withinity -> RE: study in spain (really need suggestions) (Oct. 9 2017 14:20:29)
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For me essentially teachers can help you by showing you what your doing wrong, bad habbits or whatnot, but after that you still need to do the work yourself. If anything I recommend private lessons, the results I saw from these schools ( In particular carmen de las cuevas ) is really bad. What the crap is that man, you pay a bunch of money to take a class with a bunch of people on varying levels, in the end all you end up with is a some videos you have to take yourself , assuming you have a camera, then you take it home and practice yourself anyway! The good ones stick around and end up finding their own path and the other ones simply just came to Andalucia to do a course on Flamenco and left, some others got poached by a local Gypsy and paid in advance for a months worth of lessons which were never fully received lol. Granada is good though, I think there is alot more free flamenco over here than in Madrid perhaps? or more condensed into certain areas making it easier to find you. Eitherway there is alot of flamenco students here on different levels , learning in different ways and from different people and also real flamencos too, not just students, if your good enough you can jam with them. It's very hard though, hats off to anyone here who actually maintains compas and can accompany. What balls that must have taken. Another thing about granada is , if you can play an instrument decently you also have opportunity of making money from it either by playing on the street or better yet hitting up terraces. It's the way most musicians earn their tapa and bag of weed here. I think Granada is obviously a better choice than Madrid and a much more pleasant place to live. If you are around and have interest in Flamenco I guarantee your going to make friends here, how much you learn once again back to the origin of the post is up too you. At the same time becareful when your dealing with los gitanos please. Their is alot of ways you can get ****ed over in Spain, and its especially bad when it comes to theft. All this being considerd if you don't speak Spanish , it's going to be hard to be taken seriously unless you got some real compas going for ya.
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