Guitar and Tourism

Our program Guitar and Tourism is aimed to people no resident in Alcalá de Henares who want to take advantage of their vacations to attend our International Guitar Courses, and at the same time, meet the city which Historical Center declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1998, is one of the most beautiful and best preserved in Europe.

For those who are currently learning spanish, our International Guitar Courses mean an excellent opportunity to practice it in the uniquely student-oriented atmosphere of Alcalá de Henares in whose university was established the definitive grammatical structure of the Spanish language.

Alcalá de Henares has an enormous range of open air restaurants and tapas bars, boasts shops and boutiques selling a full range of products and excellent transport links to Madrid thanks to commuter trains that operate like a metropolitan fast and cheap service, with a constant flow of trains arriving and departing. The town has also urban and regional bus networks. Two bus stops are placed just at a few meters from our school.

International Guitar Courses

Our International Guitar Courses take place in the luxury hotel Parador de Alcalá de Henares one of the city's landmarks housed in a magnificent seventeenth-century building, the former Santo Tomás Dominican Convent and School, where we also provide students accomodation with full board included (breakfast, lunch and dinner). Courses are aimed to children from eight years old on, young people and adults, all knowledge level , conducted by master guitar teachers internationally renowned, and scheduled on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday - two hours per day.

Contents

Beginner and intermediate level - max. 5 students:

• Instrumental Technique.
• Pieces with or w/o music sheets for beginners - Pieces with Music sheets for intermediate level.

Advanced level - max. 2 students:

• Learning methodology to perform in public.
• Corporal preparing: relaxation-concentration.
• Technique applied to each musical composition requirements.
• Learn to study:
  • Differences and complements between study and guitar performance.
  • Comprehensive musical training: musical composition analysis, from mechanism to musical form point of view.
  • Memorization: learning by heart as guitar performance fundamental base.
  • Control of emotions.
• Expressive Guitar Performance achievement.
• Pieces for adavanced level.

At the end of the course a diploma stating the assistance is delivered to each student.

Price
Please ask for an estimate to info@escuelasuperiordeguitarra.es