Flamenco is about expressing feeling in rules and traditions
Flamenco is an art form built on musical rules and traditions. One example of the rules is the 12 beats structure of Soleares and Alegrias. Flamenco artists are demanded to commit the rules into memory to become a natural part of their own. Each Flamenco style has its own story to tell. Flamenco Singers and Guitar players are storytellers expressing the emotional depth and thoughts of the traditions and stories in rules. To a large extent, Flamenco rudimentarily an art form instrumental to express with passions and emotions. This makes it very attractive to audience as well as performer.

Learning the Flamenco Guitar is not about collecting and possessing score and books. It is all about learning with the heart and with bodily execution of the music in passion. High quality Flamenco sheet music, published by renowned Flamenco music transcription writers, are definitely helpful but they could never help anyone to play proper Flamenco; because score is just static data if the owner does not know how to produce the Flamenco sound on the guitar.

Flamenco Guitar Playing Technique
Right hand techniques play an important role in Flamenco Guitar. They are the tools of any Flamenco Guitar artist to create the Duende (the spirit), in complying with rules, traditions with passions. Analogy is like the painter's ability to use colours and brush work to present his idea of the world. Some of the Flamenco guitar techniques are unique for Flamenco while some are similar to that of Classical Guitar. By large, Flamenco Guitar techniques could be grouped to 5 categories:

1. Resguardos – Repetitive strumming of chords with a pattern
2. Picado – Playing of scales and lines of notes in an rapid pace
3. Appegio – Playing a pattern of a chord.
4. Tremolo – A technique inherited from classical guitar but with variation.
5. Thumb Work – Use the right hand thumb extensively to play melodies, chords or a special technique called Alzapua.
   

Authentic Flamenco Music
Flamenco Music could be good or not so good. But it is more importantly, audience should distinguish whether the music is real Flamenco or not. By large, one should consider the "Sound", "Techniques" and "Materials" as basic assessments to determine whether the music is authentic Flamenco.

Using Flamenco Guitar Technique to play a popular tune, like Romance del Amor, should not be considered to be authentic Flamenco because of the material do not belong to any styles of Flamenco, despite the fact that the music may be very nice and entertaining. Having said that, many renowned Flamenco artists do include one or few pieces that presenting the popular tune with Flamenco Guitar Technique for entertaining audience or creating atmosphere. Renowned or established Flamenco would never play this kind of music as major part of their performance.

Very often, misconceptions of the art could sometimes be created performance that fusions Flamenco with other art forms or simply applying Flamenco Guitar Techniques to local or popular music. This significantly compromises the authenticity and purity of Flamenco music. For artists, either Dancers or Guitarists, who fusion Flamenco with other forms of art but never master each art individually by demonstrating their knowledge publicly, their acts of fusion would create another kind of music which is neither Flamenco nor anything else. Presentation of this kind of music in the long run diminishes the glamour of the art.