6.Rumba Strumming - Ben Woods Flamenco Guitar Techniques

[@mpress469]

"When one teaches, two learn". - Robert Heinlein

[@Flamenco4U]

Deep...and true! 😉

[@wandersjesse]

flamenco guitar is incredibly fun and borderline addicting once you get used to it. im still barely okay but man ill tell ya. its some of the most fun I've had in years.

[@harackmw]

I just wanted to say thank you. I have been dabbling in flamenco trying to pick up what I can on youtube, but your lessons here are by far the best and clearest. Cheers !

[@guitarcoyote]

Thank you Ben from the bottom of my ❤ you helped my playing.

[@seanhallahan14]

Ben, These lessons are invaluable, fun, inspiring gifts! Thank you very much.

[@christocr]

Ha, love it: "At the rumba speed... sometimes they go quite fast" (understatement). Ben proceeds to order, "Warp seven, Number One... Engage."

[@madzster2008]

lmao

[@georgescannelli3814]

Ben - just seeing this video based on my recent interest in Flemenco guitar. It was great. Your instructions/ demo for rumba rhythm was very easy and clear to follow. It will take practice for me, but thank you!

[@franciscordon9230]

Thanks, Ben, always amazing videos. I REALLY appreciate these, they are super helpful!!!

[@marclittle]

I just wanted to say thank you. I have been dabbling in flamenco as well!

[@tonisalic6300]

Yea...it's four years later, but I gotta say your lesson is clear and easy to follow. Playing guitar and singing for years and now I discovered flamenco. I'm obsessed with its incredible technics and obviously..sound. It's the Great Labowskis fault. Thanks for the lessons brother.

[@BenjaminWoods]

Thanks Toni, sounds like your on a good path!

[@Tracks777]

Brilliant work! Keep it up!

[@MohamedFelfel902]

Thank you coach, I have been drilling this 1/2 an hour a day. My chuck sounds like a full-on Charles, but I'm working on it.

[@aquascapehobby6154]

You Are My Inspiration Dear Ben Sir I watched Your Malaguena More than 1000 times

[@BenjaminWoods]

Wow! Thank you!

[@gordonturke4171]

Thanks Ben, I need to learn this, thanks for showing us.

[@kahfre3694]

Gonna learn me some rumba strums, and get me some ladies. 😂

[@nateratchet9091]

That's why we're all here bro

[@tka6781]

Learning this to play the Gerudo Valley song honestly.

[@itzsospicy2687]

I learned it, now its very easy

[@josesolismusic]

Muchs gracias. De verdad que he aprendido mucho con sus videos.

[@Rashkeqamar]

Amazing player u r!! perfect than many of them!!must have learnt it right at the first place....keep it up!! we want more flamenco lessons:)

[@mountainstartemple6041]

2:03 ... "I lost track ... going this slow makes it a little difficult" ~ odd I have the opposite problem LOL .... so many right hand techniques (if you're right handed) are like patting your head and rubbing your belly but x10 times worse haha

[@fretlessblunder]

Gold. Thank you.

[@ericksonjacobnavarro7052]

best flamengco. guitarist. you’re. great because you create. a new flavor. of music. FLAMETAL. flamengco and metal. more power. everyday i listen to your. stuf. more power. 🤘🤘🤘👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@scottmichaelcrowe]

On the first beat how do you do a downstroke with your thumb and golpe in the same move?

[@BenjaminWoods]

In a grasping motion, the thumb strums across the strings, while the fingers go into the soundboard to make contact.

[@scottmichaelcrowe]

Thanks Ben I'm gonna practice that

[@Jordan-ot7qf]

Going up-down-up entirely with the index finger after beat three- instead of using the thumb on the last upstroke- sounds much better. I just changed my rumba strum. Thanks for the insight

[@markbrady7532]

I really appreciate this, thank so much.

[@Seryoga28zp]

Очень хороший музыкант и преподаватель. Спасибо бро.

[@antigoti]

Man your videos have helped me so much brother. Thanks and keep them coming!

[@coastalphriends4913]

Love! Love! Loved this! Thank you!

[@musicbeats2792]

You are a Very good player . Super technique.!

[@sandyndu3126]

thank you Ben

[@rogerthat1100]

You are the Best!

[@shadow_of_darkness5666]

Thanks Ben

[@nateratchet9091]

Thanks for the lesson and youtube tip

[@tonny9126]

Teacher Ben woods your the best 🥰🎶👍🏻

[@theking0fstrings907]

This is awesome! Thank you! Gotta lot of work ahead of me haha

[@hikaruikedagt]

that's what i wanted to learn!

[@BenjaminWoods]

I'm happy it helped

[@alexd.alessandro5419]

Thanks for sharing. Could you please show some STRUMMING patterns ( not rasgeuos ) through different compas .... tangos, bulerias etc...

[@KeyMondYTGaming]

Thank you ben. It is not fast for me thank god, but ive been doing it wrong i guess(?) for the last 10 years-ish. Trying to change the way i played it stumped me for a full 4 hours! Huh.

[@CarlJohnson-ff6yb]

Flamenco is so awesme i wish i was born in spanish so i learnt this technique

[@BenjaminWoods]

It IS totally awesome! I'm not Spanish, I was born in Seattle. Anyone can learn!

[@amartyab4u21]

Apparently not so easy to learn as an Indian 😔 I wanna learn it so badly and there are no flamenco teachers around here

[@KnightAlmighty]

Thanks a lot! Cool lesson

[@P14-n7q]

Magnifique très bien expliquer. Merci.

[@DamianYamamoto]

How are you making the chuck sound? How do I stop the strings from ringing

[@faustocarvalho9124]

Gostei da aula

[@abhijitbanik3861]

these r just awsme.for last few months I have been watching you sir.I am from India.getting a flemenco guitar here is difficult. I have a classical one.is it ok to practice on it....thank you.

[@padrao4099]

Flamenco and Spanish classical guitar are same bro

[@puya987]

Thank you very much. Could you please put a lesson about how to play tremolo? Thanks again

[@Tonesix]

Very good lesson ☺😍😍

[@hamidhasan2369]

Lovely

[@Carminielloz]

3:59 alien move ?

[@hiblahblah45]

thanks for the lesson.

[@OUTDOORSWITHDOMINGO]

Gracias por la info !!

[@alanneale2565]

fantastic thank you is this your Ortega signature model

[@larosadeiventi2392]

Ortega flamenco negra Signature Ben Woods

[@ShubhamChavan94]

2:20 faster is lit

[@begad350begadamer7]

Thank you you brother

[@gingone2]

Thankyou!

[@BenjaminWoods]

My pleasure, I hope it helps

[@totochannel5999]

Nice bro

[@dangusmomangus3003]

Thank ya! Now ee ken play da gitur

[@alvaro9169]

Thanks a lot Ben, really good videos, congratulations! I am spanish so I am suppose to play as Paco (just joking, I wil lose some thumbs up for that). Right no it's 10 o'clock in Spain so we are not yet in siesta time :). It may be useful to add something about "rumba catalana"/ventilador (I have not found any video in english but it should be) It is widely used in chorus for example, when people free their souls and start clapping and singing... Jerónimo de Carmen / Pituquete are the ones that I have learnt from (I grew up in Santander, at the north, where flamenco is like a souvenir from Andalucia, so I have to learn by videos like yours, so thanks again)

[@Flamenco4U]

What you say is true Álvaro. I've found that flamenco is somewhat of a "souvenir" to natives of Andalucía--surprisingly!...Just as I'm sure there are people in Louisiana who are oblivious to blues music and blues artists. Glad to see that you are on the hunt for good flamenco!

[@BR5409.]

Right...so I need you to make a full tutorial of just the agulpe' alone Haha. My fingers want to scratch instead of strike while my thumb strums.

[@BenjaminWoods]

Here ya go kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWOcY4CbjM-bndE

[@BR5409.]

@@BenjaminWoods oh , nice. Thank you very much.

[@magusstudios333]

What is that at 2:25-2:26? That beautiful hand technique, how do you do that?

[@knnynn]

Rasqeado

[@Cowboy88021]

What strings do you use. Brand & tension?

[@dmitrymolin8880]

Man, u rule!

[@wingnutbreakfast5054]

I can't tell on the gulpa are you hitting it with your thumb or your finger ?

[@begad350begadamer7]

Your Awesome!!!!!

[@nezumi1856]

Thanks for the great lesson. Btw can I don't use the golpe?

[@BenjaminWoods]

I use it, but it's fine if you dont want to.

[@nezumi1856]

thank you very much, I can do this rumba strumming now 👍👍

[@sudhirparmar8035]

Thank u sir

[@108MCruz]

great stuff man, i would love some advanced flamenco techniques as well

[@BenjaminWoods]

Past the most recent 8 videos in this playlist there are a few more that show a few more advanced techniques. kzbin.info/aero/PLZoV7gLOjtDUpwdKtCHR3zT-ePqCJlrok

[@108MCruz]

Ben Woods ok great thank you

[@danvanleeuwen7712]

So I've been practicing this one for a little bit and my strumming just sort of sounds noisy and unpleasant to me. I'm not sure what it is. I don't feel that I've got it down yet so maybe I just need practice but also I'm using an ordinary guitar and not a classical so could that be it? It sounds less loud at speed also but I can see here you play it slowly and it still sounds nice. Anybody got a tip for me?

[@BenjaminWoods]

Hmm it's tough to know whats going on. But yeah a nylon string guitar is recommended. And I recommend you go back and watch this lesson more carefully and always practice slowly with a metronome. It takes time but it will strengthen and then you can slowly start going faster, keeping the machine-gun timing. Good luck my friend.

[@danvanleeuwen7712]

@@BenjaminWoods Thanks. I'll give slowing it down some more a try and maybe pick up a nylon string guitar at some point soon. This series of videos is part of my regular routine right now and I definitely do feel the accuracy and timing showing up in the rest of my playing so thanks a lot.

[@santanudutta262]

u are awesome....

[@nihatsit]

Videolarınıza türkçe altyazı ekler misiniz?

[@r1revs300]

Great series of tutorials. Could you elaborate on which strings to contact in each of the eight strokes?

[@BenjaminWoods]

Go for all the strings on moves 1-5, slap(6) then treble strings only(G,B,E) for moves 6,7, 8

[@MilanMondaloptimistic]

I wanna learn flamenco......i have Yamaha C40........

[@fdyjt]

this is so frustrating for me hahaha after i go with my middelfinger down i use thumb to go down but its going up instead

[@BenjaminWoods]

Stick with it, you'll get it!

[@Leee1000]

hello Ben , nice videos but can i ask you , how long did it take to be perfect in all these techs and did you practice all of them together or each one alone ? thank u Ben very much and keep going

[@uranusplanet1226]

23 years, start practicing bitch 😂

[@patrickciacco1083]

Good question!.... I often wonder how long it took Ben to learn all those techniques too, and long it took Ben to become a proficient concert guitarist.

[@rassimkr9441]

🤘

[@ironwood9thfls211]

can you make tutorial aguas donde vas plis🙏

[@AndyLeece]

I want to buy a nice flamenco guitar can anyone point me a some good brands. The guitar he is playing looks great anyone know what it is?

[@dominic6634]

kipting look at redgate guitars, Cordoba and yahmaha. See what sound you like and how they feel. I use a Cordoba gk nylon.

[@madantumbapo]

why can't I move my fingers fast?is there any good idea?

[@TheGoombaslayer]

madan tumbapo it's muscle memory, start out slow, practice everyday and the speed will come, theres no way around it.

[@LocalRagamuffin]

What was the first accent described at 0:56 in? I didn't catch what that was.

[@BenjaminWoods]

Golpe(tap soundboard with ring finger) and simultainiously strike all strings. This is the first move and falls on beat 1.

[@uranusplanet1226]

yes please learn me 😂 0:19

[@LYTHMOHSEN]

We need training about chords ( play speed and change the chords ) PLZ 🙏🏻

[@waffel9101]

I can't do the first part of the Technique, its so hard. Any advice?

[@dahlendo7513]

Waffel Practice... only you can teach yourself

[@Flamenco4U]

Hey Waffel! Just remember that the hand slaps on 3. Pretend that it's your snare drum while you count out 1-2-3-4, and just keep the right hand moving down up down up down up. Hope that helps!🎸

[@mountainstartemple6041]

It's funny how when you can do it fast, going slow is difficult LOL ... it's like the centipede stopping and really thinking about how he controls all those legs

[@BenjaminWoods]

You're probably right. Try the speed function in KZbin-gear icon lets you slow down 75%, and 50% without changing pitch.

[@mountainstartemple6041]

@@BenjaminWoods thanks ... yes I recently discovered that and was watching an old Sabicas vid at slow speed to see his right hand fingers LOL

[@themixmusicandmore6280]

Another guy teaches this except the last one is a thumb up which impossible for me.I'll use your way

[@BenjaminWoods]

I only show what I do, not all the ways out there. Although of course I think my ways are best hehehehe

[@777gitarist]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@LeandroLoan]

The first movement is very hard

[@gonzalosaizgonzalo9117]

1:18

[@blazzer56]

Half of the video completed Still on first step

[@Flamenco4U]

Good job!

[@clashwithx3037]

why is the comment section so.damn. Empty😈😈😈😈😈 great thin goin on here

[@DrowningTimeOfficially]

what is golpe?

[@gustavomarques4097]

Mateus Mendonça Golpe is hitting the body of the Guitar, mostly of the time below the chords but this can be done on the top two. The way is done is play a beat down with the thumb and hit the body of the guitar with your middle finger nail at the same time.

[@nocoochleft]

Me Wow he can sing Him 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

[@graceraisedmeup8036]

Isaiah 40:1 [1]तुम्हारा परमेश्वर यह कहता है, मेरी प्रजा को शान्ति दो, शान्ति! Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

[@26yago59]

Stop learning from me Ben.

[@domingodia5690]

¿"Strumming" en el flamenco? 😨

[@griffinlee695]

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