Happy Birthday Flamenco Style
I put up a song Happy Birthday quite a while ago and people love it.
It's an easy song to learn and very practical but at the very end of the video I do a little
partial Flamenco version of it and it has many comments that people like that and they
wanna learn how to play it so I decided to do it.
This video I'm gonna teach you Happy Birthday Flamenco Style.
Hey there.
I'm Tomas Michaud and you're watching my Real Guitar Lessons.
In this video, I'm gonna teach you Happy Birthday Flamenco Style.
Let me give you a demonstration.
Demonstration - Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday to anyone,
Happy Birthday To You.
A little ending there and not exactly Flamenco but let's start with the basic chords.
It's pretty simple.
It's three chords, four or few couple changes in the middle.
G chord, I'm using my pinky.
It's actually easy for me to get from this chord to the next two chords with this form
but you can do any form that you're comfortable with.
I teach three forms of the G and even a very simple form it still work so make the form
of the G you're comfortable with and it's gonna go Happy Birthday To You and then D,
Happy Birthday To back to G, Happy Birthday to C whoever you are and I changed to C7 that
added color to it, I do both.
I start with C and then go to C7 -- Happy Birthday one hit to the D and back to G so
one time together.
Happy Birthday To You that's the D, Happy Birthday back to G, Happy Birthday, Happy
Birthday that's the C now on C7 and back to G now on D and G. Good!
You can rewind the video if you need to go over there a few times.
We're gonna go on to the strum.
So this is a Flamenco Rumba Strum that's one name for it and it sounds like this.
It's a strum made famous by Gipsy Kings and Ottmar Liebert and other Flamencoish guitarist
like that.
This strum is one of the easiest to get it first and I do a whole another video and break
it down to a tiny little pieces so I'm not gonna go to that detail in this video.
I'll show you the basic strum, break it down but if you need more help find my video on
the Flamenco Rumba Strum so here we go.
Let me do it slow first (strumming).
I'm using my fingers.
The outside of my fingers on the nail and the inside nail of my thumb.
It's down, up, down and then when I go up, I used my thumb and open my hand and mute,
that's the motion.
I'm slightly twisting my wrist and moving my arms slightly.
It's not a big motion.
I have to keep my hand right in this spot so it's down, up, down, up -- 1, 2 that's
1 and 2 and -- the end of 2, that's half of the strum -- down, up, down, up, down, up,
down, up.
Now the real trick is to practice this one and if this is new to you, you probably wanna
do that separately -- down, up, down, up.
When you get that first half of the strum, it's a (4:50) from that point forward.
The second half is, let me do the first half first -- down, up, down, up then you go up
brush with inside of your fingers up and then one more down, up and then you start over,
brush, down, up.
There is a pause there that accounts for half a beat so it's down, up, down, up -- pause
- up, down, up.
You see that mean the second half is easy compared to the first half brush up, down
and then up that's only three half a beat.
The first half is actually a pause so its pause, up, down, up.
I hope that make sense.
Let's do the whole strum now.
Ready, go.
Down, up, down, up, pause, up, down, up.
I'll do it again.
Down, up, down, up, pause, up, down, up and again down, up, down, up, pause, up, down,
up and one more time down, up, down, up, pause, up, down, up and now a little faster and now
a little faster.
Okay, if this is brand new to you, you probably wanna look out for my video where I break
it down and practice that strum separately.
Let's put it all together.
So now the strum and the chords together, nice and slow Happy Birthday To You, Happy
Birthday To You, Happy Birthday to anyone, this is C7 Happy Birthday To You.
I only have time for that, a one up on the D there.
One more time, Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To Anyone
-- C7 - Happy Birthday To You that's it for this video.
Thanks for joining me.
By the way, if you'd like to get a sheet with some tips and the chord changes to this, go
ahead down below.
I have a link to that, it's on my blog post and you can download it there, absolutely
no charge of course.
And if you'd like some more help with this Rumba Flamenco Style, I do have a free course
that you can sign up for also.
Thanks for joining me.
I look forward to seeing you in the next video.