Rasgueado (also called Rajeo or Rasgeo in Flamenco) is a guitar finger strumming technique originated from, and commonly associated with flamenco guitar music. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles A strum is the act of brushing one's fingers over or strumming, the strings of a String instrument such as a Guitar. Flamenco is a Spanish term that refers both to a musical genre known for its intricate rapid passages and a dance genre characterized by its audible footwork The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles It is also used in classical and other fingerstyle guitar picking techniques. Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the Guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips fingernails or picks attached to fingers as opposed to The rasgueado is executed using the fingers of the strumming hand in rhythmically precise, and often rapid, strumming patterns. A strum is the act of brushing one's fingers over or strumming, the strings of a String instrument such as a Guitar. A strum is the act of brushing one's fingers over or strumming, the strings of a String instrument such as a Guitar.
Flamenco guitarist Paco De Lucia is an example of a player with very advanced rasgueado technique. Paco de Lucía, born Francisco Sánchez Gómez (in Algeciras, Cádiz on December 21, 1947) is a Spanish composer and guitarist
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History
Before the 19th century, the terms battuto and golpeado were commonly used to describe the same technique. Although originating in the classical tradition, the technique is most often associated with Flamenco guitar. A flamenco guitar is a type of Classical guitar, built for the purpose of playing Flamenco music Andrés Segovia tried to remove the use of rasgueado from the classical school, considering it to have been developed "in the noisy hands of the gypsies". Andrés Torres Segovia 1st Marquess of Salobreña ( 21 February 1893 &ndash 2 June 1987) was a Spanish Classical guitarist Its use in classical music is limited today, but examples of pieces employing rasgueado are Manuel de Falla's "The Miller's Dance" and "Asturias" by Isaac Albéniz. Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz i Pascual (iˈsak alˈβeniθ ( May 29, 1860 &ndash May 18, 1909) was a Spanish Pianist It is also heard in the Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez. The Concierto de Aranjuez is a composition for Classical guitar and Orchestra by the Spanish Composer Joaquín Modern applications of the rasgueado technique can be seen in Tristan Murail's solo guitar piece Tellur and Lachenmann's Salut fur Caudwell. Tristan Murail (born March 11, 1947 in Le Havre, France) is a French composer associated with the " spectral " technique of Tellur ( 1977) is a Classical guitar composition by Tristan Murail dedicated to Rafael Andia. Helmut (Friedrich Lachenmann (born November 27, 1935) is a German Composer associated with musique concrète instrumentale.
Technique
In distinction with ordinary strumming, which is usually done either with a plectrum, or with one clump of fingers at a time, rasgueado generally uses only one digit (finger, thumb, etc) for each strum; this means that multiple strums can be done more quickly than usual by using multiple digits in quick succession. Flamenco guitarists often build up their fingernails using layers of silk and superglue to prevent the nail from breaking. There is some sacrifice of tonal quality in this process, but without it, rasqueado is likely to break most fingernails after a time. The wooden table of the guitar is protected from the reinforced nails by a plastic plate called a "golpeador" which is stuck to the front beneath the soundhole. A pickguard (also known as scratchplate or golpeador in Flamenco music, and uncommonly a fingerrest) is a piece of plastic or other laminated
There are several types of rasgueado, but the two main divisions are those that employ the forearm and thumb in conjunction and those that incorporate only the fingers. The forearm is the structure on the Upper limb, between the elbow and the Wrist. The thumb is the medial -most digit of the hand The English adjective for thumb is pollical A finger is a type of digit, an organ of manipulation and sensation found in the Hands of Humans and other Primates Normally humans have five digits Of course, both approaches can be combined to allow for the use of all digits on the hand. The hands ( med / lat: manus pl manūs are the two intricate prehensile multi- Fingered body parts normally located at the end of each arm of a
Application
Application of the technique is generally required to achieve the extremely rapid strumming used in flamenco, as well as to play the complex rhythms used in flamenco music. Once learned, the techniques are generally applicable to strumming, and can alter the player's entire approach to strumming and rhythm guitar.
External links
- Rasgueados are for Everyone: rasgueado method
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