Bulerias Falseta 12 (Source: Sabicas) Key: F# Minor (Relative to A Major)

Agustin told me that this is one of Sabicas’ falsetas, although I’ve never discovered it onany of his recordings. Nevertheless, it does have Sabicas’ compositional genius. You could alsothink of the falseta in Bm; however, I usually perform this falseta out of an A Major chordingcompas, as in the accompanying recording.

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Bulerias Falseta 13 (Source: Paco del Gastor/Diego del Gastor) (F# Minor relative to A Major)

Here’s another falseta in the relative minor to A major. I’ve heard a lot of guitaristsperform this falseta, and am not absolutely certain of its geneology.

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Bulerias Falseta 14: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Major

This falseta is another of Diego’s famous trademarks. Use your 3rd finger (l.h.) for theslides. Use picado for the right hand. The melody is a Spanish folk song “La Zarzamora” (TheBlackberry”)

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Bulerias Falseta 14 (Cont.)

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Bulerias Falseta 15: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Major

This falseta has some interesting lligado counter-rhythms in the last measures, as well asa method of expressing chords in 6/8 time (see also falseta 25).

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Bulerias Falseta 16: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Major

Another of Diego’s ideas. Falsetas like this are often improvised, and you get to hearthem only once, if you happen to be in the right place, at the right time.

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Bulerias Falseta 17: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Major

Diego often performed this falseta in juergas. It is a great picado falseta in the old style.

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Bulerias Falseta 18: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Major

Here’s another falseta of Diego’s with an octave finale characteristic of the Moron style(see also falseta 19)

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Bulerias Falseta 19: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Major

Here’s another of Diego’s famous trademarks. This falseta has great expressive goodhumor in the appropriate situation.

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Bulerias Falseta 20: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Minor

Here’s a falseta of Diego del Gastor in A minor. Use your thumb for this one.

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Bulerias Falseta 21: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Minor

Another falseta in the old style, using octaves.

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Bulerias Falseta 22: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Minor

Note the interesting way the phrases resolve in this falseta.

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Bulerias Falseta 23: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Minor

Here is a melodic falseta of Diego’s; again, note the interesting resolution.

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Bulerias Falseta 24: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Minor

Another of Diegos’s famous trademarks. He usually “bends” the “chords” a little forexpression.

Bulerias Falseta 25: (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: A Minor

This falseta is similar to Falseta 15 in concept; it somewhat reminds me of “AutumnLeaves”. (This brings up an interesting point. Often Diego would hear snatches of themes ofAmerican pop music (usually from Americans at the base in Moron), and woud work them intohis toque. Americans at juergas would often be disconcerted by a Bulerias falseta with the themeof “In a Little Spanish Town” or even “How dry I am” thrown in with all the rest of the funkyGypsy stuff. Of course the Gypsies just thought it was more funky Gypsy stuff.

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Bulerias Falseta 26 (Source: Diego del Gastor) Key: B Minor

Here’s a rather extended Bulerias falseta from Diego’s “Suite in B Minor”; itsconstruction is interesting; note the syncopation/polyrhythm (5 + 5 + 2) in the chord sequence.

One point: I play this a little differently on the tape from the way it is written. After I recorded it,I went back and realized that the arpeggios were different from the way I learned it from Diego. The difference is slight; on the tape I alternate basses, where as Diego arpeggiated them.

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Bulerias Falseta 27 (Source: Uncertain) Key: A Phrygian Mode

This falseta and the next are similar, in the old style. You used to hear these performedquite often, but I’m not sure whose they are. Perhaps Melchor de Marchena, or Morao, butmaybe earlier. I doubt they are Diegos’s, since they have a different style, or “aire” from his.

Bulerias Falseta 28 (Source: Uncertain) Key: A Phrygian Mode

This falseta is a variation of the preceding one, and probably from the same source.

Bulerias Falseta 29: (Source: Diego Del Gastor) Key: A Phrygian Mode

Here’s yet another famous falseta of Diego’s; he uses variations of this in various places,for effect.