Eugene
location: Maryland
listening to: Alexander Scriabin-The Solo Piano Works, Maria Lettberg
registered: 1999.08.12
posts: 3540
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Pierre is always great, and was great at that concert (it was one CD
back, forget the title). I haven't heard Altiplano yet. I trust you have Livre du Gitarre (The Guitar Book) his intro book.
He basically marches you through all the early tunes(and there are
some neat recipes in there as well), including Santa Monica (which
is a very busy tune...takes a lot of stick to-itive-ness to learn). He
has a second book along the same lines with his newer tunes, of
which I've only played a few. The only one I know really well is
March to Fingal (it's his easiest and one of the ones you have to
know to get into the master class). If you really want to get into it,
he offers seminars at a lot of the concert areas he plays and has a
special course at his home in France, where you eat, breathe and
sleep guitar for a week, with one on one instruction from him.
He's a great guy and very excellent teacher. He is a stickler for
technique, so if you don't work hard at it, or do things his way, he
will let you know in short order that you f'''d up. He does not
mince words. The classes can be a little intimidating, because
some of your "classmates" are major players in their own right. For
example, Pat Kirtley was in my class; at the time I had no idea who
he was, but when I heard him play, it was like "O Mi God...". But I
learned a lot from Pat as well, so it helps to be around other great
players. Get on the mail list and he lets you know when and where the
seminars are held as he does his annual American jaunt. Happy plucking.
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Eugene
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Pierre is always great, and was great at that concert (it was one CD
back, forget the title). I haven't heard Altiplano yet. I trust you have Livre du Gitarre (The Guitar Book) his intro book.
He basically marches you through all the early tunes(and there are
some neat recipes in there as well), including Santa Monica (which
is a very busy tune...takes a lot of stick to-itive-ness to learn). He
has a second book along the same lines with his newer tunes, of
which I've only played a few. The only one I know really well is
March to Fingal (it's his easiest and one of the ones you have to
know to get into the master class). If you really want to get into it,
he offers seminars at a lot of the concert areas he plays and has a
special course at his home in France, where you eat, breathe and
sleep guitar for a week, with one on one instruction from him.
He's a great guy and very excellent teacher. He is a stickler for
technique, so if you don't work hard at it, or do things his way, he
will let you know in short order that you f'''d up. He does not
mince words. The classes can be a little intimidating, because
some of your "classmates" are major players in their own right. For
example, Pat Kirtley was in my class; at the time I had no idea who
he was, but when I heard him play, it was like "O Mi God...". But I
learned a lot from Pat as well, so it helps to be around other great
players. Get on the mail list and he lets you know when and where the
seminars are held as he does his annual American jaunt. Happy plucking.
