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guitarristamadrid -> RE: Cristina Heeren - intensive guitar in July (Apr. 13 2010 9:41:55)
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Maybe this will be useful to you. Here's what it was like for me studying with El Entri in Madrid:
-Initially we had class 3 times a week, two hours on monday, wednesday and friday. Recently they upped that to two hours a day, six days a week
-Almost every class there was a singer or dancer brought in for us to work with, of a high level, except when Entri went through some poorer periods when he couldn't afford to pay them, and then sometimes his gitano friends would just come in and jam with us
-They had juergas pretty often, not even for the benefit of the students as much as the fact that Entri and his crew just really like to have juergas
-The students are more like Entri's family than students. It's like everyone is a big crew. I hung out with Entri for many hours just doing random ****, eating at his house, went to his church, drove around Madrid, etc. Teaching flamenco is that dude's life, he has never done anything else
-For most of the time I was with Entri, I was the only foreigner in the room, or maybe there would be one british or japanese guy who was passing through. Most of the students were gitanos, followed by spaniards
-The classes had all levels, from little gitano kids who could barely hold the guitar, to guys like Jonny Jimenez who can play anything. Entri has a way of teaching everyone at once that you kind of have to see to understand
Entri was always extremely friendly to me, as were most of the other people.
Entri will be hard on you though, and he expects you to be studying what he gives you outside of the classes.
The purpose of his school is basically to take people at various levels and turn them into professional players who could work at Tablaos around Madrid. Also for him, teaching is a very personal, almost religous mission
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