Meaning of rasgueo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A strumming technique associated with flamenco guitar playing; rasgueado.
   uncountable
2. A passage within a song featuring guitar played with the technique.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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

“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)”

“There are several factors that contribute⟳ to the variety of options open⟳ to the guitar player when dealing with rasgueo. If a chord is held down by the left hand, the attack will sound⟳ differently depending on whether the fingers on the right hand thrust down, aided by gravity and the extension of the fingers, or are drawn up across the strings in a gripping action.”

“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.”

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