I wonder how many people watch this and don't realize that you have basically unlocked every secret to authentic flamenco harmonic tonality? Brilliant.

we are needing more people like you on KZfaq no advertising, no shit, no editing, just pure knowledge

Man I've learned more about flamenco guitar theory in this video than I've learned in seventeen years living in Andalucía where I came to learn it. Excellent lesson and very well explained. I will get a lot of mileage out of this video. Gracias.

The thing I love about flamenco is the tension, i.e., the dominant. You can’t resolve it, it’s always there keeping you in suspense. It’s the ocean. Thank you, excellent presentation sir.

Beautiful technique as well. I could listen for hours. "Take a walk on the wild side." Love it

14:14 was when my mind was blown!! The unexplained D# now completely makes sense, supporting a supposed tonic E. Impressive!

Being the kind of guy that likes to know what I'm doing, I really appreciate this in depth instruction.

This man speaks with so much respect for his craft. I love his teaching.

The tone on that guitar is absolutely incredible! I was living in the LA area in the '70s and I walked into a music store near Sunset Boulevard and there was a younger guy sitting on a bar stool playing the most incredible guitar music I had ever heard in my life. Flamenco of course! It was my introduction to that style of music. That individual's name was Gino D Auri. If memory serves me correctly, he studied five years at the Rome Conservatory of Music. Went to see him play on stage at the Matador in West LA and I was hooked on Flamenco music. And the dancing of course. Wanted to learn Flamenco more than anything, but due to a pretty serious injury was not able to complete that goal. Thank you for the information. Am also a huge fan of Paco de Lucia. So sad that he is no longer with us.

the best laid out explanation of the Andalusian Cadence I've heard yet. thank you very much. Fantastic!!

Adam, you are a natural teacher. I play a totally different style of guitar, but I don't think I've come across anybody in any style, on you tube, explain anything so clearly.

I was playing the E phrygian with G# this morning and realized I was in A harmonic minor. So cool. Now I've got the D# to add to the mix. Great video

Sir You're an outstanding teacher. Great lesson. Most excellent video.

I have suffered hours and hours of guitar teachers who were explaining obscure things using terms I had no clue about (phrygian, dorian,etc.) so I never understood anything but you have the intelligence to show on the guitar while you play and know how to illustrate ( phrygian is scale without flats or sharps ... I never heard that !...). I will have to replay your video multiple times minute by minute to digest all this material but for the first time, it seems accessible with patience ! You are a great teacher !

Thanks Adam. Very clear and well explained adding the G# and D# - and good laugh "9 note scale so you get your moneys worth."

I've always felt that much of flamenco's melodic tendencies are more naturally explained by maqam theory rather than the western notions of scale + its derived functional harmony. When I hear flamenco phrases, I clearly hear the movement between the core ajnas of Hijaz, Kurd, Nahawand, Hijazkar, and Ajam or Rast (with all the normal microtones adjusted up or down to the 12 equal tempered frets of the guitar). In the maqam rather than scale concept, we can visit all these melodic zones without issue and so we get something more melodically complex than a fixed 7 note scale. So I see the 9 note scale you discuss as simply a kind of maqam kurd that often briefly modulates to Hijaz or Hijazkar for cadential purposes. Still, a great video to explore the complexities of the music with respect to Western theory. And that guitar sounds fantastic.

Incredible player, incredible teacher, incredible lesson.

Thank you so much! I've been looking for something like this for years. Finally, somebody manages to explain what happens harmonically in Flamenco by using references to classical music theory, which I actually understand.

E major asks a question, and Am is the answer. This has just blown my mind!!! Great Vid.

Wow! Great lesson. "opens many windows" my favourite quote!

I already knew of the nine notes but being raised under the Western music regime your explanation built the bridge to what I would call the E Flamenco scale and now I know much better how and why this scale works. Lucky Spaniards who grow up with this and don’t need all those rationalizations!

Still thinking as the V chord of relative Harmonic Minor , (starting in CMajor, relative minor is Am, sharp the G to create a major dominant V chord resolution to Am, becomes harmonic minor which opens up more chordal possibilities using both a natural G and G#...Those chromatic notes G,G#, A are very useful. Continue by adding a flat five Bflat to the E mode and what once was E phrygian, then became dominant phrygian, is now a full Altered scale-E,F,G,G#,A#,C,D. But the omitted notes are all very useful as well (A, and Bnatural) . This opens up many possibilites for chromaticism as well as implying whole tone riffs with G#,A#,C,D,E (Paco did this a lot). If you do it enough, you start to hear how all 12 chromatic notes work within the context of each chord.(F#,C#,D# are all good chromatic approach notes but also imply subdominant chord relationships relative to many chords such as Dmajor, C# diminished, Bmajor-oh so many more... Eventually, you can stop thinking of scales altogether. But learn them first. Thanks for the video Adam!

Andaluzia chords has that warm in the melody that is unique...its like the weather there.

I'm just in awe. Trying to rap my head around all this theory. It has had me struggling for ever. I keep practicing but I've realized that with out a proper teacher to critique my learned ability. I'll probably just fall short. Thanks you for your video tutorials. I really appreciate the wisdom.

Excellent explication of theory and beautiful demonstrations of guitar playing! I've taken a lot of lessons and theory classes since I was 13 in '69, and this has got to be in the top five. The way you make it all accessible, even bringing in jazz and classical theory and making Them accessible, is wonderful! Also wonderful is the casual crispness of your falsetas and rasgado, and then the gentle sweetness of the resolution to the C chord around 7:00. So tender!

Grande, Adam!!! Porque explicas la música con pasión y porque no te importa ser altruista. ¡¡Y qué bien suena todo lo que tocas!!

Wow I was becoming obsessed with secondary dominates and harmonic minor scales and wondering how it all fit together. Thank you I always loved Andalusian Cadence. You explained everything so wonderfully, now it's opened up a whole new Era for me and my playing. New subscriber

Boom! I love this! I had a flamenco teacher in the late 60's who learned in Spain (he's long gone now, RIP), but he never taught me this. I'm trying to re-learn flamenco, as I had not really learned that much before, and have been playing classical. But I bought a flamenco guitar in 2005 (Alhambra 7Fc), so I've been wanting to learn to play flamenco again (had been playing mostly classical). Thanks for this very instructional video! This makes so much sense! I wish I had been taught this years ago. "Bullfights and blood everywhere" made me laugh!

I've been learning Flamenco for a few months, and have been wondering why the tonic is major, even though I appear to be playing in phrygian. This is the only explanation I've seen that makes any sense, so thanks for clearing up the mystery!

Uhh... I'm only 5 minutes into this upload so far and already know that I've come across an extremely use resource here. THANK YOU ADAM!!!!!!!!

I’ve no idea what you just said, but I saw Manitas de Plata in about 1968 at the Odeon in Birmingham England … my first concert. I can still recall the power & excitement of his opening strum. Thanks for prompting the memories.

This was a wonderful lesson in what makes flamenco special, it is not just harmonic minor, nor just phrygian, it is the leading tone of the D# to the E that I was missing when playing and hearing it. Great job!

You rock! I am a filmmaker and a teach film. I am impressed the way you teach. I was looking for a long time for a good flamenco teacher and now I found you. This class was fantastically explained! Thanks!!! Millón de gracias!!!

you're one of those guys when you speak I am instantly fascinated and on board God bless you

Fascinating. Phrygian dominant is one of my favorite scales, I don't play Flamenco but I really think I could incorporate this into my playing. You just got a new subscriber because your teaching is Fabuloso.

I learned to play music badly by ear. I don't really understand modes and music theory but I love listening to years of experience from a master. So much here for me to learn. Thanks 👍

Four minutes and thirty seconds and I already had to stop. I love your style. I WISH there were more instructors like you. This video will take a LONG time for me to absorb. I enjoy playing just scales and learning about just what I got from your video in the short time I watched it. Everything is based on scales. It's how scales materialized that fascinates me the most. Again, I appreciate your video.

I discovered this scale on my own a few months ago, while playing around with the harmonic minor scale. I couldn't quite understand the music theory behind it. It just felt close to the mediterranean/middle eastern microtonal sounds I was trying to imitate. Seeing this video, now I understand the theory behind it as well. Thank you so much!

I have my Gitarra by my side and am about to start "Fooling around" because you have inspired patience and understanding, Thankyou.

Hands/nails washed and can confirm that this is the best explanation that is out there! Thank you so much for this video!

Thanks !!! I'm a flamenco student and it's the first time that somebody explain flamenco scale like that ! Waouh !

This was outstanding. Understandable, and approachable, yet technical. I picked up my guitar fairly quickly after the beginning. Got it right way and then started working on chords and harmonies. I think a guitar veginner should probably diagram the scale so they can learn it's firm, but once more advanced they will HEAR it. I could always hear it but would find it accidentally. And if anyone thinks this isn't rock or blues, I present you Hotel California. You may have heard of it. Very goid video. Thank you, sir.

Dear Adam I’m studying classical guitar and your explanation have extension to the guitar it self Some of the exercises you show us I’m doing it every morning an particularly some of them is totally incorporated to my study Thank you for your generosity and sharing

This video is pure gold. Thank you maestro, you are big inspiration! Greetings from Macedonia.

Just to echo many others, bravo!! You have confirmed beautifully everything I had soaked up over my 50+ years of guitar playing and composing. Coalescence of so much and so well accomplished in your quite short video, bravo indeed and many thanks.

Great video and very well taught. I grew up with Flamenco being half Spanish and play Guitar but always found Flamenco a little difficult but this lesson has opened it up for me! Thanks so much.

Besides the notes, I noticed the importance and motion of your right hand. Something for me to work on. I love it. Thank you!

Truly enjoyed this fabulous lesson. I hung on every word . What a great teacher and so talented. Not to mention that handsome head of hair. Have always loved flamenco guitar. Thank you for sharing this beautiful performance of such great music. ❤

One of the best explanations of anything I've ever seen.

So complex for my small mind but I was able to keep up. Terrific explaining!!

I see your Paco poster in the background. A friend of mine turned me on to Al Di Meola back in the early nineties. When I listened to Friday Night In San Francisco, talk about being blown away by de Lucia. I instantly went out and bought everything I could get my hands on. He is an absolute monster of a guitarist.

So articulate, such knowledge and great skill....a total joy to behold!

Oud player from Morocco. I recognize the patterns of old Andalusian music as it is still played today in Morocco.

I agree, this is a wonderfully helpful video which should be shown to every beginner...in my case 20 years later, but now I understand all those cryptic comments about why E-Phrygian is not the actual scale, just the basis... I never saw it fully explained before :)

Wonderful guidance from a very good teacher. So natural and fun in his explanations and he is not a show-off though I’m sure he could be.

You are an excellent teacher. I actually understand everything your teaching, thank you 😊

brilliant, clear, informative, and he did it in one take si señor, excelente Paul C. Piña, (classical guitarist)

This tutorial is like eventually finding the last dusty brick to a huge puzzle and it might even wipe the dust of my flamenco guitar:)

Best teacher I ever had the privilege of viewing.

That was the most valuable Flamenco guitar theory lesson I've ever watched. I feel lucky stumbling across this video...

this video is exactly what i needed to bridge what ive been learning in music theory as well as on my guitar. thank you.

Now you are my favorite flamenco guitar teacher on KZfaq, thanks for sharing this materials ✌️🙏

I started flamenco guitar ... last week (also strum some oud and sitar which led me to flamenco), knew about the phrygian scale but also found that 2 other notes would "also be at their place" in that scale. Now, thanks to you I know why ... (G flat and D flat) ! Phil. (Belgium)

I'm listening to this in Seville. We're going to see a flamenco performance tonight. Thanks for giving me such a wonderful insight into this music.

Now that cleared the fog regarding flamenco for me. Fancy discovering a 9 note scale along the way. Brilliantly articulated.

This is the best guitar tutorial I ever found on the internet. Great!

I learned some critical things about composing and harmony that are fundamental to everything I am dong not only Falemco theory. Thank you so very much.

Fascinating beauty - the strength of fusion.

Thanks. That is a wonderful lesson. I have been thinking of it as the Byzantine scale and then add the flattened 7th and 3rd to include the phrygian. I became aware that the notes of the Byzantine scale are all accounted for if you play a major 7th arpeggio and then a second major 7th arpeggio from the 2b. Discovering these two arpeggios opened up new ways of moving around in it for me (though probably not traditional), and then some phrygian 'licks' need adding of course. I just discovered your channel after a topical search. I'll be back. You are definitely a man that knows his oranges - whoops, I mean onions.

Respected sir , this video blew off. I request you to make more educational videos. A very humble request from a 16 year old Indian.

Thank you so much for all the knowledge you share waiting for your more lessons You're an amazing guitarist and musician we met 25 years ago in Spain on Levpace Street playing with Lola Montoya

Here I learned something valuable about another genre of music. Greetings from Persia.

Many thanks for the masterclass. Pure gold from beginning to end.

Beautiful phrasing and grace while sharing a great flow in theory fundamentals and function. Much gratitude !

So interesting to learn about the culture and history rather than just musical techniques and harmony

You are an amazing teacher. I can tell your are the best of the both worlds, classical guitar theory and Flamenco guitar theory.

excellent instructional and theoretical video on musical theory and practice. Well demonstrated by an accomplished musician/ guitar virtuoso and brilliant teacher. Thanks for the musical knowledge much appreciated.

brilliant explanation!!! It finally makes flamenco understandable in a musical sense. The fact that the E is normally a dominant but behaves as a tonic really makes all the magic happen! and explains everything. Muchas gracias, hombre!!!

I love your playing , i just bought a Classical guitar I’m gonna study from your videos every day

What a fantastic lesson and breakdown of the scale concepts in flamenco! Extremely helpful!

absolutely wonderful i have been following you over a decade now from new learning vision days

best guitar lesson in years, thanks sir !

Now, I'm not a flamenco player, and am infact fairly new to teaching myself guitar. But I greatly appreciate you blowing my mind with this video. I accidentally "discovered" the Andalusian cadence and loved it... this will give me a deeper dive to messing around in that area 😁. Thanks again!

This video was amazing, and clarified what I've been doing and explained what I've heard. I always referred to it as a modified Phrygian scale, and now I know what it really is and why it works. Thank you.

I’m here from your guitar salon video of Flamenco Tremolo… I am practicing everyday because it sounds so beautiful

I had been wondering for ages what the flamenco scale was. Thank you.

What incredible informative content... and a very good flamenco player and tutor! Greetings from the Netherlands.

its the version of A(harm)minor (except for melodic minor) but with the root set to E7. nice complete explanation! thanks

This is so great, I'm just a bass player but I have a great love for Flamenco and this explains sooo much. Thank you

Cool stuff and a well presented video. The main mode is Phrygian dominant or also known as mixolydian b9b13. Another cool scale you hear in Django and Paco de lucias playing is - Hungarian minor. Which could also be seen as Harmonic minor but with a #4 or #11.

Thank you so much much for sharing your wisdom and great understandings of a music form I love but do not play or harmonically understand in such a conscious way.......I am a harmonica player of 48 years (was full-time pro by age 20) and play Blues, Jazz (had a swing dance band 10 years), R&B and have been in straight up Bluegrass and Country bands too. FL, San Diego, LA, Austin, PNW . Have performed with guitar players in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and many others who have been on songs people may know.....and just in general ones I have met on stages or studio sessions. I listen to videos by drummers, bass, sax, organ, guitar players, there is something to be gained by what each bring to the musical realms and I often do not understand technically what/why they are doing, it does happen that some elements can be absorbed by osmosis and work it's way into your own play, especially when it come to groove. Thank you again for sharing your music, this was the first video of yours I have seen so now I can go see if you have some posted of performing too.

Thank You! You couldn't have simplified it any better! I'm on it!

The video is very knowledgable and you break things down clearly and professionally. It's well explained and presented. Thank you. It's much appreciated.

finally i am starting to hear what i am hearing. thank you Adam.

Brilliant presentation. As a jazz pianist and teacher I appreciate the clear way you break this down. Looking forward to the next vid on harmonic applications.

Brilliant.... If only i had this teacher or his method of undstng flamanco scale i would b a star by now Love from Malaysia

Really got a lot out of this lesson. I'm a dancer not a guitarist but it cleared up a lot of questions I've had over the years about the flamenco scale - muchas gracias and OLE'!

Guitar as long as it’s a beautifully captivating sound can be played with a few or as many notes as it takes to accomplish this. Your sound is great. “Have fun, play around with it” Great advice, thanks 🙏🏻

17:50 That's Amazing . It's magical . I like It !

5th mode of Dbl Harmonic minor mixed with 5th mode of Harmonic minor. But add the b3rd as well, which is never actually off sounding in a major scale (though the natural 3rd is definitely off sounding in a minor scale). Love it! Good explanation.