Essential Flamenco Guitar: Volume 1 Paperback – January 10, 2014

Excellent. Better than a private lesson. Best way is just to put the guitar down and watch the video. First disc is 2 hours and covers technique. 2nd disc covers music. Get comfortable, watch the video over and over again. Nothing about it is tedious, no detailed explanations on technique, just the basics. Then when it's time to get to work go to the book and pretend you have an assignment for next week and work on a section. I started with a lot of music and guitar knowledge but a complete beginner on Flamenco. Takes a while to just count. Once you get the counting down the rest seems to start to fall into place.Juan is a fabulous teacher and obviously loves the music and shares that love above the technique.Although reading standard notation isn't necessary, it only takes about 20 minutes to learn and is helpful in explaining the theory behind the music but tabs are included or you could just do it by ear. .

I have been practicing flamenco guitar for almost two years on my own which had led me to pick up lots of bad habits. In the first 1/2 hr alone of the DVD I was able to correct many of those. His teaching style is very easy to follow. As long as you really put some time in you will take a lot from this. I wish I had purchased this a long time ago.

Book is easy to follow, but I imagine it may be a little more difficult for those with zero guitar experience. As another interviewer said, watch the DVD before digging into the lessons, as some technique lessons are buried between the song lesson chapters. Thankfully, the DVD and instructor are fun and engaging, so you won't be bored. Looking forward to finishing this and trying Vol 2.

Very well explained it makes easy to understand the wonderful music of flamenco.

Excellent Book for Learning Flamenco. Juan explains things very well and the book follows his (included) DVDs well. He is low key, polite, and gives you multiple angles of view (of his guitar and fingers) on the DVDs so you can really understand what's going on. Really like this book.

It's really a good book for who love Flamenco music. It's also useful for all the beginner.

Great instructional book

This volume is very good with regard to Flamenco guitar instruction. However, the book was clearly not in new condition as described. I will keep it anyway, but not happy about it and therefore only four stars. Otherwise it would be five stars.

Bom livro, muito didático e intuitivo. Recomendo.

Absolument nécessaire à la pratique de la musique flamenco.....il y a plus de 3 gigas de vidéos à télécharger sur le site de l'éditeur qui sont aussi importantes à la pratique certaines leçons on plusieures vidéos dédiées..... ne parlant pas espagnol ce livre en anglais est parfait !!!!!

Easy to understand, the DVD is great especially for beginners. Gets you playing right away!

Ich besitze nun 4 Lehrwerke von Juan Martin!Mit diesem sollte man beginnen.Sowohl didaktisch (auch wenn man vielleicht schon bisserl weiter ist) als auch vom Spaßfaktor her! (Den er selbst betont, wie z.B. in der Passage wo er zuerst ein bisserl singt (oder versucht zu singen), und dann sagt, " this is why I had to become a guitarplayer"... 😉Schon alleine der Tipp, wie man seine Fingernägel verstärkt ("China-Silk") ist den Kauf des Buches wert.🤑Als Flamenco-Liebhaber ein Muss!💃Als Gitarrist von anderen Stilrichtungen, auch ein Muss, weil die ausgeklügelte Technik weiterhilft, und man nochmals zusätzliche andere Übungsinhalte bekommt...ah ja,...üben muss man schon noch, aber da wären wir dann wieder beim Spaßfaktor... 🤩Klare Kaufempfehlung!👍

I had self-learned prior to following this book so wasn't a total beginner. The DVD video looks a little dated now but the content in the video and the book is fantastic. It's very easy to follow along, pausing where needed to practice. The segments are a favourable duration and not too long being focussed on one of two things a time. The structure of the video content is sometimes a little odd and inconsistent. The book is in tabs as well as sheet so anyone can pick this up and get going quickly. I would definitely recommend this to anyone wanting to learn Flamenco coming from any level of skill with a guitar.