Your first excersize will be to do an up- and downstrokes with your index fingers.  You let your thumb rest on the E-base-string.  Then you bend your indexfinger up to the palm were your thumb starts.  From there you flick out the index  downwards across the strings.  Then you come back, hiting the strings on your way up to the starting position.  Here is how it looks like, written in notes:

    The first arrow marks the downbeat with the index and the second, the upbeat.  Now you can practice this a few times.  Notice that you don´t drag your index across the strings.  You hit them so it sounds like one beat.  Do this continuosly, down-up, down-up...etc.  Now you´re starting to feel a rhythm.  Then you increase the speed.  This is where the flamenco developed from.  From here we go to the basic techniques used in flamenco.

    The word "rasgueo" is used in flamenco and embraces all strumming techniques using one or more fingers.  What you have just done was the indexfinger rasgueo.

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