Author Topic: Guitar salons (Read 2622 times)

LiamH · « **on:** September 29, 2006, 12:08:31 AM »

We have a generation of incredibly talented guitarists out there. Yet it seems to me they are not teaching the next generation of guitarists. Ok a few lessons in mag's here and there, plus a few plugs for their endorsees. But why is it that the gifted musicians of today are not creating salons and conservatories in order to pass on and preserve the craft. I am sure it is not about money.

jt · « **Reply #1 on:** September 29, 2006, 12:57:22 AM »

:D Unfortunatly you`re wrong. It is about money. It costs an absolute fortune to survive in this day & age & that doesn`t include things like having to provide a pension for yourself etc etc. If you were to teach class`s as it were you couldn`t get enough govenment finance etc to make it work. Remember you need a place to teach thats got to have facilitys that you & you pupils will require. Electricity, Gas, Water, Council Tax, Business tax, support staff [ i`m not going to clean the toilets out !! or cook you dinner or bring you coffee etc ] It means that you`ll need to charge so much money to your pupils that it`ll price a large number of them out of it. There are the odd exceptions The guitar acadamy in Wapping i cant remember of hand its name is one exception but there arn`t many & the one in Wapping tends to be used on a part time basis. There`s also the problem that there isn`t a lot of paying work out there for muscicians, so what are you training people for ?

:D 8)

LiamH · « **Reply #2 on:** September 29, 2006, 01:08:09 AM »

Don't get me wrong. This is not about the talented person who needs to earn a living. It is about the talent with huge bucks. What provoked my attention was the fact OLGA has gone offline under copyright threats.

For me, preserving the craft (and an audience with money to spend on the craft) depends on keeping people in touch with the instrument, one way is to encourage its spread by way of people sharing their skills and experience.

Kilby · « **Reply #3 on:** September 29, 2006, 01:11:21 AM »

I know Robert Fripp is involved in a lot of schools and guild type things.

Unfortunitely he thinks that everybody should use his New Standard Tuning :(

Rob...

Sifu Ben · « **Reply #4 on:** September 29, 2006, 01:02:19 PM »

A guitarist I met in Canada, decided about 20 years ago he was going to learn from Fripp, so he flew over here, pitched up, stayed at his house and learned from him :o How cool is that???