Rasgueado

Rasgueado is the name for various attack techniques of the Spanish flamenco guitar. The difficulty of this technique lies in the often long lasting, sparkling, rolling rhythm, which is generated by coordinated and time-shifted downward movement of several fingers. In other Rasgueadotechniken addition, the fingers are moved in opposite directions and used the thumb.

The downward strokes of the fingers coming out of the middle finger joint. Only proposes the little finger the strings from top to bottom. Only then - and not during the little finger is still on the way! - Starts the ring finger with the down beat. The remaining fingers follow this pattern. If the index finger begins with the shock, the little finger must be back in the starting position to begin shortly thereafter without gap again.

Often joins the downward stroke of the index finger directly upward stroke of the index finger on what begins again with the downward movement of the little finger of the cycle. The percussive effect is achieved by the fingers on the thumb " pinched " and then - with downward pressure " flipped " - to be released. This creates a continuous motion sequence, which is typical of this mounting technique.

Besides the cami - Rasgueado (which is rarely used by modern flamenco guitarist ), there are other variants, the most common is amii (second i surcharge ). Furthermore, the three - Rasgueado iai - Rasgueado, which is used for example for tango or Fandango (flamenco dancing ).

Another Rasgueadotechnik for a cierre ( "contract" ) is called abanico (from Spanish " subjects" ) and used the thumb and Mittel-/Ringfinger ( eg after a falseta, eg p -p -p -ma -ma p - p).