How to Play Golpe | Flamenco Guitar

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Hi, I'm Dan Garcia. I'm going to show you a flamenco technique called golpe. Golpe means strike or hit. It can mean many things in Spanish, but in this case it's when we hit the guitar, usually in this area here, with our fingers to create some kind of an accent or percussion effect. I warn if you don't have a flamenco guitar or a guitar that has a plastic protection, don't do this technique because you'll make a hole in your guitar eventually. Believe me you will. So make sure you have protection before you do the golpe technique.
Golpe technique is basically, it's usually our annular finger hitting on the protection above the wood. Usually, to produce an accent that's in the music as a percussion or to emphasize a particular that we're playing. This technique is very peculiar, because you have to be ready to do a golpe just about any time. It comes with a lot of different other techniques and you have to learn how to do it at the same time as other things.
The best way to start though is just by doing it by itself. That's not too hard. Okay, so your thumb is leaning on the sixth string and this kind of curvy movement helps. Next step we're going to take, we're going to combine the golpe with our index playing upward. So golpe-index, golpe-index, golpe-index, golpe-index. This is a good way to get you acquainted with the golpe.
Another common rhythmic technique is doing golpe and index twice, but with this rhythm, kind of like a dotted sixteenth note rhythm. Next step is to do the golpe while we're playing our index down. This at first might feel like rubbing your belly and tapping your head. One of those things where you have to do two things at the same time, but with plenty of practice, it happens. So let's try it. We're going to go index down, and at the same time we strike the strings down, we hit the golpe.
Okay, once you've accomplished this, next step would be to have our index come up and down as we do the golpe. So golpe-index down and then index up. So golpe is a technique you need to practice slowly and in steps, okay? Don't try to do it all at the same time, just little by little and make sure you have protection.

[@7mechman]

didn't use protection. now i have 4 guitars.

[@DanneoYT]

Gotta pay guitar support aswell

[@emanuel6233]

4 unwanted ukeleles

[@singhjobim9719]

4 acoustics 2 ukes, fender telecaster, stratocaster, P bass, lap steel..never ends.

[@NemanjaGuitar]

haha, clever.

[@ThePandaGuitar]

Always make sure you have protection.

[@adrianaperezz3351]

ThePandaGuitar ha

[@bluespike1482]

2:25 "First time it feels like rubbing my belly and tapping the head." Ok so I'm not the only one, thank god.

[@Majed_ashraf]

😂😂😂

[@NemanjaGuitar]

Great. Love the energy and instruction.

[@themassacrecat5653]

your guitar lessons are the best

[@over01minds]

Can't find a size for my guitar !!

[@chroloph]

Excellent lesson

[@ecotts]

I just bought protection!

[@LORCAPELO]

The best I found... Thank you.

[@Felix-tf8ev]

Golpe is when you smack your guitar so hard it moans

[@darkcomet1607]

Wow

[@megadisc1982]

thanks for sharing .

[@terrythomas3755]

Thanks, Dan.

[@songwritingplanet]

Thanks Dan, nice lesson on the Golpe technique for Flemenco Guitar!

[@assilooomusic2648]

i have klassiek guitar is klassiek like flemenco guitar ?

[@darkcomet1607]

@@assilooomusic2648 yes

[@tccostello]

The golpe with the thumb stroke is what trips me up. Mine sounds bad and VERY loud.

[@MarcassCarcass]

I'm having to alternate up and down strokes with the golpe in between, quite slowly, before I even consider trying them at the same time. I can't believe how unnatural this feels, but from what I remember of other things, after a week or two of doing it everyday, it should get faster. Then, I might be able to try the golpe in conjunction with the strum.

[@DerekDeMuth]

...is a technique that you need to practice slowly and in steps, ok, make sure you have protection :D

[@twinpower46]

Thank you Dan, well explained, the only problem is doing the golpe while striking with my index finger... I tried different hand positions and angles. Could you give an advice for a person with shorter fingers? Seems you have much bigger hands than mine ... ;-)

[@umar8673]

twinpower46 Bro You can do it with you thumb, Just strum down all the strings with thumb and meanwhile Hit the guitar with your other fingers

[@karjur78]

thanks

[@ozlemoyy]

When index down i cant have golpe sound.golpe then index up is easier but why no sound the 2nd hitting.or is my ring finger's force going to high with practise?

[@johnnoe1648]

Thanks! Question: When the Golpe mark (the square) is above a note, do I strike before or after the note?

[@johnnoe1648]

Thanks, I will give it a whirl!

[@denizb.6882]

I WARN YOU!! - only on guitars with golpeador (protection) MEME knocks happily on the non-protected guitar

[@hyderhassan3604]

What chords do you use??

[@ahmedkbl.great.thanks9811]

👍👍

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Willie Nelson Has A BIG Whole In His C.F. Martin Nylon Guitar. His Horse Ate Into It . Trigger Was His Name.

[@enderdragon-qz9tl]

Golpe is when you try it the first time without a tap plate and your teachers gasp

[@SnOtwagon123]

Awesome person below me

[@zanderm7820]

I have a plastic pick guard... is that good protection or no?

[@ryannolder3383]

Should be good enough as long as it is not real thin plastic

[@amosegel2510]

When you say, you'll make a hole in your guitar ... do you mean that the wood will actually break, or do you just talk about ugly traces that do visual harm but not really break the guitar?

[@BabaBest2000]

Is that what happened to Willie Nelson's guitar?

[@johncassar2923]

what kind of guitar is that?

[@muzegravibus1899]

John Cassar it's a spanish guitar

[@TheIceBreaker90]

flamenco blanca

[@DuleTheMan]

''Make sure you have protection.'' yeah...

[@guitarguy17wb59]

Didn’t use protection, now I have 4 kids.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

I'm 60 and the nails on my hands have stopped growing ! I need nylon extensions . Hmmmm

[@94cez]

chit.....

[@kingsecho3351]

Only sailors use protection

[@thefurbyman]

lol

[@gazesalso645]

Rubbing your stomach and tapping your head is easy compared to this

[@kylerocks51]

What the fuck does that mean?

[@johnspolt]

I draw my profile pic myself, am I super cool?

[@kylerocks51]

What?

[@kylerocks51]

I'm in Australia. Now i see why. sorry.

[@kylerocks51]

Were are you from? because your sense of people knowing what you mean is horrible.