The most beautiful Bulerias falseta composed in A phryg

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metalhead

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The most beautiful Bulerias falseta ...

Among Bulerias falsetas in A Phrygian, the falseta at the end of Bulerias Neferet by Manuel Valencia is in my book the most beautiful.

Whenever I play it I can't help but appreciate how masterfully he composed this.

I am deliberately arguing for most beautiful [in the key of A Phrygian] rather than the best overall.

A hunch of mine is that he took the E7 to A major arpeggio and composed the falseta around it.

I wonder if there's a godfather falseta that this is inspired from?

A close contender of this spot for me is the 3rd Falseta in La Tumbona.

https://youtu.be/TR7JKzHotws?si=dJpuoA0Gy3tahl6n

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rombsix

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RE: The most beautiful Bulerias fals... (in reply to metalhead)

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Among Bulerias falsetas in A Phrygian, the falseta at the end of Bulerias Neferet by Manuel Valencia is in my book the most beautiful.

At what timestamp exactly in this video? (precise start time and end time)

You mean this - 1:42 to 2:20 - regarding PdL's Tumbona?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 1 2026 13:30:16

metalhead

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RE: The most beautiful Bulerias fals... (in reply to rombsix)

starts from 3:29 & until the very end.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 1 2026 13:33:20

rombsix

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RE: The most beautiful Bulerias fals... (in reply to metalhead)

quote:

starts from 3:29 & until the very end.

Very pretty, for sure. My kind of harmonies

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 1 2026 13:38:24

Stu

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RE: The most beautiful Bulerias fals... (in reply to metalhead)

Yeah nice one. I like.

Could've posted on devilhands favourite falseta thread!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 1 2026 21:54:01

Ricardo

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RE: The most beautiful Bulerias fals... (in reply to metalhead)

I always felt Paco de lucías "Punta del faro" was the best traditional style bulerías, could have been just that one off performance but it has a lot of magic for some reason.

The bulerías by Enrique del Melchor on Cuchichi has a similar magical quality, not sure what it is but for me one of the best sounding guitars ever recorded. Both this and the previous have this unusual "Majestic" quality.

I was impressed or surprised by the outro arpegio that is quite soft and delicate on Antonio Rey's "Colores del Fuego" the first bulería. The rest of it is more hard driving traditional Jerez style then the ending comes out of nowhere, very nice.

4:15 to the end:

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 2 2026 11:56:22

metalhead

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RE: The most beautiful Bulerias fals... (in reply to rombsix)

quote:

You mean this - 1:42 to 2:20 - regarding PdL's Tumbona?

Yep, that one in La Tumbona.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 2 2026 12:44:04

metalhead

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RE: The most beautiful Bulerias fals... (in reply to Ricardo)

Punta Del Faro is also really great. It has one great [and difficult] pulgar falseta, I think the fourth one? It's just too good.

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Arash

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RE: The most beautiful Bulerias fals... (in reply to Ricardo)

Both have a slightly "destorted and harsh" recording sound, with lots of "punch" in midrange.
I guess the way they did the Paco recording (old school natural tape saturation, old school reverb) gets this sound. And I guess they reproduced that sound in Enrique's case.

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