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Hi Everyone, I got a Camps m-7-s in the end after playing alot of different guitars on your great advice. I love how it sounds compared to my lame old classical guitar!
Anyway, skype lessons next - any recommended Skype tutors? I have completed Graf Martinez' first book, but have no real skill or brain in my playing, just the technical bits.
I know Ruben diaz' name is mud here, but he certainly seems prolific on youtube and talks a lot of sense, atleast through my beginners ears, - a good person to get lessons from?
Ruben Diaz knows how to talk bulls#it, too. I think Ricardo, very active on this forum, provides skype lessons. He is very skilled. Just shoot him a line.
Thanks for that, I've contacted him. I really want a real program for development with good materials to work with in my own time. Maybe a face-to-face tutor is a better idea.
Couple of thoughts. Skype has some drawbacks that face to face lessons do not have, but on the other hand Ricardo Skype lessons are recorded and sent to you. But you probably already know that. The quality of the recordings are excellent. With a memory like mine, good but short, recordings are a must. As for a program, just tell Ricardo what you want. He will be able to help you. And just for a little bit of a balanced view, a friend of mine has taken face to face and Skype lessons from "the one whose name we can not mention" for several years and appreciates him as a teacher, a person and a friend. But I don't hold it against him. He has a completely different approach to teaching than Ricardo and Ruben doesn't send you a video but it works for my friend.
Its better to find a teacher locally. It can be hard, I live in a big city and could find only two. Lots of classical guitar teachers but not many flamenco. I was lucky, my teacher is excellent and I have progressed a lot in 6 months.
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