Armonía Flamenca is a centre for the serious study of flamenco — its history, its forms, its guitar technique, and its place in the broader Western musical tradition. Flamenco is not folk music in any simple sense. It is a sophisticated art with deep roots in Andalusian culture, shaped by Romani, Moorish, Jewish, and Spanish influences over centuries. This site approaches it as theory: compás, harmony, modal identity, and the internal logic of each palo. The Phrygian mode, the cadencia andaluza, the distinction between jondo and festero forms — these are the building blocks. An encyclopedia of palos traces each form from its geographic origin through its rhythmic structure to the letras that define it. To understand flamenco is to understand an entire way of feeling time.

From its Baroque origins in the alfabeto tablatures of Gaspar Sanz to the revolutionary harmonic language of Paco de Lucía, the Spanish guitar carries a tradition unlike any other. It is at once percussive and lyrical, modal and tonal, solo and accompaniment. The rasgueado, the picado, the golpe — each technique is a vocabulary. This site documents that vocabulary with rigor and love, from the five-course Baroque guitar through the classical innovations of Tárrega to the modern toque flamenco. Transcriptions, method books, and historical recordings trace the instrument across five centuries. No other instrument is so completely fused with the soul of a single culture.

Flamenco guitarist, researcher, and educator based in New Mexico and California. His unpublished doctoral dissertation, Flamenco: Lament and Other Cultural Models, examines the emotional and cultural frameworks that give flamenco its expressive depth. [ … to edit … ] His work bridges the academy and the tablao — treating flamenco as both a subject of rigorous scholarship and a living practice that demands physical commitment and cultural immersion.

An interactive metronome built from the ground up for flamenco. Each palo — Soleares, Bulerías, Siguiriyas, Tangos, Farruca, and more — is rendered with its authentic accent pattern, correct beat numbering, and characteristic compás. Subdivision controls reveal the contratiempos that give each form its swing. Improv mode cycles through grouping variations used in live performance. Choose between click, palmas, and cajón sounds. A standard metrónomo regular is also included for non-flamenco practice. Four visual aesthetics — Soniquetazo, Lunares, Azulejo, and Sonios Negros — each set the mood. Feel the compás before you can explain it — that is where flamenco begins.