| Flamenco is a popular style of Spanish Guitar | | | | golpeador is needed. Also, besides strumming, the |
| Music. Flamenco has its own three forms which | | | | guitar still has many different styles of being |
| are Cante, Baile, and Guitarra. Cante is the song, | | | | played. For example, in flamenco, the musicians |
| Baile is the dance, and Guitarra is the guitar part | | | | often use their hands and fingers and tap the |
| of flamenco. Flamenco is a very important part of | | | | body of their guitar to create sounds to blend in |
| Spanish Guitar Music. It usually consists of | | | | with the flamenco music. The hand and finger |
| someone playing the guitar, while people are | | | | taps serve as another reason why a golpeador is |
| dancing, and other people also join in with hand | | | | needed. |
| clapping. Although it is mostly popular in Spain, | | | | History and Origin of Flamenco Flamenco |
| flamenco was influenced by other cultures as well. | | | | appeared for the first time in literature in the mid |
| Flamenco Guitar The Flamenco Guitar is very | | | | 1770s. During the Golden Age of Spain, flamenco |
| similar to the classical guitar. That is no surprise | | | | started to get more and more popular. Flamenco |
| however, because flamenco music and classical | | | | started becoming common in the country's music |
| music are very similar. Both of the instruments | | | | cafes. Also, around that time, the number of |
| are descendants from the lute. The normal | | | | music cafes in Spain began to increase. As time |
| flamenco guitar is made out of the Spanish | | | | progressed, flamenco began to get more and |
| woods cypress and spruce. Even though this | | | | more serious. Other forms of flamenco started to |
| guitar is similar to a normal classical guitar, it is also | | | | generate, and many of them got deeper in |
| different. For example, the flamenco guitar weighs | | | | meaning. During the early 1900s, flamenco singing |
| less and is smaller than a normal classical guitar. | | | | started to get attention. Soon, full flamenco |
| These features attribute to giving the flamenco | | | | dances were taking place with the guitar, the |
| guitar the sharp flamenco sound. Nearly all | | | | singing, and the dancing. After 1915, many people |
| flamenco guitars come with a golpeador. | | | | started to have shows for flamenco, and |
| For example, there are several ways to strum | | | | musicians would play in front of a crowd at a |
| the guitar for flamenco. Strumming is an easy | | | | theatre or another public place. |
| way to scratch the body of the guitar, so a | | | | |