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Instrument: Acoustic Guitar

The legendry instrument made famous by Rock and Pop artist for its versatility and universal appeal.

All Sessions

English / Hindi

4 Students Per Batch

Description

The guitar is an ancient instrument, whose history can be traced back over 4000 years. Many theories have been advanced about the instrument’s ancestry, but the modern acoustic guitar comes from a long progression of stringed musical instruments. It has often been claimed that the guitar is a development of the medieval instrument vihuela, which evolved from the ancient lute.

There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar, the classical guitar (Spanish guitar/nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar, which is sometimes called a “jazz guitar”. The tone of an acoustic guitar is produced by the strings’ vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar, which acts as a resonating chamber. The classical guitar is often played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive finger-picking technique where each string is plucked individually by the player’s fingers, as opposed to being strummed. The term “finger-picking” can also refer to a specific tradition of folk, blues, bluegrass, and country guitar playing in the United States.

About The Instructor

Akhil Sindhwani, a composer and an educator, is one of those musicians who picked up music at a late age of 18 and have been at it since then. Inspired by western classical guitar he learned the techniques and sight reading under Tony John and mastered it further under the guidance of Shankar Sir. He further went to explore more on the western classical world in Europe and met some great players like Raphealla Smits, Roland Broux, Aram van Ballaert, Boris Gaquere, Antigoni Goni and even the Grammy award winner Andrew York.

He is a performer of Bass guitar for Artists like Ekam Satt (Ameya Dabli), Tapas, HarmoNonium, Ravi Chary, Chintoo Singh Wasir, Ramil Ganjoo, and many more. Moreover, he has a fair amount of practice as a music producer and a recording artist. This further enhances his techniques as an educator and teach about music in its complete sense.

What is my level of proficiency

The batches at Ekam Satt Academy are divided as per the proficiency of each student. For your own assessment, you can go through following guidelines: