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Ask HN: How do you learn Spanish guitar?

20 points mazzystar | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 05:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.241s | source

I've recently become interested in Spanish guitar, particularly the Gypsy and flamenco styles, but I don't know how to get started. Are there any beginner textbooks or videos available? I previously bought a book that started with scale exercises, which I found very tedious, and ended up giving up. Thank you very much.
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leet_thow ◴[24 Jun 25 15:51 UTC] No.44367524[source]▶
Check out Melbay's catalog of books: https://www.melbay.com/Products/CategoryCenter/F36/Guitar%20...

A lot of the books come with digital downloads of PDFs of the sheet music / tabs along with the author performing the pieces on MP3s.

Get set up with a footstool, and position yourself in front of a computer screen with the PDFs open to practice.

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1. mingus88 ◴[28 Jun 25 00:53 UTC] No.44401570[source]▶
I don’t think doing this on your own will be effective. I would only recommend these Mel bay books if you have a teacher to work with you on it

And even then these Mel Bay style beginners books are probably good for 6mo at most before you should be playing actual music

Flamenco in particular is something else. How you grow your nails, how you use your wrist, all this stuff is something you don’t want to spend hours at home doing only to realize you built a bad habit that will never sound right or even worse lead to RSI