Gypsy jazz guitar is one of the most exciting styles to play for Guitarist at any level. That characteristic "la pompe" rhythm coupled with beautiful melodic phrases often incorporating "gypsy" elements like the harmonic minor scale, Hungarian (or gypsy) minor scale, and copious ornaments (like quic...

The Gipsy Kings basically own the entire genre of rumba flamenca. There are other artists who have capitalized on the guitar rumba style like Ottmar Liebert, Jesse Cook, Strunz and Farah and many others. (We can trace the history of this style back to Paco de Lucia's Entre dos Aguas.) But no artist ...

The "rumba flamenca" style of guitar playing is so fun and there are so many songs out there to play. Not to mention a tremendous variety of ways to strum a rumba, as I talked about in my "Play Romanza as a Rumba" video lesson. In this arrangement, I've included a new variation on the rumba pattern ...

Here's one of the exercises I do just about every day for my classical guitar technique: Allegro by Mauro Giuliani. This is not the more well known Allegro by Giuliani but rather a seldom-heard piece that is made up entirely of the double arpeggio technique where we play all fingers of the right han...

There are so many fun and beautiful songs to play in the nylon string guitar universe: classical, Spanish classical, flamenco, bossa nova, tango, choro, etc. etc. the list of different styles goes on and on.

But the more songs you learn you start to notice similarities between them and you might ev...

Mastering the Gipsy Kings Rumba Style

The Gipsy Kings are synonymous with the vibrant, energetic rhythms of rumba, a style that has captivated audiences worldwide. In this lesson, we’ll break down the essential rumba rhythm used in countless Gipsy Kings songs and learn how to apply it to your own p...

Wow this video was a long time ago (11 years!) but here I am in 2022 still playing, teaching and loving the Spanish ballad Romanza. I continue to believe that this song - after new learners have got some of the fundamental techniques under their belt - has an entire universe of Spanish guitar goodne...

An essential jazz standard, Autumn Leaves is the quintessential jazz tune which runs through all the diatonic seventh chords in the key of G major/E (harmonic) minor using the "cycle of fourths" progression you can find in countless other songs. 

An essential jazz standard, Autumn Leaves is the ...