Rumba Flamenco Strum Guitar Lesson In The Style Of Ottmar Liebert
Hey there, I�m Tomas Michaud. In this lesson, I wanna show you a fun, rumba lick and actually
were gonna practice the rumba strum and then play it to a simple lick made famous by Ottmar
Liebert that�s in the style of Barcelona Nights, one of his signature tunes so stay
tune, were gonna have a good time.
Hey there, welcome back. So to start off, lets do the basic rumba strum. Now Ive taught
this in a more detailed in another lesson so I�ll give a brief overview of it here.
If you need more help, go ahead and check out my rumba strum lesson. So it looks like
this (strumming) faster it sounds like (strumming) so lets take a look.
The first half is down, up, down and then I�m using the string at the same time I�m
brushing across my thumb � that�s the first two beats, 1 and 2 - brushing the tips
of my fingers on the outside of the nail and then up on the thumbnail down and then I raise
my thumb up at the same time mute the string � down, up, down so now the second half.
I brush across the inside of my fingers and then down, up, down, up, down, brush up and
then start over - down, up, down, brush up, down, up. There�s a pause in between there
so its 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and if we missed that part, it wont come out even - 1 and 2
and 3, the pause and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
Okay so let�s practice it with two chords, the A minor chord � down, up, down, up,
pause, up, down and then the G chord (strumming) a little faster twice on A minor, twice on
G, again A minor and G, A minor.
Now the basic melody which is the theme and you can use either your finger or pick for
this so its (strumming) now, a little faster its (strumming faster), that�s the whole
lick. Now let�s go ahead and put that together. I�ll go ahead and start the video, you�ll
see me play both the melody and the chords together so you can play along, either one
the chords or melody.
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