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Flamenco guitar is an art that it is hard to master. But is it possible to play a flamenco guitar melody that is easy to learn for a beginner. Come and see!

Flamenco is a song, music and dance style which has its roots in Moorish and Jewish musical traditions.

Flamenco culture has become one of the icons of Spanish music and even Spanish culture in general.

The flamenco guitar comes from the lute and is made of Spanish cypress and spruce and is smaller than a classical guitar with a sharper sound.

Malaguena is a flamenco style with its roots in the local fandango of Malaga.

You will not need to read sheet music to play this flamenco guitar piece. We will instead use guitar tablature. You will only use four strings on the guitar.

The string with the highest pitch is called the first string or E-string. Look at the following guitar tab with four strings indicated:

1. -------------------------

2. ---------0-----------0---

3. -----1-----------1-------

4. -2-----------2-----------

This is a tablature staff and the number 2 on the fourth string indicate that you play the fourth string while pressing down the second fret.

The next note is played on the first fret on the third string. The zero indicate that you play the note without pressing down any fret.

Play the melody with your thumb and with your first finger resting on the first string for later use.

Here is the next guitar tablature part:

1. -------------------------

2. -----1---0---------------

3. -2-----------2---0-------

4. ---------------------3---

After the last note on the third fret on the fourth string you just start over again with the first guitar tab staff.

Now it is time to introduce your first finger on your right hand into the melody. After every note you play with your thumb you just have to pluck the first string with your first finger. In guitar tab it looks like this:

1. -----0-------0------

2. -----------------0--

3. ---------1----------

4. -2------------------

And so on for the rest of the melody!

I hope you will find this very simplified flamenco guitar tab melody enjoyable. I guess many people will recognize the melody when they hear you play it.

Flamenco guitar playing is of course an art that is hard to master but this little flamenco piece doesn't sound so bad. Does it!

Peter Edvinsson is a musician, composer and music teacher. Visit his site Capotasto Music and download your free guitar sheet music and guitar tablature at http://www.capotastomusic.com

Tuning your guitar is probably the most basic, but most important thing you should do before playing your guitar. Making sure your guitar is in tune is something that you should do as soon as you pick it up. This is all part of the process when you are learning how to play the guitar. The first thing you need to do when tuning your guitar is get a reference pitch. This is a process that takes time to learn, but gets easier with practice. One of the most reliable ways of tuning your guitar is by tuning each string to the one below it.

The goal of tuning is to put your strings in tune with each other. Remember to tune up by increasing the string tension. If you tune too far give the string a lot of slack and start the process again. Match the pitch of each string as closely as you can. Once you have that first note you proceed in an orderly manner tuning one string after another. Once you have tuned all six strings, go back and check them again.

As a beginner you may find that tuning is very difficult and very frustrating. You can tune your guitar with an electronic tuner, which is pretty straight forward, and will save you time initially. Just make sure that when you are more confident to tune your guitar yourself, you try to move on to relative tuning methods, otherwise you will not develop a musical ear. Do not neglect learning the skill of tuning for yourself, as it is great for developing your ear. New guitarists tend to break a lot strings by tuning too far.

No matter how well you're playing, you just can't sound good if your guitar isn't tuned properly. What is the point of playing a great piece of music if it is completely out of tune? To keep your guitar strings alive for as long as possible, wipe your strings with a cloth after playing and keep your hands clean. Factors such as regular playing, accidental movement of the tuning keys, and weather or atmospheric conditions can all cause a guitar to go from being perfectly tuned to being out of tune. Even if the guitar isn't severely out of tune, it's good practice to tune it anyway, and no amount of good playing can make an out of tune guitar sound good.

Tuning your guitar is important and necessary when you are learning how to play the guitar

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