Our Concert for the end of term one concert was on December 11th 2016 at Alliance Francoise Dubai,
The Danube Classical Guitar Orchestra played few pieces at the opening. There were more Continue reading “December 11th 2016 end of term Concert at AF Dubai”
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Attention Concert
As a guitar student, once in a while you will need to perform before an audience. It can be a school assembly, class production, concert, recital or simply at home in front of parents, friends or relatives, colleagues (if you are an adult) …etc. In general it shouldn’t be a difference the concert or the performance is the same. That’s the moment when Continue reading “Attention Concert”
End Of Year Concert June 11th 2016 at Alliance Francoise Dubai
Young Guitarists performed at Alliance Francoise Dubai on Saturday June 11th…
On Saturday June 11th was our end of year concert at Alliance Francoise-Dubai there ware more that 30 young performers. From beginners to advanced. Students, Continue reading “End Of Year Concert June 11th 2016 at Alliance Francoise Dubai”
Dynamics
The dynamics are written instruction about the loudness of the music for the performer. A music piece played with no dynamics can be associated with a robot narrator reading poetry. The four components of the music sound are:
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Guitar Posture
The posture is a basic condition for a good and fluent performance. For sure your teacher has spent a lot of time talking about it. For sure you have tried many ways of holding the guitar
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Choosing a new piece
The concert or the exam is coming soon, in a month time, looks like there is enough time to learn that new piece or pieces, but…as the performance day approaches you feel nervous and insecure, it would be great if it gets postponed by another month or so…Is that situation familiar to you? Continue reading “Choosing a new piece”
Those Scales and Techniques!?
Some of the classical guitar students will find practicing their scales kind of pointless and boring. I can understand that up to certain extend. The student, especially a beginner, may find it hard to believe or accept that playing a line of consecutive notes over and over will eventually improve their overall performance. Sometimes we, the teachers, get too busy putting together “those three pieces and that bunch of scales” for the coming exam, that Continue reading “Those Scales and Techniques!?”
How long do I need to practice for my guitar lessons?
I often get this question from students and parents, either in the very beginning when the first lesson is over or when for some reasons the student realizes that their progress is not good enough or not as good as they expect.
The answer can never be right. Well yes, the one need to practice but there are no such things as rules and regulations on how much practice the one should do. Usually the teachers say some number of Continue reading “How long do I need to practice for my guitar lessons?”
Tablature/TAB
The tablature is a very old way of writing down the music for positioned string instruments, such as Lute, Guitar, Theorba, Vihuela …In the Renaissance they ware several types of tablature: Italian German, French…In general the tablature shows graphically the string numbers and the fret numbers.Today the most widely presented in the web type of TAB for guitar, is the following: Continue reading “Tablature/TAB”
Choosing your guitar teacher
Making a choice of who to be your guitar teacher can be a changeling task. Here are some of my thought of what to consider wile attempting to learn guitar
At one point you have decided to do something different, you got that desire and motivation to play guitar, you are excited about it, or your child is already old enough and you are considering getting them involved in music with guitar. Next step is to find the right teacher and start the guitar lessons.Learning guitar is a long term commitment. Sometimes it is not easy to find a good teacher to feel comfortable with and to trust them. To begin with, Continue reading “Choosing your guitar teacher”
About “The new thing” in the guitar lesson
About “The new thing” in the guitar lesson
Often I get students saying:
” We did this last week, I know it…”
There is a big difference between “I know it” and “I can do it” when it comes to skills.
The new thing can be anything from a new note, new technique, a theory concept…usually it is introduced theoretically in the class in order the student to have an idea about that particular mater.
Next step is to master the new thing by means Continue reading “About “The new thing” in the guitar lesson”
“Missing a guitar lesson”
As there are many aspects of the music education (I mean subjects) in reality each lesson consists of several subjects which we cover regularly…in general some of those subjects are the following: Continue reading ““Missing a guitar lesson””
What Guitar do you need to start your Classical Guitar lessons?
To start your classical guitar lessons, you need a classical (Spanish) guitar.
There are plenty of music stores where you can buy one. The sells man usually are pretty helpful, in general they do a good job, some of them are even able to strum some chords on the guitar, trying to impress the costumer. But as you are a beginner and you never had guitar lessons, it is easy to be miss leaded by them. In the and of the day their job is to sell. So its not a good idea to relay Continue reading “What Guitar do you need to start your Classical Guitar lessons?”
“About being relaxed while playing guitar”
“Is it a mistake to attempt to play relaxed.”
At first what means “relaxed”? We have to agree somehow which meaning of that word we mean by using it in the guitar playing. If we take “relaxed” as that state of the body and the mind, where no physical action exists…Yes, in this respect the statement is absolutely right. But if we agree that by relaxed, we will understand: “to play with less strain or tension”-then that is the state we have to aim to. Continue reading ““About being relaxed while playing guitar””