Tango Guitar Course: The Comping Role
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Sebastian
Henriquez
GUITARIST | PRODUCER | TEACHER
Biography
He is the author of the book "La guitarra en el tango" part of the Metodo de Tango collection (Tango Sin Fin - 2018), with reviews by Pat Metheny, Cesar Angeleri and Berta Rojas.
Latin Grammy Winner 2022, in the best classical music album category, as producer of the album "Legado" by Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas.
He is guitarist in Pedro Aznar's band, in "Quinteto Bataraz", nominated for "Latin Grammy 2018" "WOMEX Selection 2016", winner of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes award and two Premios Gardel 2015; winner of the FNA award; and in Cesar Angeleri's Quartet. As a session musician he works daily alongside producers Juan Blas Caballero, Cachorro Lopez and Popi Spatocco.
As a session guitarist he has recorded on more than 50 albums including recordings for: Pedro Aznar, Natalia Lafourcade, Ricardo Montaner, and has performed live and recorded with Pedro Aznar, Guillermo Fernandez, Julia Zenko, Hernan Lucero, La Bruja Salguero, Florencia Davalos, among others.
He is a professor at the Argentine Music degree at Universidad Nacional de San Martin and at the Tango and Folklore program at Conservatorio Superior de Musica Manuel de Falla, from which he also graduated. He is part of the teaching team of "Tango for musicians" with whom he gives international workshops every year (USA / Austria / Germany / Colombia)
TIME-MARKING MODELS
The roles of the guitar in its many functions and contexts. Types of toques.
RHYTHMIC MELODY
Articulation as a fundamental constituent element of the tango language.
EXPRESSIVE MELODY
Fraseo and ornamentation as essential expressive devices.
Also
La milonga and the waltz, linking passages, guidelines for playing in an ensemble, the history of the guitar in tango, the orchestral styles of the genre and more.
8 ORIGINAL WORKS for guitar and ensemble.
350 examples in audio and video
FUNDAMENTAL METHOD TO LEARN TO PLAY TANGO
The Guitar in tango. Sebastian Henriquez.