One good opportunity to develop the skills of playing the guitar is learning the guitar from textbook. However there are many textbooks (in Estonian a dozen, but hundreds in English and Russian), and a lot of them are available our stores already. How to choose the right textbook and how many should one person have? [...]
Read more →A German study looked at professional violinists and found out that before the age of 21, they had all practised an instrument for 10 000 hours. Given that the violin playing started at the age of 6 mostly, it makes an average of 666 hours a year. In round figures we can say that these [...]
Read more →Last Friday we celebrated the 3rd birthday of the Guitar School project - 5000 students, 5 books+CD-s, some audio CD-s, more than 500 people who graduated from our live courses, numerous free e-courses. It’s been busy time and worth celebrating.The party was in Art Cafe, Tallinn and there was a total 4 hour live show [...]
Read more →As promised before – let’s dig a little deeper into the subject of practicing and this time I’ll express my thoughts about developing guitarists’ playing technique as this is a very important factor in successful guitar playing. Sometimes people say that one or another guitarist (or other instrumentalist or a singer or an athlet) has [...]
Read more →Today we had one of the first sunny days this year and couldn’t resist going out in the morning to play some sunny music for the birds:
Read more →There are always pros and contras regarding the music competitions but this year we’ll give a chance to the guitar students from Scandinavia, Baltics and Eastern Europe. Spread the word! Julia, the chief of the contest: “We are happy to announce that Estonian Guitar Society is organizing the International Youth Guitar Competition “Tallinn 2010” from [...]
Read more →Even nowadays I can see people coming to guitar lessons with the old soviet guitars that were made in a furniture factory. Some of the instruments even stay in tune for a while and let’s be honest – there was a time when this model was the only choice for a beginner. I also started [...]
Read more →At music schools it is quite common to ask from friends: “Well, how much do you practice these days?” The answer is a number of hours from 0-8 and some crazy guys clame to practice more. But it is very rare that somebody asks you: “How do you practice?” And if you would have to [...]
Read more →At the Helsinki Music Fair (22.-25. Oct 2009) Kitarrikool Publishing presented a unique set, consisting of a guitar textbook and web school, entitled “Guitar School the Key to the Practical Guitar Playing”. This is the first time in which the price of a textbook also includes personal feedback via the Internet. The methodology of the [...]
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