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Flamenco Guitar Transcriptions
Ramón Montoya por bulería
20 December 2020

Ramón Montoya, in 1931 with Manuel Vallejo (first sung line: "Por los balcones del cielo") at the end of the recording. The guitar is in the relative key of A major (A/E7) with the capo at the sixth fret. The double bars between beats 12 and 1 separate the compases.

The score starts on beat 7. The falseta consists almost entirely of bass-string slurs in combinations of triplets and eighth notes, so keep an eye on the time values in the standard notation. The thumb is used throughout ("q" indicates an upstroke) and taps are heard at beat 12 during the pauses.

At the beginning of the second staff, the fifth-string slur is held briefly at the fourth fret before being released. In the third staff, damp the fifth string after the slur at beat 5 and "aim" for the open fourth string on beats 6 and 8.

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Ramón Montoya por bulería
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