Peace , wsup bro I’ve really been getting into Argentinian rock recently spinetta, Garcia, sui generis type stuff. I’ve really been considering moving to Argentina just to study guitar and music . Any suggestions? Would love to have a conversation and get your thoughts
Hi my friend! I am glad you are liking the rock music from my country. This will be a bit long: Unfortunately there is no institute where you will learn rock music formally and get a degree on that. I myself went to the EMPA which is one of the few institutes where you can learn popular music, because the only other thing would be to go to the university and learn classical music. There are a few that have a popular music curriculum, but that means little rock. For example, at the EMPA, where you study popular music, you have 3 different genres where you can specialize: Tango, Jazz and Folklore, (which is the traditional music from the countryside of Argentina). Also music teaching (which is what i did, since there was not a teaching degree on instrument at the moment, there is now but the possibilities of working as a guitar teacher at an institute is rather small). If you want to learn rock music, you have to either do it by yourself, or take some lessons with a teacher that knows about the subject (like me). I did the first thing, but ended up dedicating the last 20 years to teaching guitar since I´m not fond of teaching at schools. I can pick up any song by now with all that I´ve been taught, and I know a lot of that repertoire, so I could teach you that without you coming all the way to this country. Unless you are interested in playing Tango or Argentinian folklore (you can learn jazz everywhere) I would not advocate to pursue music studies in this country, These degrees take years to archieve as any other and they don´t allow you to work worldwide. Unless you come to a university, you won´t leave with a PhD. The degree you receive from the EMPA is below that level of validation (here you have primary school (elementary), secondary school (highschool) terciary studies (EMPA, and the majority of teaching degrees, take same time as university but the title has less value) and university level (where you can get the PhDs, masters, doctorate). I did It was long but hopefully I answered a few of your questions. You can also check my other channel in spanish, where I have 3 videos on Charly Garcia songs (Actually on his band Seru Giran, which came after Sui Generis). If you want to have a conversation with me you can send me a message at facundo.cuevas@hotmail.com Kind regards, Facundo.
Peace , wsup bro I’ve really been getting into Argentinian rock recently spinetta, Garcia, sui generis type stuff. I’ve really been considering moving to Argentina just to study guitar and music . Any suggestions? Would love to have a conversation and get your thoughts
Hi my friend! I am glad you are liking the rock music from my country. This will be a bit long: Unfortunately there is no institute where you will learn rock music formally and get a degree on that. I myself went to the EMPA which is one of the few institutes where you can learn popular music, because the only other thing would be to go to the university and learn classical music. There are a few that have a popular music curriculum, but that means little rock. For example, at the EMPA, where you study popular music, you have 3 different genres where you can specialize: Tango, Jazz and Folklore, (which is the traditional music from the countryside of Argentina). Also music teaching (which is what i did, since there was not a teaching degree on instrument at the moment, there is now but the possibilities of working as a guitar teacher at an institute is rather small). If you want to learn rock music, you have to either do it by yourself, or take some lessons with a teacher that knows about the subject (like me). I did the first thing, but ended up dedicating the last 20 years to teaching guitar since I´m not fond of teaching at schools. I can pick up any song by now with all that I´ve been taught, and I know a lot of that repertoire, so I could teach you that without you coming all the way to this country. Unless you are interested in playing Tango or Argentinian folklore (you can learn jazz everywhere) I would not advocate to pursue music studies in this country, These degrees take years to archieve as any other and they don´t allow you to work worldwide. Unless you come to a university, you won´t leave with a PhD. The degree you receive from the EMPA is below that level of validation (here you have primary school (elementary), secondary school (highschool) terciary studies (EMPA, and the majority of teaching degrees, take same time as university but the title has less value) and university level (where you can get the PhDs, masters, doctorate). I did It was long but hopefully I answered a few of your questions. You can also check my other channel in spanish, where I have 3 videos on Charly Garcia songs (Actually on his band Seru Giran, which came after Sui Generis). If you want to have a conversation with me you can send me a message at facundo.cuevas@hotmail.com
Kind regards,
Facundo.