Guitar is a very popular instrument especially with the school and college students, this is a western instrument and is used throughout the world, great musicians throughout the world have used this instrument, and a singer can also sing as well as strum this instrument according to his tune. An international singer like Joan Baaz made her debut with music only on a guitar likewise John Denver and many international singers. Guitar is also very popular in Kolkata. It is mostly used as an accompanying instrument for Bollywood songs, Rabindra sangeet and other forms of Indian music too. Guitars are also used in bands both western and Indian. College students are crazy about guitar and many a times they use it to compose their own songs. With every passing year, there is a rising interest for guitar classes in Kolkata. Many music schools and private music teachers offer guitar lessons for different genres of music. The most popular are Bollywood and rock music. There are a few music schools like Academy for Musical Excellence, which offers, graded music lessons. Students may start guitar lessons from the age of six years. Candidates of any age may start guitar classes in Kolkata. It is advisable to start guitar lessons with acoustic guitar or nylon string classical guitar.
Guitar is often thought as an accompanying instrument. Guitar is also a solo and lead instrument. Being an international instrument, it use staff notation too. In Kolkata many schools and teachers do not follow the staff notations. This process of teaching is incorrect, lessons should follow using staff notation. Learning staff notation is essential because music is a language too. To become musically literate one should be able to read and write music notations. Some people think playing guitar is very easy, initial steps might be easy but to become an accomplished guitarist it requires many years of hard work, students are advised to have patience. Structured guitar lessons along with regular will enable a candidate to become a good guitarist. It is advisable to start at an early age preferably between the ages of six to eight years.
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