Folk, country and Spain

Flamenco on guitar: chords and rhythm.

Flamenco walks down the Andalusian cadence: A minor, G, F, E. The last chord, E major, sounds like a tense tonic, that of the Phrygian mode. Play it in rasgueados, flicking the fingers open one by one across the strings.

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The progression

Pick a key: the charts change right below. "Listen" plays the progression with its rhythm; a click on a chord plays it alone, the arrow opens its page.

Key

In A minor · 96 BPM
  • Am
    A minor×231
  • G
    G major213
  • F
    F major1342
  • E
    E major231

The rhythm

One bar of the strumming hand, beat by beat. While it plays, the stroke being played lights up.

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  • down, cut short
  • strum down
  • strum up

From the same world

The acoustic guitar, its open strings and alternating bass, then the Andalusian cadence of flamenco and Gypsy rumba.