Soleá 1 – Treatise of Accompaniment to “El Cante” – David Leiva

Language: Spanish, English, and Japanese.

The new collection “Flamenco Guitar. Treatise of Accompaniment to El Cante” in DVD format with booklet, reveals the secrets of the great master accompanists of flamenco, offering unique and innovative material in flamenco pedagogy.

Aimed for new guitarists and professionals,  it offers the opportunity to analyze and interpret falsetas, remates, different accompaniment tricks, different rasgueos, and chords depending on the chosen guitarist and his era.

But this is not the greatest surprise, as if this was not enough, this production is outstanding because it also contains the vocals (a cappella, without guitar accompaniment) of the greatest flamenco masters available to us. A luxury for those guitarists who were not contemporaries of the great flamenco singers or those of us who have not had the opportunity to accompany them.

The masters included in this treatise are:

Cantaores (The flamenco singers): Naranjito de Triana, Antonio Mairena, Aurelio Sellés, Bernarda de Utrera y Enrique Morente. Guitarists: Niño Ricardo, Melchor de Marchena, Diego del Gastor, Sabicas, Manolo Sanlúcar, Paco de Lucía, Enrique del Melchor y Tomatito.

Each style is presented in six different ways:

• Vocals with guitar and percussion: the complete version. • Vocals with guitar • Vocals a cappella with flamenco percussion so as to practice the accompaniment. • Guitar solo with percussion, so as to sing along or listen to the different details in the guitar • Guitar solo, so as to sing along or listen to the different details in the guitar • Percussion, so as to sing along and accompaniment.

“Soleá volume 1” contents: