Today we have started a new series specially designed for children. I hope it will have at least the same succes that TYGOTC series, wicch have been followed by thousands of people from elsewhere in the world.
If you teach guitar to children, you know how much important is to make they feel comfortable with classical music, and the influence that it can have in their lives.
I hope that these sessions will be useful for you, and if you likes, tell me!
Altough two years ago I tell you That WAS Classical guitar in a complete decadence, now I’m not so sure. My new job has restored my hope. I found here, in this small town, a real “gold mine” of young, teenager people, excited about the guitar, eager to learn and that, to my surprise, live it as intensely as I lived. Second year has started and i’m still amazed
In class, each of them surprised me for different reasons. Gabriel (15) did little know about music theory, but in one year, with a lot of dedication, was able to read the “Simple Studies” by Leo Brouwer and what is even more surprising, touching them with great musicality. Diego (14) insists on knowing my old instruments, it is very curious to know how they sounded the ancestors of the guitar, something really unusual.
Carmen (12) is really passionate about the guitar and very persevering, and as a result, she plays lovely performances that amaze the public. Silvia (14), despite the crisis, has achieved a new brand, beautiful Alhambra guitar, and what is more difficult, has learned to play, almost alone, Tarrega’s “Lagrima” during the summer. Pablo (14) has learned music theory in a record time, and he is not discouraged front of the “Romance Anónimo” difficult barres, and want to play it at Christmas concert.
Adults also amaze me. Mayte, who works around the clock, is finally PLAYING GUITAR!. Even Manuel, sure not a teenager, has unusual physical and musical conditions. Jokingly, I always say that it’s impossible that he had started last year. He plays pieces as Sor’s “Study in B minor”, “Romance Anónimo”, Aguado’s “Estudio de arpeggios” and Others. The only problem is his shyness, that prevents he to play in public. Finally, I wish you could see the exceptional physical conditions that for guitar has Jenny (17). Just looks her hands position and the sound she produces!.
All these are reasons enough to go to work with joy, and to think that the guitar, at least here in Corvera, shall not die out in the next generation!
In the middle of the city, the Music School is a testimony of rural past, with these beatiful “hórreos”, traditional asturian buildings.
