Rasgueo

Quick meaning: Rasgueo is a noun meaning (music, uncountable) A strumming technique associated with flamenco guitar playing; rasgueado.

Meaning

(music, uncountable) A strumming technique associated with flamenco guitar playing; rasgueado.

More Meanings

1. (music) A passage within a song featuring guitar played with the technique.

Example Sentences

There’s no denying that flamenco guitar with its machine-gun speed picking riffs and dizzying helicopter-like ‘rasgueo’ hand strums is physically punishing.

The prominent rhythm is ♩♫♩, with the first note receiving stress through an agogic or dynamic accent, by being arpeggiated rapidly, or with an upward movement of the rasgueo.

His technique on the instrument mainly consists of medium-tempo strums and is somewhat rudimentary—compared to the virtuosic rasgueos of Los Sumac Huaynas’ Chocni López (briefly discussed in Chapter 3)

On a larger structural level, there are semi-independent musical units or blocks, which, when placed within a compás and assembled, create a piece. These components include rasgueos (here I refer to the structural unit, which is comprised of the technique mentioned above), falsetas, llamadas (Eng. call), cierres and remates.

Word Forms

• rasgueos

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