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Ben Bolt - The Most Awesome Classical Music Guitar Performer Ever!

Classical guitar player Ben Bolt was performing lead guitar in rock bands at the age of 12 and started performing professionally at age sixteen in Miami, Florida. Immediately after high school, Ben left his group to study traditional classical guitar compositions in Spain. At the age of 19 he studied traditional classical guitar with Andres Segovia in Madrid. Andr?s Segovia, the father of the traditional classical guitar, said "Ben Bolt is an outstanding guitar player with beautiful tone." Segovia personally purchased a scholarship so that Bolt could proceed with his studies at the Musica en Compostela, which Segovia founded. Later in Paris, Ben Bolt sought out and studied with Abel Carlevaro who continued to educate Bolt in Brazil at the International Guitar Conservatory. There under full scholarship, Bolt was introduced to a lot more Segovia teaching information and equally critical to the Carlevaro school of guitar playing technique. He also started compilling his first collection books of classical guitar tabs and classical guitar tablatures.

In the course of the next several years Ben Bolt went on to Montevideo, Uruguay, Carlevaro's home town, to finish his musical studies beneath the direction of Maestro Carlevaro and Guido Santorsola, the well known Italian composer and conductor. Carlevaro invited him to attend the 1974 International Guitar Seminary in Brazil under full scholarship. In that very same year Ben won the sought-after Merit Prize as Outstanding Student at the First International Masters Class in Montevideo. Bolt is credited with becoming an innovator in introducing 1000's of new individuals to the traditional classical style of guitar playing as a result of his DVD disks and books that use a revolutionary structure of learning. In the past, guitar students were made to learn to read traditional classical guitar music at the same time they were finding out how to play the traditional classical guitar which was difficult. Since the publication of Bolt's classical guitar book/CD packages, novices are able to play immediately. His guitar tablature system, which uses lines and numbers to show where the notes are on the fretboard, together with the CD recordings enable all students to play. Because of his vision of making traditional classical guitar available to all varieties of musicians, the traditional classical guitar is now being experienced by the masses.

Various Ben Bolt classical guitar publications have become best sellers and his "Anyone Can Play the Classical Guitar" DVD is a reference source for college guitar students as the authority on basic fundamentals regarding classical guitar technique. Ben presently resides in Knoxville, Tennessee where he teaches all styles of guitar. He is additionally Professor of Guitar at Carson-Newman College. He believes everyone can play the guitar provided they possess these three key elements: a decent instrument, an intelligent teacher, and music that holds the student's interest. Thankfully for aspiring traditional classical guitar players, Ben continues to release more instructional guitar tab books and DVDs each year presenting the songs of various composers like Bach, Mozart, Pagannini, Tarrega, Sor, and Carcassi.




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