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Hey guys ! I'm about to graduate high school and will have some time up my sleeve. I am keen to undergo worthwhile experiences, especially in terms of music , specifically but not limited to guitar. I live in Australia , but am willing to travel. Any suggestions please ? guitar apprenticeships, guitar internship, guitar constructing , spanish guitar studies etc….. details/websites would be great, Thanks very much everyone ! first post eva. ANY GENRE
I'm about to graduate high school and will have some time up my sleeve. I am keen to undergo worthwhile experiences, especially in terms of music , specifically but not limited to guitar. I live in Australia , but am willing to travel. Any suggestions please ? guitar apprenticeships, guitar internship, guitar constructing , spanish guitar studies etc…..
Welcome to the Foro, NAV30. As someone about to graduate high school with "some time" to "undergo worthwhile experiences," I suggest you focus a bit on what you really want to do with your time. You are young and all over the map with "music" "not necessarily limited to guitar." And when you do discuss guitar you cover the ground from learning to play to learning guitar-making (becoming a luthier) to apprenticeships, internships, etc.
No one can offer you advice if you haven't thought out what it is you really want to do yourself. So my "advice," if you can call it that, is to settle down and give some careful thought to how you can best utilize your time, and in order to do that, you have to determine what it is you want to do, and that applies to music as well as anything else.
Cheers,
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East."
Suggest you spend a year bumming around Europe. It's the history of western culture. A buddy would be useful and you will have to be willing to pick up odd jobs unless you have an annuity. I gather you haven't begun guitar studies so a year more or less won't matter. This is off the wall I know but it describes an experience a young man of your age had doing just that. It concerns the American writer/composer/translator Paul Bowles who cut short his first year in college in 1930 to travel to Paris with borrowed money and then using his skill as a pianist and intelligence managed to bum off such icons as Gertrude Stein. Terribly romantic and but perhaps you might be motivated by it.
Your obvious affection for Paul Bowles, Aeolus, has been demonstrated time and again. I have read Bowles from beginning to end, and I agree that he is an interesting character, although not the be all and end all of Western searching for the "meaning of it all" in the deserts of Morocco and Algeria, much less of Europe. Bowles, while interesting, does not offer a template for today's seekers of experience. this young man needs to find his own path, not the path that Bowles walked.
Cheers,
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East."
Fair enough guys , I should have included more detail , here it is, and thank also.
Years playing - 4 years Level - Intermediate Aptitude - High
Looking for : Intensive course (2- 4weeks) in one or more of the following . 1) is most preferred
1) Guitar Playing 2) Gutair construction 3) Anything else music related
Of course, I'm assuming the people on this forum know alot about flamenco guitar opportunities.
Why did i make my first comment so broad in temrs of genres and opportunities ? If someone was/is reading this thread and has a great idea but it doesnt fall under my specific criterions, it would be a real pity if they didnt post it and I missed out on a potetntially 'worthwhile' experience.
Hi For an ongoing experience Without travelling abroad Australia does offer some fine luthiers Jim Redgate comes to mind Most cities offer flamenco studios with good guitarists to take courses with.. In Adelaide alone there are five active studios Some Australian teachers are Aloysius Leeson -Adelaide Kieran Ray- Melbourne Antony hadjion-Melbourne Felipe Kuntz-Sydney Andrew vievers-Brisbane Damian wright-Sydney
We also have an international guitar festival which offers workshops during its course Previous workshops included Jason McGuire, Paulo Bellanti, Elliot Fisk to name a few
Your obvious affection for Paul Bowles, Aeolus, has been demonstrated time and again. I have read Bowles from beginning to end, and I agree that he is an interesting character, although not the be all and end all of Western searching for the "meaning of it all" in the deserts of Morocco and Algeria, much less of Europe. Bowles, while interesting, does not offer a template for today's seekers of experience. this young man needs to find his own path, not the path that Bowles walked.
!00 Euros a day seems anything but frugal but I can except that times have changed since I did it armed with the best selling Europe on $5 a day. Well the exchange rate was VERY favorable back then. The young man may not care anything for art, literature, music, or architecture in which case I advise him to say home.
Nav30 do you have a EU passport? If you do, it'll make coming to Europe a lot easier.
Do you speak Spanish? There are courses to build your own guitar in Spain, which if you don't speak Spanish I myself would go for a course with Stephen Hill.
Also closer to you, there's Jeffrey Yong who is very highly regarded in the acoustic guitar side of things who's based in Malaysia. Personally, that would be my pick as Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur in particular is a wonderful place to be based for travelling. Cheap Air Asia tickets from KL to lots of very interesting places in Asia. http://www.jeffreyyong.com/
Do some travelling, see the world before you have responsibilities, debt and a family.
Also Paul Bowles was a very good writer, but his wife Jane Bowles is very special indeed!
Also Paul Bowles was a very good writer, but his wife Jane Bowles is very special indeed!
I bogged down on Two Serious Ladies early on as I found her writing mannered? maybe. Based on your enthusiasm I shall try again. It must have been a strange household in Tangier with Jane and her Arab present live in lover. Bowles maintained she poisoned Jane and tried to kill him. I don't know how things are in Morocco now but as Bowles described the place, magic and superstitions had a tight hold on the population. The spiders House is in pre-production for a film and I hope they get it right as I liked it the best.
Personally, that would be my pick as Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur in particular is a wonderful place to be based for travelling.
Wholeheartedly agree! Malaysia is a wonderful place in and of itself, not just as a base for traveling. I lived in Kuala Lumpur for four years and loved the whole country. It is a microcosm of Asia, with Malays, Chinese, and Indians. And in my opinion, Malaysia and Singapore have the finest cuisine in the world, as it consists of the above ethnic dishes, plus each has influenced the others to a degree. Not to mention Nonya (Straits Chinese) cuisine, which stands apart on its own.
Cheers,
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East."
Without any hint of our young correspondents heritage it leaves one somewhat in the dark as to advice. Certainly proximity to Asia and the much touted re-emergency of Asia as a center of commerce should suggest that as the best avenue to an exploration of a wider world. But still...if his roots are mired in the mud of Europe (encompassing the British Isles as the most likely progenitor) I maintain that his further education must surely encompass a exploration of the birthplace of western civilization. Whether he has prepared himself for such a journey is unknown but he will be wasting his time and resources if he has not familiarized himself with a least a overview of western civilization by which I mean principally that of the arts as that is what is most manifest in the physical world. .
I maintain that his further education must surely encompass a exploration of the birthplace of western civilization.
Actually, I still stick with my original advice, that this young man should think through what it is he wants to accomplish and plan his travels and endeavors accordingly.
My comment regarding Malaysia was based on my own experience, and not necessarily as advice that he should travel there. A good share of my professional career has been spent in Maritime Southeast Asia: Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Brunei. I was captured by the history, culture, politics, and languages when I was first assigned to the area, and it has been like draining a golden chalice of a magic potion since.
Nevertheless, Aeolus, I think that anyone born and brought up in Western culture definitely should study and become aware of Western Civilization in all its manifestations: History, politics, art, music, etc. Ancient Greece and Rome bequeathed us a magnificent legacy of rational philosophical inquiry, laws, governance, and art. It has come down to us through the ages, and it is something to be cherished.
Cheers,
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East."
option 3: go to 2 year college/ trades school and then get a job option 4: get bachelors degree in MUSIC or something you like and then get a job option 5: improvise it all
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