How the craft passes between people. What an apprenticeship actually taught. Ferrer, Conde, Gerundino, Sanchis. What a workshop holds beyond its tools, and what dies when one closes.
Unit 1 · How the Craft Passes0/4
Unit 2 · Four Houses0/4
Unit 3 · The Workshop and What Outlives It0/4
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Module 3
The Wood
Units 1–3 · 12 lessons
The tree before the guitar. Quarter-sawing, seasoning, spruce and cedar. Why cypress makes a blanca and rosewood a negra. What a hundred years of playing does to an instrument, and why we do not restore.
Unit 1 · The Tree Before the Guitar0/4
Unit 2 · The Body0/4
Unit 3 · What Time Does0/4
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Module 4
The Palos
Units 1–3 · 12 lessons
Eight major forms by compás, region and mood. Soleá, siguiriya, tangos, fandangos, bulería, alegrías, the mining songs of the Levante, and farruca. How each palo asks something different of the guitar.
Unit 1 · Compás0/4
Unit 2 · The Deep Forms0/4
Unit 3 · The Bright and the Borrowed0/4
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Module 5
The Gitano
Units 1–3 · 12 lessons
The migration out of India and the arrival in Spain in 1425. Three centuries of prohibition. Caló, the family, the fiesta, and cante jondo. Gitano is used across Spanish life and not only in flamenco.
Unit 1 · Arrival and Prohibition0/4
Unit 2 · Language, Family, Fiesta0/4
Unit 3 · The Record and the Present0/4
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Module 6
The Collection
Units 1–3 · 12 lessons
The instruments grouped by school and lineage. Madrid, Granada, Almería, Valencia, and the smaller schools. The dynasties standing side by side, and the origin instrument that precedes the collection.