Every palo, with its compás
Ten palos, each with its accents where they really fall. Tap one to hear it with the full accompaniment.
12-beat compás
6 palosAlegrías
Born in Cádiz, within the cantiñas family: the same 12-beat compás as the soleá por bulerías, but in a festive mood.
Bulerías
The fastest, freest palo in flamenco: it almost always closes the party and leaves plenty of room for everyone to improvise.
Fandangos
Of Arabic and Portuguese descent —it recalls the fado—, with dozens of regional variants and the freest pulse of the 12-beat palos.
Seguiriyas
The most tragic and deepest palo, full of lament — and its compás does not start where you would expect: it begins on beat 8.
Soleá
The deepest and most solemn of the palos: slow, sober and profoundly moving — the root from which many other 12-beat compases grew.
Soleá por bulerías
A bridge between two palos: the depth of the soleá with the livelier pulse of the bulería, often used to move from one to the other.
6-beat compás
1 paloTanguillos
The soul of the Cádiz Carnival: mocking, breathlessly fast, and the result of layering three different compases over one cycle.
4-beat compás
2 palosRumbas
With roots in the Cuban rumba, this is the most festive and danceable palo: the same 4-beat compás as the tango, at twice the pulse.
Tangos
A 4-beat compás, cheerful and direct, straight from the courtyard party: the tangos of Cádiz and Triana are at the root of the Argentine tango.
3-beat compás
1 paloSevillanas
The most popular and most danced palo in all of Andalusia: danced in pairs, verse by verse, and almost everyone gives it a try sooner or later.
Everything it does
Instruments or Full
Switch on cajón, palmas, castanets… as many as you like at once, each with its own pattern and volume. Or play the whole accompaniment in one go.
At your speed, without changing the pitch
Speed the tempo up or slow it down while it plays: the recording stretches without changing pitch. With the speed trainer, the tempo rises on its own every few compases up to where you set it.
Wheel or line, and how it is counted
See the compás on the wheel or on a line, and choose how to count it: bulerías in 12 or in 6, tanguillos in 6/8 or in 3/4.
And also
- Fills
- Every few compases, one instrument closes with a recorded fill while the others carry on.
- With the screen off
- It keeps playing in compás with the phone locked.
- Reference click
- A tick on every beat, over the recording, exactly where the wheel marks it.
- Your colour, your language
- Five palettes, light or dark, and in Spanish, English, French, Japanese and Chinese.
- No accounts, no data
- No sign-up, no ads: the app sends nothing about you.
For guitarists, and for everyone who plays flamenco
It was born to practise guitar with the real compás underneath. It works just as well for dancing, for singing, for cajón or palmas, or for bringing your piano, violin, flute or sax into flamenco.
- Guitar
- Dance
- Cante
- Cajón
- Palmas
- Piano
- Violin
- Flute
- Saxophone
- and any instrument, or anyone into flamenco
Free to try
The app is a free download. In the trial version it plays 1 minute out of every 2, with everything else open. The full version, with no cuts, is a single in-app purchase.
