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Palmas: Cómo Hacer Palmas Sin Romper Nada

A beginner's guide to the most important percussion in flamenco

Hand clapping is not optional in flamenco — it is the rhythm. Two types, three roles, and an unwritten rule about when to keep your mouth shut. The one skill every flamenco beginner gets wrong before getting right.

#palmas #baile

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Seguiriyas: Cuando el Flamenco Llora

The deepest of the deep

Seguiriyas is the bottom of the well. It is what flamenco sounds like when it has nothing left to perform with — when there is only grief, and someone to sing it.

#gitano #jondo #12-beat #cante #jerez

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Soleá: La Madre del Cante

The mother of all flamenco singing

If flamenco has a foundational palo, it is the soleá — slow, dignified, twelve beats counted from one, and the structural template from which alegrías, bulerías and the cantiñas family all eventually grew.

#gitano #jondo #12-beat #sevilla #baile #cante

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Bulerías: El Corazón de Jerez

The fastest, freest palo in flamenco

Twelve beats, accents on three, six, eight, ten and twelve — bulerías is the rhythm flamenco gatherings always end with, and the one that demands the most from every participant.

#gitano #jerez #12-beat #baile

By Lola Vega

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