Considering the lack of systematized material that helps to train instrumentalists, the civil association Escuela de Charanguistas works constantly to create new didactic content for charango and Latin American folk instruments.

Iniciación al Charango (2018) [Initiation to Charango]

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Author: Patricio Sullivan
Ellisound Editions
Printed edition, includes DVD
Level: Beginner (with scores, tablatures and chord code)
Language: Spanish

Description:
In this Initiation book, we select those elementary concepts and technical resources necessary to learn to play this instrument step by step.
Taking Andean music as a starting point, we will present the most used binary rhythms within the traditional repertoire of the Charango.

Content

The Charango
Tuning
Glossary

Tinku:
Pluck, accompaniments and lyrics
Imillitay
Señora Chichera (one and two voices)

Huayno/Carnavalito:
Pluck, accompaniments and lyrics
Ojos Azules (one and two voices)
Plantita de Alelí (one and two voices)
La vicuñita (one and two voices)
Canción y Huayno (one and two voices)

Taquirari:
Pluck, accompaniments and lyrics
Cunumicita
Oh! Cochabamba

Saya:
Pluck, accompaniments and lyrics
La fiesta de San Benito
Sayita del Charanguero

Technique:
Strumming of all rhythms and chords
Pentatonic scale, one and two voices
Major scale
Pair scale up to 8th fret

El Charango en la Música Clásica (2012) [Charango in Classical Music]

El Charango en la Música Clásica
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Author: Patricio Sullivan
Ellisound Editions
Printed edition, includes DVD
Level: Intermediate / Advanced (with scores and tablatures)
Language: Spanish

Description:
This book is an invitation to meet and perform solo works for charango, specially arranged and transcribed by the author for this book.
Includes works by Bach, Vivaldi, Paganini, Bergen, among others.
All the musical examples are accompanied by an Audio CD with the solo charango tracks, at two speeds.

Repertoire

  1. Canarios (Gaspar Sanz)
  2. Trio en La menor (Antonio Vivaldi)
  3. Bourree (Juan Sebastián Bach)
  4. Invención nro. 13 (Juan Sebastián Bach)
  5. Polonesa (Juan Sebastián Bach)
  6. Bouree (Graf Bergen)
  7. Allegretto (Mauro Giuliani)
  8. Minuetto (Níccolo Paganini)
  9. Sonatina (Níccolo Paganini)

El Charango en la Música Folklórica (2011) [Charango in Folk Music]

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Author: Patricio Sullivan
Ellisound Editions
Printed edition, includes DVD
Level: Intermediate / Advanced (with scores and tablatures)
Language: Spanish

Description:
This book was designed to go along with the charanguista who already has a basic training in the instrument.
An opportunity to know and interpret the Argentinian folkloric musical species: Zamba, Cueca norteña and cuyana, Gato, Chacarera, Vidala, Huayno, Tonada, among others. It includes solo arrangements for picking and strumming to accompany the songs. All the musical examples are accompanied by an Audio CD with charango solo tracks and also in versions with bass, drum and guitar.

Description

  1. Huayno y Carnavalito – El Avenido (Cuchi Leguizamón)
  2. Vidala – Que viva Santiago y el Algarrobal (Leda Valladares)
  3. Bailecito – Camino de llamas (Uña Ramos)
  4. Zamba – Piedra y Camino (Atahualpa Yupanqui)
  5. Cueca norteña – La arenosa (Cuchi Leguizamón)
  6. Chacarera – La carbonera (Hermanos Ábalos)
  7. Gato Norteño – De la raíz a la copa (Juan Falú)
  8. Gato Cuyano – De la prima a la bordona (Alfonzo y Zabala)
  9. Cueca Cuyana – Manantial (Patricio Sullivan)
  10. Tonada Cuyana – Tonada a San Martín (Patricio Sullivan)

Los Secretos del Charango Volumen 2 (2009) [Charango Secrets Volume 2]

Los Secretos del Charango 2
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Authors: Daniel Navarro – Patricio Sullivan
Printed edition, includes DVD
Level: Intermediate/Advanced (with scores and tablatures)
Language: Spanish

Description: This book is the didactic continuity of volume 1, adding a variety of technical resources applied to the charango, music reading exercise and repertoire.

Content

  • El Trino
  • El Armónico
  • El Armónico artificial
  • La ligadura de expresión
  • El arpeggiato
  • El trémolo arpegiado
  • Patrones de escalas mayor y menor antigua
  • Aplicaciones de variantes rítmicas a la escala mayor y menor
  • Ligados ascendentes y descendentes
  • Ejercicios de velocidad
  • Ejercicios de lectura por pentagrama
  • Tabla de acordes

Repertoire

  1. Estudio para charango (Huayno)
  2. Inti yacu (Vidala – Huayno)
  3. La cochabambinita (Bailecito)
  4. La nadita (Chacarera)
  5. Viene clareando (Zamba)
  6. Arriero (Kalampeado)
  7. El cóndor pasa (Yaraví – Huayno)
  8. El humahuaqueño (Carnavalito)
  9. Viva Jujuy (Bailecito)
  10. Tristonio (Aire de Bailecito)
  11. Cuando nace la Amapola (Takirari)
  12. Rosendo (Cueca)
  13. Siembra de amor (Polca)
  14. Caminito (Tango)
  15. Quisiera ser tu sombra (Vals venezolano)

Los Secretos del Charango Volumen 1 (2005) [Charango Secrets Volume 1]

Los Secretos del Charango

Authors: Daniel Navarro – Patricio Sullivan
Printed edition, includes CD
Level: Intermediate/Advanced (with scores and tablatures)
Language: Spanish

Description: Ideal to start your charango studies and get to interpret a repertoire with medium difficulty.
Each of the two books includes a CD, with all the exercises, topics and examples recorded in audio.

Content

  • Descripción y afinación del charango
  • Introducción al rasgueo
  • Introducción al punteo
  • 20 ejercicios de variantes de rasgueos de Huayno, Cueca y Taquirari
  • 10 ejercicios de punteo
  • 10 estudios de arpegios
  • 30 ejercicios para aprender lectura en pentagrama desde el charango
  • Tabla de acordes
  • Teoría musical

Repertoire

  1. Ojos azules
  2. Arbolito
  3. Oh! Cochabamba
  4. Kacharpari
  5. Zarkaway
  6. Charango triste
  7. Ausencia
  8. Canción y Huayno
  9. La sombra de tu sonrisa
  10. La argentinita
  11. Ven a mí
  12. Cueca del negro