Posts under ‘Guitar general’

These days in Shanghai is the music fair. A lot of guitar companies from the whole world are here to sell their guitars and other music instruments.
But instead of going to the music fair, I want to introduce Antonio Lauro to you:
Antonio Lauro was born on the 3th of August 1917 in Ciudad [...]

Because of some unexspected problems i have to delay my flight back to Shanghai and will arrive some days later. I am very sorry for all of you who are waiting for me! Probably we can start with the classes after the 24th of September.
As i didn’t bring my computer to Germany there is only [...]

As I was a student my guitar teacher always forced me to play every piece by heart. If I didn`t memorize a piece, I was not allowed to learn a new one till I could play the old one by heart and without any mistakes. I continued to do so my whole lifetime.
But working [...]

To play the guitar is more than practice an instrument. To play the guitar means to express the life. To show your “life – feeling” what means to make poesie. But in my eyes that doesn`t mean that you  completely need to play “ad libitum”.
I ve uploaded two different pieces. One is from the [...]

Practicing with my students sometimes lets me be a little disapointed. What often happens: the younger children are learning with high motivation and big progress, but some years later if they starting with puberty, they lose their love to classical guitar and most pitty: they lose their phantasy.
May be it`s because they become too [...]

If my students need a guitar, i am always going to Jingling Road 318. There is one of Jiang Da Mins Guitar Shops. He is the owner of around six shops in Shanghai, the shop in the Jingling Road is one of them. There you can find all kinds of guitars and most important for [...]

Because Guitar Shanghai wants to grow and to invite some good international guitar players to make concerts and master classes in Shanghai, we are looking for companies and people, who wants to support that projects.
Guitar Shanghai is going to become an association for people who love the classical guitar and want to improve the guitar [...]

The Christmas time is here and every guitar teacher know, that a lot of children every year wants to play their favorite Christmas Songs with the guitar.
To make this activity as successful as possible, I want to tell you some possibilities and reasons to play these songs with the kids.
First of all: even if you [...]

On October the 17th Tommy Emmanuel will come to Shanghai and will play in the Oriental Art Center (Dongfang Yishu Zhongxin). I already bought my tickets, because I like the performance of this great player .
Watch this Video!

To know how to practice the guitar is so important and there are a lot of different opinions and discussions about how to practice an instrument. I tried different ways, but I am still searching. Here I want to write down some suggestions for my students. 
If you want to learn a new piece, it is [...]