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PORTUGUESE GUITAR LESSONS

The professor teaches private lessons in person and online system, with theorycal and practical classes in Portuguese Guitar, Fado Viola and Classical Guitar, adapted to the learning level of each student.

The student will develop theorycal, technical, practical and musical knowledge together, through the accompaniment provided by the teacher - whether in audio or video.

ABOUT THE LESSONS

- positioning and technique right hand and left hand;

- Music theory - Sheet music - identification of musical notes, rhythmic figures, Melodic and rhythmic reading, harmony (chord construction and progression), major and minor scales, Notion of tonality and respective Modes, Consonance and Dissonance - purposes of melodic tensions, Bases improvisation (voice countersongs);

- Reading sheet music - initial approach, how to make notes to facilitate reading, correspondence between reading and practicing the instrument, chord figures and what elements we can take from there.

MUSICAL PIECES

Small pieces and studies, developed by the teacher, with the aim of improving musical reading, instrument technique, notions of harmony (chord construction) and melodic phrasing within a harmonic structure.

TRADITIONAL FADO

- Knowledge of intro melodies and voice;

- Metrics in traditional fado - poems with quatrains, quintillas, sextillas, alexandrino;

- Listening and Analysis of several fado singers singing the same fado with different lyrics;

- Teacher records musical base - harmony, melody and reference voice - so that the student can study alone at home with musical accompaniment.

INSTRUMENTALS (GUITARRADAS)

- Concretization of the theorycal and practical bases in the study of the instrument;

- Analysis of harmonic progression, technical aspects for the execution of the instrumental;

- Listening to different guitarists and their different approaches;

- Identification of reference guitarists - Armandinho, Jaime Santos, Francisco Carvalhinho, José Nunes, Raúl Nery, Fontes Rocha,….

EAR TRAINING

- Development of knowledge that allows the student to recognize and identify harmonic progressions:

- The Key of a song - how to identify it;

- Dynamics that occur during a musical theme.

Portuguese Guitar Lessons

Guitar Lessons

Theoric and practical classical and Portuguese guitar lessons, adapted to the learning level of each student.

Contactos

Bruno Fonseca
Av. Alexandre Salles, 11 - 2ºDir
2720-010 Amadora
Portugal

+351 96 370 40 68
bruno.fonseca(at)sapo.pt