The Warrior Network teaches instruments one family at a time, each in real depth on its own site. Flamenco Warrior exists because the thing that makes flamenco flamenco is not any one instrument’s technique. It is the compás: every palo is laid out on a cycle of counts, a handful of those counts are accented, and the singer, the guitarist, the clappers and the dancer all have to agree about where the cycle is. None of that belongs to the guitar, and all of it is played on it.
The test a genre site has to pass is whether it is additive. A site about flamenco could very easily become a copy of the guitar pages with a genre word stapled on, or a scale chart. So the subject was chosen by subtraction: take everything the network’s other sites already teach properly, remove it, and publish only what is left over.
Additive, or it shouldn’t exist
The ledger, stated plainly, so it can be checked rather than believed:
- String Warrior keeps the guitar. The flamenco guitar is the network’s nylon-strung classical guitar, and its deep home is the hub. This site draws the chords and scales the toque needs and links every one of those pages to the same page there.
- Theory Warrior keeps the theory. Why the Phrygian scale or a descending four-chord cadence sounds the way it does is its subject. This site says only which palo uses which, and where on the cycle.
- Charango Warrior and Mariachi Warrior keep their strum engines — the charango’s named strokes, and the pattern a mariachi section plays as one. Flamenco’s strumming hand is named here only in passing; the subject here is the count it marks.
- Jazz Warrior keeps the tune, Bluegrass Warrior the band as a working room, and Nashville Warrior the chart a session reads from. None of their vocabulary is borrowed here.
What is left is flamenco by compás, and the heart of it is the part no other site computes: four palos, each declared from a published source as a cycle of counts with its accents, its tonality and its cadence — and everything else derived from those declarations: how each cycle groups, which palos share a cycle, and each cadence realised in whatever key you choose. Around it sit the seats of a cuadro and what each does to the count, and full chord, scale, key and fretboard references for the guitar.
The network
Flamenco Warrior is part of the Warrior Network alongside String Warrior, the multi-instrument hub, and Theory Warrior, where the theory this site leans on is taught from first principles. The network page says which sister answers which question.
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