[ his book: charango method]

"This Book is an important tool for those who wish to start or enhance their study of charango.
My special thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts of the National Culture Secretariat, which sponsored my work and enabled me to complete this Charango Method.

It is a 160-page book divided into chapters, as follows".

Rolando Goldman

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León Gieco's commentary

Rolando has been a friend of mine for many years. He is a musician fully committed to Argentine social reality, which -as I see it- is very important when doing an artistic work; be it a disc, a book, a movie, a painting, or a sculpture.

The book you now have in your hands is his Charango Method. The charango bearing a dry and deep timbre is original and highly representative of the Argentine North-West region, Bolivia, Peru, and Chile.

The Method is easy to learn, due to the way it is written. Easy to read, it has an agile reading. It is clear and has a reading and a teaching methodology with silences. Music silences, as all good songs and regions represented by this instrument have.

With huaynos, bailecitos, cuecas, zambas, chacareras, yaravíes, takiraris, k'halampeados, tangos, and other rhythms, this Charango Method is an artistic and educational work by an author who, as I said at the beginning, is a restless fighter for just causes.

León Gieco