Mark2 -> RE: Flamenco Guitar Player Training Path (Sep. 16 2016 16:24:03)
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As was mentioned, does anyone think they can learn to play classical music well on the violin, viola, cello, etc from books and videos? Maybe they do, I don't visit forums that discuss those things, but it would seem to me to be a rather absurd expectation. Same with flamenco guitar I think. But, I am an old dude who learned face to face from a maestro, and later studied with a half dozen other flamenco guitarists, face to face. When I really put it together, to the extent I was able, was after a few years in a dance school, then a few more playing for local dance groups. I know it's a brave new world and I could now get privates via Skype with top players in Spain, and once in a while someone comes along who seemingly really has it together without going through all that uh, traditional old fashioned BS, but I think the best way is still the old way for most folks. I don't think it is a dis-service to point that out to people who want to know. Chester mentioned the cult thing, and I understand that not many want to go down that road, but I really believe that unless at some point you are ready to commit to a full immersion, wherever you might be and to what extent one is able, you aren't going to go very far. Frankly, if I had known at the beginning what was involved to reach the level I had hoped to attain, I might have left it alone. quote:
ORIGINAL: payaso Whenever anybody asks the foro about what books to look for as a help to learning flamenco guitar, the standard answer always seems to be something like ‘don’t buy books, they’re only for beginners, find a teacher, transcriptions are “wrong”, just learn from recordings without reading music or tab, go to Spain, it’ll take years of immersion in flamenco to get anywhere, just think how long it took Maestro Fulano’. Is this really the most helpful advice? And is this the way the members who post this stuff really learned everything? Or could there be an element of snobbery at work here? For the tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) who are keen to learn flamenco guitar, many will have neither the funds nor the ease of access to find a teacher. And how many good teachers are there outside Spain apart from in major urban centres? Why, if this antipathy to books is so prevalent, is there also so much discussion on the foro about transcriptions, tabs and how to get them? There are now several extremely helpful books on learning flamenco combined with CD’s and DVDs (just look on Amazon) which will meet the needs of many players very well – and for many years. If you can find and afford a good teacher in the flesh or online, you are unusually fortunate – and you may find that the teacher will recommend (as aids to learning material and techniques) the very books that some foro members seem to be so sniffy about.
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