Matt Hall great to have you here Matt! If you are already playing classical guitar you will for sure have some advantages learning the Flamenco guitar! 

Rachel Holmes great to have you in this course Rachel! Looking forward to hearing your results!

David great to have you here! Don‘t worry about the length of your nails, you should also be able to do exercise nr. 1 and 3 without any nails. Alzapúa might be a little tricky though…maybe you could consider only letting your thumbnail grow a little bit. As far as I have seen, most part of the professional Flamenco guitarists also use short nails. It is much more comfortable for the piccados (fast scales) and also the arpeggios. Whatever you try out, I am looking forward to hearing your results :-)

Michel Giroux great video, it looks already much better!

as you said, the second version of the abanico is not as crispy as the first. This has to da with the nails. In the first version I use all three times the upper side of the nails that makes it more crispy. I always felt that the second might be easier to learn but you could quickly break your thumb nail (if you are not using the flesh going down) and that is a risk I really never wanted to take.

about the Rasgueados: We have several tipes of Rasgueados, the one of 5,4,3 and even on 2. It depends a lot on the situation which one you can use but in this particular case, we are going to learn the basic Tangos rhythm where we can use the exact same Rasgueado that I showed you beforehand.

make sure to go all the way up with your hand when doing the Abanico (it should feel like a rotation of your wrist to the left) and then staying with your index finger up while your ringfinger is going down.

keep up the good work! Looking forward to hearing your results.

Raul Guzman Vidal great to have you here! I have a few tipps that might help you a bit

Try to position your hand with more distance between the wrist and the top of the guitar. You will have a more frontal attack with your Thumb on the string for the Alzapúa. I talk about this in video Nr.5
 

when doing the Abanico try to keep your fingers outside of the palm of your hand. Compared to exercise Nr.1 we are doing most of the work with our wrist and not with every single finger. Thats why we don‘t want to build up unnecessary tension on our hand and instead keeping our fingers a little curved.

Please let me know if this helped a little bit!

David great job! Your rasgueados in exercise 1 are already sounding great.

try to get a more frontal attack with your thumb while doing the Alzapúa. I explain it in video nr. 5 and I think it might help you to feel more comfortable doing the Alzapúa.

Also make sure that while your ringfinger is going down in the Abanico (ex.3) you let your middlefinger go down aswell or at least stretch a little bit. We don‘t want the hand to be too closed since this will generate too much tension in our hand. The only finger that has to stay up is the indexfinger before it goes down in the third movement of the triplets.

keep up the good work, really liked your Rasgueados! :-)

David great work and thank you very much for sharing!! I know that writing down Flamenco is a very though task considering all the accents and different techniques for the right hand! I think you found a amazing way to write it and shouldn‘t change much. Maybe you could add some accents on the important notes instead of writing classical dynamics (piano, forte etc.) I would do different variations of articulation regarding the last „A“ chord, it depends a lot on wheter you are finishing a Falseta (mini-solo) or just playing the Compás (basic-rhythm)

please keep up the good work! 

peter hancock thanks for your question. There is a great book by Juan Martin with easy pieces (I think there are around 42). Have a look at this one or the Paco Peña „Toques Flamencos“ (but they are more difficult than the ones from J.Martin)

I hope this helps!