The training we offer covers classical, electric and acoustic guitar. It’s main points are:
- Technique exercises for developing hand musculature
- Content from different textbooks suited to each student’s goals and interests
- Structured theoretical information related to the textbook content
- Dialogue with the students aimed at discovering and improving upon their weak sides; if needed – making customised exercises tailored to each student
- Learning of styles of playing in accordance with the student’s interests
Our guitar lessons are appropriate for:
- Complete beginners
- Intermediate learners
- Amateurs
- People wishing to pursue a career in music (or intending to apply for music schools)
- Children at/over the age of 7
- Elderly people
...and everyone in between
The training you would get at “Flying fingers” could be of use for the enrichment of your musical culture regardless of your current level of knowledge. The level from which a student would start is irrelevant. The things that are relevant are:
- Desire to learn music
- Willingness for regular learning and practice
- Personal positive attitude towards music
In order for a beginner to be able to start playing, some basic skills have to be developed to a certain extent, among which:
- The ability to notice and follow a periodic pulsation
- Rough recognition and comparison of pitches (higher, lower, etc.)
- The ability to read simple music notation and/or tablature
- The ability to hold a guitar with correct posture
- Dexterity, strength and accuracy of finger movement
After acquiring this skillset, the student should be able to move on to learning a part of a piece or a simple melody. By advancing in the training we offer, they should be able to advance to:
- Playing rhythm sections in songs
- Arpeggiating chords and playing melodies
- Learning theoretical principles of melody construction
- Ear training for the purpose of following multiple musical phenomena at once
- Finding the structure of a musical piece
- Recognizing and playing musical ornamentation
- Learning a liked song
An intermediate student should be able to learn a simple song on their own or a complex song if directions are provided. An intuitive feeling about some musical phenomena and how the instrument should be handled could appear at this stage. Advancing further, the student would be able to:
- Compose simple instrumental pieces
- Improvise melodies outside of a musical piece’s context
- Acquire in-depth knowledge about phenomena like tonality, chord progressions, “foreign” tones and others
- Write down their own piece with musical notation
- Play along with other people in duets, trios and small bands
- Start learning the basics of a favored style
Continuing their training, already having a decent foundation of musical knowledge, a student would be able to start improving their expressiveness, setting forth on the path to mastery. What follows would include:
- Improvisation
- Composition
- Striving for virtuosity and precision in playing
- Learning the specifics of different styles
- Playing with bands, stage performances
- Participation in competitions
- Researching the techniques of various performers...
... And the satisfaction from reaching their personal goals.