Its use in classical music is limited today, but examples of pieces employing rasgueado are "Asturias" (composed for piano by Isaac Albéniz but often played in arrangement for guitar), Manuel de Falla's "The Miller's Dance" (a farruca from The Three-Cornered Hat).
Modern applications of the rasgueado technique can be seen in Luciano Berio's "Sequenza XI" and Tristan Murail's solo guitar piece Tellur.
Flamenco guitarists often build up their fingernails using layers of silk and superglue to protect the nail from breaking.
The wooden table of the guitar is protected from the reinforced nails by a plastic plate called a "golpeador" which is stuck to the front beneath the soundhole.
[citation needed] Application of the technique is generally required to achieve the rapid strumming and complex rhythms used in flamenco music.