amaya,
La Susi, Juanita Reina, Aurora Vargas and many more.
Music from the CD ‘Sastipén Talí’
In these DVD & book series, the maestro and composer ‘Paco Fernández’
invites us, not only to study his techniques and exercises, but also to
acquire the complete compositions of his latest CD Sastipén Talí, a
fascinating balanced blend between traditional and modern flamenco.
Sastipén Talí enables us all to discover flamenco in its purest form...going
through on a journey of through different musical styles such as Indian,
African, Andalusian rhythms and the unmistakable flamenco sound of
Paco Fernández.
Volume 1
“MOMA LEBRIJA” - Bulerías: Dedicated to his mother Pepa Vargas and is based on a bulerías
passing through cutting-edge sounds without losing the aire (feeling) of Lebrija
“GANDHI“ - Solea por bulerías: Remembering his meeting with Indira Gandhi in 1984 through
the ethnic sounds of India, reaching the most pure of the Flamenco soleá and the intervention of a
flamenco dance.
Volume 2
“SASTIPEN TALI” -Alegrías: A dream in which the author from his Gypsy culture is identified with
the African people, which is reflected in the performance of musicians of this land as Simao Felix.
“FRAGUA DE MI PARE CURRO” - Seguiriya: Tribute to the purity in the singing of his Curro
Fernandez.
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La Sonanta is a professional organization built upon
aficionados and musicians sharing el arte y la pasión del
toque de la guitarra flamenca
offering a wide range of products and services to inspire
your musical talents
CONTACT
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La Sonanta Productions
Beukenhofstraat 11
3960 Bree Belgium
Tel.: +32 (0) 498 1620 42
Fax: +32 (0) 89 24 55 22
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