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Actually what he did was remove a measure of music, not add strum. Measure 2 should be inserted between his measure 5 and 6 to have exact as sabicas. By removing the measure it all works, but personally would argue AGAINST the entire falseta being phrased this way. Why? Because buleria has more then one underlying feel, but for sure one could be "crossed" and really missing the bigger picture.
My personal feeling is that this falseta starts on 10. There for sure are some sabicasfalsetas that start on 1, but if you are tapping you foot 12,2,4,6,8,10 which for sure would work for this falseta from BEGINNING TO END....well this entire thing (including the missing measure of music) needs to start on 10 as a pick up to the 12.
The golpes he does in measure 4 have the remate feel as well (7,8,9) vs as it reads (10,11,12) at least to me. you could imagine the end of the first line doesnt repeat and he could rasgueado on count 1 to close...but it should be 10.
It is only my opinion, but often times the ins and outs of a falseta are important to study as they effect the overall feel of the phrasing. To me it is clear his only "mistake" was his starting point. I have heard him do falsetas starting on 4, and its really felt as 10 because he does a half compas before of strum. (up,tap tap, up GO!)
If you learn this falseta starting on 1 as written it totally works out, but the entire feel (up to measure 6 at least) will not be what I think was the intent.