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I will say that the standard thing for me is that for beginners they need short lessons, very often, in the beginning. Like after a week I need to see you again to see what you are doing so we can correct it.

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I will say that the standard thing for me is that for beginners they need short lessons, very often, in the beginning. Like after a week I need to see you again to see what you are doing so we can correct it. As one advances, I can eventually give longer lessons, but much less frequently. Like my intermediate students I see them ONCE a year. And the advanced guys? Once every half decade.

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I will say that the standard thing for me is that for beginners they need short lessons, very often, in the beginning. Like after a week I need to see you again to see what you are doing so we can correct it. As one advances, I can eventually give longer lessons, but much less frequently. Like my intermediate students I see them ONCE a year. And the advanced guys? Once every half decade.

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ORIGINAL: Stu
"I'll teach you so that you can teach yourself and you won't need me".

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ORIGINAL: devilhand

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I will say that the standard thing for me is that for beginners they need short lessons, very often, in the beginning. Like after a week I need to see you again to see what you are doing so we can correct it. As one advances, I can eventually give longer lessons, but much less frequently. Like my intermediate students I see them ONCE a year. And the advanced guys? Once every half decade.

Curious to know the profile of your students. Why they (beginner, intermediate and advanced) learn flamenco guitar. What they want to achieve by learning flamenco guitar.

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Two extreme cases. I once had the 80 + year old guy that just enjoyed getting some tabs in his personal notebook. I did not force him to play with a metronome, in fact he complained about his previous teacher acting like a “drill instructor” military style, and not what he was after. He wanted to relax and an enjoy the last years here with his guitar. He took weekly lessons, perhaps every two weeks or so I can’t remember now, but he loved it, but said his wife complained about him practicing (she was Spanish ). Well, after he visited a Féria where I was performing with many dance groups, someone saw him carrying his guitar and invited him to their dance class (I never learned who) after he said he was MY student for the last year. He was happy to do so, without talking to me first. But he came back to his next lesson and complained that the dancers and their “guitarist” (whoever he was, and I never figured it out who), told him he sucked and was out of compas and put his guitar away.

Understand this old man could barely move between two chords fast enough to keep a tight rhythm, he mostly liked to stumble through his tablature of pulgar melodies and such….freestyle. Well in our last lesson he demanded I teach him compas, so I showed him how to move the chords with a slow click metronome….and of course the slowest setting was too fast for him to get from one chord to the next and his face turned to horrible sadness….he realized that playing guitar was infact like the drill instructor whoever once tried to force on him, and that he had been deluding himself by letting me teach him in a relaxed way. He quit playing, and it broke my heart. Honestly I wish I knew who those people were, who had no respect for their elders to put the guy down the way they did. I know that whoever they were in my town here, they were novice artists.

2nd example sad for a different reason. This guy in Ethiopia was quite advanced enough, an excellent level intermediate student. We did Skype of course, and it was always a bad connection and he would have to do things like go to a fancy hotel to get decent wi-fi. Even though this guy had a good job and money, he struggle to purchase ANYTHING on line due to laws in his country. He had to pay his friend in Saudi Arabia to buy a nice guitar for him with his money being wired. Previous he was stuck with low end Yamaha and such. Same deal to pay me for lessons, he had to wire the money from his friend…it was so embarrassing for him. I felt like just giving him a lot of free time. Finally he decided to attend Gerardo Nuñez Curso. Gerardo even wrote him a recommendation request to take the class for the embassy…but in the end the Embassy would not allow this guy a visa to go. I just told the guy he really needed to get out of there permanently.