Product Description
I
hope you will enjoy this note-for-note transcription of the wonderful Verde
Selva by the great Flamenco guitarist, Juan Serrano, from his 1965 RCA
Victor recording Popular Music of Spain and the Old World. Verde Selva is a rumba, a rhythmic dance that has its
origins in Cuba, becoming a part of the flamenco tradition in the 19th century in
Andalusia, Spain. The playing technique used by Serrano in Verde Selva is often referred to as Rumba Melodica
due to its use of arpeggiated chords rather than the rhythmic strumming that is
typically associated with rumbas. As it is typical for Flamenco
guitarists to improvise and change their pieces with subsequent performances,
Juan Serranos Verde Selva evolved over the span of his career,
resulting in two versions of the piece; the first, featured on the 1965 vinyl
LP Popular Music of Spain and the Old World (the basis for this
transcription) and the second, in the 1981 Mel Bay publication Juan
Serrano Flamenco Concert Selections, which included Juan Serranos own
transcription of his then current version of the piece, along with the recorded
track on the included audio CD. Although it is this 1981 version that is
performed by guitarists, today, it is my fondness of the 1965 Popular Music
of Spain and the Old World recording that inspired me to transcribe this rendition
of Serranos Verde Selva, a transcription which had not before been
released to the public. Although this transcription is note-for-note to the
original recording, liberties were taken only in one regard in that repeats
were added in some sections to give more length to this beautiful piece.
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