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GUITAR LESSONS / Geneva for beginners and advanced
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From 124.73 $ /h
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Guitar lessons by a qualified teacher - 20 years of experience - progression at the student's pace - music theory and harmony (optional) - rhythm - improvisation - classical repertoire - jazz - blues - bossa nova - South American music - pop - folk - etc

to LAUSANNE and GENEVA - beginners and advanced.


Winner of the first prize of composition during the festival "xx jazz in France" awarded by SACEM

Program

• Development of the musical ear.
• Basics of guitar technique / picking technique, butte, rasgueado, thumb technique - blocks.

• Melodic markers on the instrument
• Initiation to read tablatures and / or scores
• rhythmic work

• Basis of solfège and harmony
• Study of ranges and chords (major scales, minor natural,
harmonic minor, pentatonic / triads, 7th chords and cadences
corresponding)

DIRECTORY

• Classic parts
• Jazz and improvisation standards
• Blues
• Bossa Nova
• South American music
• World music
• Folk & pop
• Songs and accompaniment
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  • Rue des Sources, 1205 Genève, Suisse
About Me
Rodrigo was born in Argentina. He grew up in Chile where he began to play the guitar as a teenager with street musicians and began to compose very early.

There followed studies at the Conservatory of the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile, where he discovered the essentials of classical guitar and began to give concerts for his high school. At the same time, he took Flamenco guitar lessons with guitarist Silvia Marambio.

Arrived in Switzerland at the age of 19, he studied in the class of Haim Shazar for two years, then he continued his studies of classical guitar at the conservatories of Lausanne and Fribourg, as well as jazz guitar and Jazz Harmony at the EJMA of Lausanne. .

He won a first prize for composition at the “XX Jazz in France” festival in 2000.

Since then he has played and plays in different formations, practicing various styles ranging from pop to classical music, including jazz, blues, bossa nova and music from Cape Verde.

He divides his time between teaching and his concerts.
Education
Classical Guitar Conservatory of the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile.
Classical Guitar and Orchestration at the Lausanne Conservatory
classical guitar at the Friborg Conservatory
jazz guitar and jazz harmony at the EJMA in Lausanne
Experience / Qualifications
Classical Guitar Conservatory of the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile.
Classical Guitar and Orchestration at the Lausanne Conservatory
classical guitar at the Friborg Conservatory
jazz guitar and jazz harmony at the EJMA in Lausanne
Age
Children (7-12 years old)
Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Seniors (65+ years old)
Student level
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Duration
60 minutes
The class is taught in
French
Spanish
Portuguese
English
Skills
Acoustic
Blues
Song & varieties
Folk
Indie & alternative
Jazz
Pop
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Guitar lessons by a qualified teacher - 20 years of experience - progression at the student's pace - music theory and harmony (optional) - rhythm - improvisation - classical repertoire - jazz - blues - bossa nova - South American music - pop - folk - etc

to LAUSANNE and GENEVA - beginners and advanced.

Winner of the first prize of composition during the festival "xx jazz in France" awarded by SACEM

Program

• Development of the musical ear.
• Basics of guitar technique / picking technique, butte, rasgueado, thumb technique - blocks.

• Melodic markers on the instrument
• Initiation to read tablatures and / or scores
• rhythmic work

• Basis of solfège and harmony
• Study of ranges and chords (major scales, minor natural,
harmonic minor, pentatonic / triads, 7th chords and cadences
corresponding)

DIRECTORY

• Classic parts
• Jazz and improvisation standards
• Blues
• Bossa Nova
• South American music
• World music
• Folk & pop
• Songs and accompaniment
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