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FRIEDRICH GULDA SCHOOL OF MUSIC
The Friedrich Gulda School of Music Vienna is a public-status conservatory which belongs to the JAM MUSIC LAB Private University for Jazz and Popular Music Vienna.
The conservatory offers diploma programmes in music and performing arts across all artistic and pedagogical disciplines: Classical, Musical & Music Theatre, Pop, Rock, and Jazz.
Form of study / degree: state-approved diploma studies
Duration: 8 semesters
Degree: artistic diploma or diploma in music education
Requirement for admission: passed entrance exam
Further information on the programme and the entrance examination for Classical Guitar can be found on the conservatory’s website.
ONLINE GUITAR COURSE
The advantage of live online lessons over the countless pre-recorded tutorial videos found everywhere today is obvious:
In a livestream session, you can ask questions directly and receive immediate feedback. Any uncertainty is cleared up on the spot - before mistakes take root and later require time-consuming correction.
Lessons can be flexibly tailored to your individual needs, allowing you to see your first results sooner.
No more frustration with overwhelming amounts of information and the often hard-to-judge quality of tutorials scattered across the internet.
In this sense, livestream teaching is an approach that consciously positions itself as a counter-model to the current trend of pre-recorded, off-the-shelf video courses, whose sometimes absurd promises of instant success are flooding the internet.
ONLINE MUSIC THEORY
No other courses are better suited for online learning than the two “Compact Music Theory” courses. Through screen sharing, the topics being discussed can be made immediately visible, while the internet allows quick access to a wide range of resources and fast file sharing.
The two progressive courses each consist of 8 sessions of 25 minutes each, with one session per week having proven to be the most efficient format.
Compact Music Theory I – Introduction to General Music Theory
In the beginner course, you will learn musical notation and the fundamentals of reading music, with no prior knowledge required. The 8 sessions of this course cover topics including notation, pitch, note and rest values, clefs, accidentals, and an introduction to the world of intervals.
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Compact Music Theory II – Expanding and Deepening the Foundations
This advanced course builds on the beginner level, covering: intervals, major and minor keys, the circle of fifths, triads, diatonic triads, and seventh chords.
Both online courses are delivered as one-on-one lessons. This allows for a flexible approach that can be tailored to your prior knowledge and individual learning pace, depending on your current level of expertise.
ONLINE MUSIC THEORY - GUITARISTS’ SPECIAL
This 8-unit course is especially suitable as a follow-up to the two "Compact Music Theory" foundation courses, as their content is essential for a thorough understanding.
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Discover the world of chord accompaniment in one-on-one lessons via livestream on an exciting journey through the following chapters:
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• Getting to know the fretboard (string names, note names and frets, tuning correctly)
• Chord diagrams and tablature (tabs)
• Rhythm notation (strumming patterns) and fingerpicking
• Scale diagrams
• Constructing chords and fretboard diagrams
• Chord nomenclature (chord symbols explained)