Sep 8 2006
Newspaper – Ouest France
Gentle and effective method to learn guitar
Nestled in a small courtyard of the Paul Bellamy street, Michel Gracia guitar school, welcomes adults and children over 6 years.
Songwriter, offers special courses “tailored to each application”
“I teach the techniques of acoustic guitar: they are at the service of all music My method is gentle and effective, it takes into account the fun and provides immediate results.”
Michel Gracia insists on his teaching: “I’m listening to the students and adapt myself to the requests I have trained many teachers or facilitators for business purposes.”.
Accustomed to working with young children, it has already published two guitar methods praised by the specialist press. “Children can start very young instrument, just know how to teach them,” he says.
Apr 5 2008
Magazine – Guitare Classique
Finally a method really adapted to the guitar education for young children! For children 6 and 7 years old and their teachers, the two volumes of “Rhymes for initiation” Michel Gracia, attach, by appropriate pedagogy to meet the specific needs, too often overlooked by traditional methods of this age. In the first volume, the use of rhymes combined with a script that takes into account possible reading difficulties younger, allows a playful approach and smooth the instrument. These rhymes are associated with exercise-games (travel all the left hand on the handle, tapping on specific cases, muffled right hand …) to begin to master without apprehension the first footwork on the instrument. Music theory concepts are introduced very progressivcmcn1 then the first notes fretted, the focus remaining always on the movement training. The second volume contains the same practices but with a change in the rating and in the difficulty suitable for children already an older year. Two really excellent books that will meet no doubt the needs of many teachers, parents and young students.