Classical guitar lessons in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

A neighbourhood of young families

Hochelaga-Maisonneuve has filled with young families and artists over the past fifteen years, in plexes where people often live across two floors. That profile suits lessons at home: two children can follow each other within the same hour, and the parent never has to take the car out.

Starting early, but not too early

Classical guitar starts well around seven or eight, when the hand is big enough for a three-quarter size instrument and the child can hold attention for half an hour. Before that age, the thirty-minute format is the right one. Instrument size gets settled before the first lesson, and it is far better to ask than to buy at random.

What the first months cover

• ✓ Body and hand position, which decides almost everything that follows.
• ✓ A clean right-hand tone before any search for speed.
• ✓ Tuning the instrument independently, from the first weeks.
• ✓ A first piece played from beginning to end, not a pile of exercises.
• ✓ Music reading, introduced slowly but from the start.

Lessons in French

Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is a francophone area and lessons there are given in French. English and Czech remain available if that is the language of the household.