Sabicas (( Malaguena))

[@ivandubinsky1857]

Sabicas was the best pure flamenco guitarist, in my opinion. Now that he is gone, Paco Peño has done an incredible job of carrying on the tradition.

[@jgmagoo1]

I have heard hundreds, but to me this is the PUREST version of Malaguena I have ever heard. Everything about it....the smokey cafe, the women...everything is so perfect!

[@lucatanzini2921]

absolutely agree

[@Shredder-KJ]

Of course he is the best

[@oldsailor6408]

Did you hear the arrangement performed by Lions Boyd?

[@MAlsherif]

❤

[@BillyJupiter]

First thing i got to learn on a spanish. It being my first too. José Feliciano's black&white with the fancy but thurough 1-Hand segment first version to see done Live. Has to me too, been Infinitely Untouchable. Then this guy showed up.. *one of those schmuck-moments where you actually scratch your head and briefly doubt your sanity in full compliance.

[@Luvarby]

Never has a heavy hand. Each note is clean & clear.

[@bobbyferrellsr.3205]

In my lifetime I have heard all the great Flamenco artists including the famous Carlos Montoya, all the members of the Romaros family and all the current popular Flamenco guitarists. Sabicas will always be my favorite. In his lifetime there was none better. The smoothness of delivery and the technical ability was and will forever be the very best. He played with magnificently trained fingers and with his heart. His music and style has been copied by all the greats today.

[@kendrakrust1244]

@@dreia2405 Is Lil Wayne any good? Don't be asking stupid questions- we all Paco De Lucia is a noob and Lil Wayne, well he's a phenomenal virtuosic atrocity.

[@ladulf3474]

@@dreia2405 of course

[@dreia2405]

@@ladulf3474 tx I will destroy his records

[@ladulf3474]

@@dreia2405 sorry, my bad, just ediet my comment bro

[@ladulf3474]

@@dreia2405 paco is god of flamenco and best at playing like none other

[@JoseLuisHernandez-vt3gb]

España te amo 🇪🇸♥️ Desde Cuba 🇨🇺❤️

[@patriciogonzalez7691]

El más grande en el flamenco puro. Destreza y virtuosismo innato.

[@MariaDolores-d8x]

Dep sabicas y paco de lucia. Los mejores guitarristas del mundo!!!nos habeis dejado muy buen legado.

[@S_dott]

This is without a doubt the best malagueña. Technically. Musically. Such a graceful guitar player. Sad that these legends aren’t alive still but the clock never stops ticking.

[@Pablo_Cabeza]

Time only goes one way, but the coin has two sides. A genius even greater may just have been born.

[@Nyumbyum]

his balance of soft and hard tones and volumes is amazing. just too good to be properly explained.

[@sadrarahmani6246]

Dyl Wad “too good to be properly explained” can just show its awesomeness

[@fatimabenkacem6607]

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[@betterwaytraining4564]

In my opinion, one of the greatest flamenco guitarist's. With such spirit and passion exposed through the music, who can deny the true art this man provided.

[@joenania]

yes indeed - - HAIL , HAIL SABICAS FOREVERMORE !

[@channelsixtysix066]

Mesmerising. If you didn't see it, you'd hardly believe it what you were hearing. Even seeing his playing is so fluid it's beyond belief. I don't like comparing individual players, but Sabicas' technique is something else entirely.

[@squidproquo2241]

Paco DeLucia was probably the greatest guitar player ever and Sabicas was one of his mentors who encouraged him to go beyond the classical Flamenco style.

[@aashishsharma9106]

Sabicas is better than Paco imo

[@michaelsouthwell2289]

At that level it is purely an emotional judgement.

[@cmat45]

Sabicas is EASILY better than paco lol, I’ve seen Paco live before he died and believe me, sabicas made the guitar sound like something no one has heard before. There’s “playing the guitar” ya know toca la guitarra but Sabicas was one was the music . He had the song in him, plus the technical skill. Paco is a technician but you can’t place him with sabicas or Narciso yepes, specially if you know what theory and methods they introduced to guitarist as a whole. Learn classical guitar pedagogy first, then make assessments… if you don’t play, you can’t understand the music.

[@Dino69Zaur]

​@@cmat45Sabicas doesn't stay near Paco. Paco was excellent in any aspect be it speed, technique, clean sound of every note, or the genius idea of composed music, he actually diversified the flamenco made it much richer, and many genres you hear today like tarantas, minera, bulerias etc are exist because of him. Yes Sabicas deserves any credit as well because he was the beginning, but it doesn't matter how was the start more important what happens at the finish. We once had a wooden wheel, now we defined it and made it a modern tire

[@zoranprsendic5122]

Dobri jedan drugom ne smetaju, kada slušam bilo koga od velikih gitarista prepozna se lični ton,pa šta ti se više sviđa!

[@zulu26]

complete mastery. all class. greatest flamenco guitarist to ever live. yet he gets overshadowed by many others (cough paco cough). many have incredible talent and technique but no one will ever come close to the grace sabicas exuded when he touched a guitar.

[@efrainrodriguez2123]

I have heard Sabicas music for a long time and enjoy his music a lot. As well as Carlos Montoya’s.

[@RADOMIRATA]

By far far far most magical and perfect version of this song.

[@angelriguero8485]

Y remember this great guitar player....It was in the 1950's he had a great season in Habana,Cuba.

[@freshwater1552]

Oir a este maestro de maestros con esta interpretación, produce una sensación de espíritu difícil de describir.

[@mahdadzarafshan]

This guy is the God of guitar playing, absolutely, no one even close to him.

[@ladulf3474]

Eheeeem, eheeeem, paco de lucia

[@КсенияУсанова-с3я]

Paco Pena

[@efrainrodriguez9550]

Sabacas & Montoya are both closes to my love of Flamnco music.

[@hectorveloz9833]

MAESTRO DE MAESTROS , UN GRANDE , SABICAS!!!

[@1family4me]

Those harmonics are SICK!!!

[@xavsmash]

Ole Maestro Sabicas. Er mas gueno de tos.. Ese arte !!!

[@juanespinosa1259]

Filmed rarely for the spanish TV. Sabicas is the Jimi Hendrix and then some of the flamenco guitar. One could argue that Paco de Lucía was better at technique, but given the opposition that Sabicas was given (operating from the Bronx, New York) he was very captivating, to say the least. He filled up a Madison Square Garden. I could listen to his Malagueña 24 hours a day.

[@EricWebSurfer]

Juan Espinosa I disagree that P d L was better at technique. He looks like he’s straining to play when he plays fast and Sabicas looks totally effortless and plays a lot smoother. Just my opinion.

[@EricWebSurfer]

@@Unidentified_Jr_007 Perhaps you're right

[@jawaidmanzoor4396]

Sabicas was in the league of old masters. Poca was a generation lattar. Comparison with Hendrix is odd.

[@jawaidmanzoor4396]

Comparing drug laden Hendrix as for his audience to Sabicas would be an insult to the master.

[@roflswamp6]

Hendrix is trash compared to sabicas or paco

[@jawaidmanzoor4396]

Here comes the maestro where sentimentality and emotion is the essence of Malagunia coming from a traditional spanish guitar.

[@Viajealduende]

For those who don't know Paco followed Sabicas. Watch a documentary on Paco de Lucia and listen to what he has to say about his maestro Sabicas. Thanks to him, Paco branched out and formed a style of his own for a new generation, but not until later. Paco also discusses other great's who influenced him. Well worth watching a documentary on Paco. Nothing but respect for all those who came before him. Ground breakers since Paco,...hmmmm? Great players, but... innovators? We'll see... ?

[@cacilian4344]

Wow this comment is old, if you are still on youtube, what documentary would you recommend?

[@MariaDolores-d8x]

Eso lo sabemos todos los que nos.gusta el flamenco. Y sino que vean la búsqueda de paco de lucía (francisco Sánchez gomez), por cierto, yo he tenido la suerte de haber bailado algunas piezas de ambos.... sabicas lo consideró su discípulo, y paco de lucía lo admiraba por igual, el maestro . pensaba que era el mejor de todos, pero mejorando lo presente el mejor paco de lucía.

[@rodrigogarces2254]

Un verdadero maestro de la guitarra Española!

[@alanjahnke8712]

I've never, seen such a display of right hand techniques done to over perfection, It's a great video, It really humbles to those striving to become Flamenco Guitarists, and provides insight and inspiration to pass on the Flamenco Tradition,

[@moatazmee]

really...the maestro ,,,,,no one could play on guitar as he did

[@malaguenasalerosa1525]

Malaguena's music will remain the sad voice coming from the depths of tortured hearts, then it will continue to scream in order to declare its wounds over the years that it will continue to receive the pain of wounds and forever....🌍

[@qasimnasir9098]

THE BEST GUITARIST EVER. That's really awesome.

[@fernandomaynez4373]

Its berween him and paco de lucia

[@diggie9598]

Brian May: "Hold my beer" B.B. King: "Nah, hold mine" Jimmy Hendrix: "Hold my spliff" Eddie van Halen: "What?" Eric Clapton: "OK, let's have a session" Steve Vai: "I'm in" and so on.. There is no such thing as the best guitarist.

[@bonk4349]

@@diggie9598 i agree

[@aitorcastillo302]

Paco crushes them all!

[@ladulf3474]

@@aitorcastillo302 my man

[@Tomsmuse1]

True Flamenco by the great Master Sabicas. I love the story of him smashing his guitar onstage at Carnegie Hall when one of the male dancers came out stamping away during Sabicas' big solo. Anyone else have more details about that ? Such a legendary meltdown...from such a Maestro!

[@stanleyokimoto]

This brings tears to my eyes...and raises the hairs on my arms!

[@hamdanal-muhairbi5653]

Incredible this is old man devil's of the guitars no any mistakes at all

[@reyhernandez6605]

Oh my god, those harmonics at 1:30 are heavenly and so flawlessly executed... this man was clearly not of earth, so skilled it's insane

[@tenienteripley3522]

True!!! And in a classical guitar...that prove that Sabicas has electricity in his fingers hahah

[@Ale-xo9lx]

@@tenienteripley3522that’s a flamenco guitar though!! Truly amazing.

[@miamiami6676]

Que musica mas espaniola ❤️❤️🎼🥂 que viva españa 🇪🇸 nña que vive la musica de la guttara ❤️ los noches de verano de Málaga ❤️

[@ernestourra6253]

Por si no lo sabes: esta composición es de Ernesto Lecuona, compositor y pianista cubano. Saludos

[@RaulGonzalez-rs1be]

@@ernestourra6253 Ernesto Lecuona se inspiro de “Souvenirs d' Andalousie” una composición de Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Hay que ver si este compositor estadounidense se basó en la música popular española como referencia.

[@ntesslafan]

What an amazing talent! Thank you for posting this clip!

[@yol2kbl]

he and Montoya the best flamenco/classical ever

[@KirilG1]

Nothing to add, you said it all. It doesn't get any better.

[@heavenlyguitar5913]

What a fantastic touch and expertise on the guitar. Just amazing. 😊🦅🎸

[@user-sc5yo4bo2j]

He holds his guitar as if he held his woman's body ♥️ he knows it so well.

[@mimbster1972]

Love the comment and it's true.

[@peterpigna9505]

Uno dei migliori al mondo

[@ibrahimjan7362]

World number one Guitarist, salud maestro, may his soul rest in peace , bravooo

[@rufinosanchez2703]

Aquí se manifiesta la pureza, la fuerza y la precisión en la ejecución e interpretación de la guitarra flamenca. Muy bueno.

[@flamencoprof]

When I first heard Sabicas I was stunned into silence! I stopped playing my guitar for two years of just listening to Flamenco in general, trying to understand it. Pretty rad for a Led Zep fan!

[@josebenito224]

flamencoprof check out Jose Feliciano Malagueña.

[@mansteinman]

flamencoprof jimmy page likes flamenco guitar

[@juanespinosa1259]

One of the best flamenco guitar shows, ever. And god bless Paco de Lucía.

[@lucassalazar5375]

Si camarón hubiese nacido en su época y hubiesen estado juntos el flamenco se contaría desde otro barco. Nadie puede cambiar ni el momento ni las circunstancias

[@ihsxps5424]

Ole el tío Sabas, dando caña aquí a los 'expertos' mundiales

[@aufdz]

Sabicas es un fenomeno de la guitarra flamenca! il est au flamenco ce que Andres Segovia est a la guitare classique... deux geants de la guitare en somme! A.Fernandez

[@florianstollmayerswildwest8926]

Sabicas is my Favorite Flamenco Guitar Player and his version of Malaguena is the significant version of all-time! I play this Songs in various versions as well.

[@NytronX]

This is the first time I've listened to Sabicas, and I am hearing where other players like Chet and Ben Woods got their ideas from. There's specific parts that were lifted from Sabicas.

[@efrainrodriguez2123]

I enjoy his music to this very day in my life. Thank you You Tube fore the upload.

[@rocko1721]

El número 1 de la historia Sabicas grande!

[@jonlarkster]

a true master never stops perfecting his craft . here i believe sabicas is around 60 years old . if you go see his other video " malaguena with 2 encores " he`s probably well into his 70`s and plays a much improved version of malaguena.

[@xDMrGarrison]

+Jonathan Larkin Even the greatest masters suffer from again, unfortunately. I haven't seen the other videos, but I'm just saying, I've seen many great violinists' and pianists' skills deteriorate.

[@oe8670]

Perfect version of this song. He should be the best ever guitar player.

[@chudapatil]

i am in love with his fantastic guitar play He is a real maestro

[@carmenaguirrerequena]

Qué bella y nostálgica es la malagueña. Una gozada escuchar estos aires de mi tierra en tan prodigiosas manos. Gracias Juan por compartir, Saludos Carmen

[@oldermodel74]

At very least a grand master,more like one of the greatest flamenco players of his generation

[@cidcampeador1952]

ESTE TEMA ES DEL CUBANO-ESPAÑOL ERNESTO LECUONA , CADA VEZ QUE LO ESCUCHO SE SE SUBE LO ANDALUZ . VIVA CUBA-IBERICA .

[@joseancastellanos8917]

Ooooooooh q grandisimo Sabicas, sera imposible hacerlo mejor.

[@jayheinz4624]

This is fantastic..✨From what I recently researched on line,,, this song was originally composed on piano,,in a suite composed by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona,, in his suite Andalucía, in 1933.. Sabicas, sometime in the 1940s -50s?, adapted and arranged it in his own way, for the classical guitar.🐦

[@malaguenasalerosa5567]

The Malagina are the constant torments of the wounds since they occurred and will continue to resound in the world of music at the hands of flamenco players through time, and their tears will shed ceaselessly.🌍

[@pablocoria4095]

El verdadero autodidacta. Tuvo disciplina y constancia❤

[@SomeDudeOnline]

probably the best version of this I've heard on the guitar.

[@stewartritchey7602]

Elegant ! He does not play the guitar - he caresses it !

[@chelocheliniXD]

Toca con tanta naturalidad que lo hace ver fácil.

[@daviddaviddavid4627]

Olee!! que sentido me despierta en mi interior ,increible!

[@murestal]

El maestro Sabicas, catedrático de la guitarra flamenca.

[@birdtopaz5627]

ASTONISHING. JAW-DROPPING. PHENOMENAL.

[@cidcampeador1952]

MALAGUEÑA ; es un fracmento de la Obra SUIT ANDALUZA del Gran Maestro cubano ERNESTO LECUONA , considerado el mejor musico cubano de todos los tiempos . VIVA ESPAÑA , VIVA ANDALUCIA , VIVA IBERIA . VIVA CUBA REUNIFICADA CON ESPAñA Y OLEEEE .

[@Gitanoz]

I agree! No one else comes close to this version.

[@Anton_the_Vampire]

What I find interesting here is how soft and subtle some of Maestro Sabicas' techniques are. Totally different to the "rough" sound that you often here with flamenco guitar. I really enjoyed this video!

[@thistruckerslife]

Sabicas gave us Clarity and Montoya gave us Power.

[@leslielde6192]

Sabicas fut le maitre de paco cela se ressent beaucoup.paco savait jouer du sabicas mais ce dernier ne savait pas jouer du paco.2 grands genies et l eleve a depasse le maitre💕💕

[@viniciocarrasco2446]

Esto sí, que es música clásica.

[@Ledprostate]

Best version I've heard. Such power and feeling

[@seddiklamperoug7712]

best guitarist ever

[@blackhawkwxfan]

+Seddik lamperoug When it came to flamenco, Carlos Montoya was the best hands down.

[@martynharwood7919]

I agree Seddik, he has some undefinable extra something , that makes him the true maestro.

[@ladulf3474]

It's funny, as i see, you haven't heard about the mighty paco de lucia

[@JonahCorn]

Its an "artificial harmonic", it is done by holding your index finger directly over the fret (barely touching the string) and using your thumb to pluck the string. Artificial harmonics are used to make harmonics other than the common 5th, 7th and 12th fret harmonics. Whatever note you are holding, simply pluck the fret 6 whole steps from the point of origin. Hope this helps!

[@worldwildwest]

Never hear of him before but his performance gave me goosebumps.

[@cykoaudio777]

for those new to flamenco and used to think rock guitarists was the pinnacle..GO SEE PACO DE LUCIA next time in your area..he may not be around much longer,but if you pass it up,you will miss one of the great guitar performances you've ever seen...I've seen him twice in NYC and simply the best guitar performance,along w/cajon,horns,2cd guitar,singers and dancers,,total package

[@gabrielfernandez2776]

increible....parecen 3 guitarras juntas.....magnifico....sin palabras...

[@stevearogge]

You are magic with the guitar.

[@oquendomora]

Estoy de acuerdo y reconozco la maestría al tocar esta obra que fue escrita para piano y hacerlo genialmente a guitarra, solo lo comenté por no ver el Nombre Ernesto Lecuona en el video, este cubano dedicó obras muy bella para toda España y en especial para Andalucía. Saludos

[@carloscrespo3345]

Ciertamente cada uno tiene su mérito y el compositor de esta obra es muy grande

[@Luis674t]

Ernesto Lecuona fue un gran músico español nacido en La Habana (España) en 1895. Cuba no existió como país hasta 1898.

[@Neil_Jordan]

lo que mas me meravilla es que este hombre fue AUTODIDACTA :O

[@pabloperez4063]

Todos los genios de cualquier materia suelen ser autodidacta s

[@dylanreyes7823]

Que

[@rxmiz]

Yo ando intentandolo aprender guitarra autodidacta

[@josezapata9412]

Amigo los genios no aprenden , crean y enseñan. Saludos.

[@Neil_Jordan]

@@josezapata9412 saludos amiguito

[@ebs2648]

Muito bom! Música da alma!

[@joseancastellanos8917]

El mejor, el ùnico, eeel puto amo. Bravooo

[@resipsaloquitur13]

This is an exhibition of pure masterful technique. This isn't a work meant to showcase the complex. Instead, skill and precision.

[@samovarsoviet1377]

PA\RA QUEM NAO CONHECE ESTE E O FAMOSO SABICAS , GUITARRISTA ESPANHOL DE FAMA INTERNACIONAL QUE SE DEDICA A DIVULGAR AS MUSICAS FOLCLORICAS DE SEU PAIS, PRINCIPALMENTE O FLAMENCO'. ESCUTE ESTA MARAVILHA QUE SUA INTERPRETAÇÃO DE "MALAGUENA "

[@mboughan1]

If I ever happen to get into a duel on a dusty road in Mexico....I will be listening to this.

[@VCRider]

Ronald Reagan was so awesome at playing flamenco guitar !

[@moonmelder2965]

This guy is an FBI agent ... you have been tricked!

[@dmemswiler]

Masterful. Flawless. The thumb is in melody the index and middle fingers are just kickin' a_ _ ! Oh how I wish !

[@pedroespadapacheco4689]

Fabuloso, irrepetible.

[@joseruizelcoro8472]

Maravilloso! Gracias por el documento!

[@Supperconductor]

So so so well done, truly inspiring!

[@KlodeB92]

Simply amazing !!! Thanks for sharing and best regards .Claude

[@1family4me]

Oh wow, those harmonics are awesome!!!

[@elvergonzales5746]

Maestro de maestros

[@joseantoniosopena28]

Sublime! Gracias por subirlo, +100

[@mhdbek8842]

Grand master . i can't breath

[@flamencocompas0607]

le arte del maestro sabicas un saludo

[@ABBAOPAXO]

bravo, maestro, bravo!!!!!

[@miguelangelledohernandez6230]

Me sorprende cuánto saben ustedes, amigos anglos, de flamenco.