Bulerías

Flamenco Guitar Method Volume 2: Lesson 8

The Bulerías belong to the most popular toques, especially for the young guitarists, because compás security and virtuosity can be shown to their best advantage. Experience shows that if you fully understand the compás of the Bulerías and its variations, you will find the rhythms of the other estilos, played according to the 12beat compás, easier. Even though some guitarists play them very gently or

”academically," the Bulería is and will always be the Flamenco style which is played very powerfully, especially by the gitanos. Not only in toque, but also in cante and baile. Whereas solos are mostly played in “La-dórico,“ you will find all kinds of modes in the acompañamiento. To a good tocaor that means he should also be able to play the Bulerías in the major and minor modes, as well as por arriba (Mi-dórico). Often, other estilos are sung in the compás of the Bulerías. In this case they are called ...