Elijah Bogdanov
About
Every student is a challenge for me. If it's a good student who has the desire and time to practice along with talent, it challenges me to switch on all the power of his nature and make him shine the shortest way possible. If a student doesn't have time to practice I always work on new exercises that could make a difference right away during a lesson. If a student doesn't have the desire to practice (which is casual with kids) I always work on new tricks to grow the interest inside his mind or heart, depends on the situation.
I graduated from the conservatory of Nizhniy Novgorod in Russia as a folk string instrumentalist. At the child school, I studied folk instruments, guitar, and piano. Back then I composed my first music pieces at my 14 and get the first award at the composer's competition. In that time I was able to catch up a melody and chords. Now I have 20 years of practice and concerts as a guitar-player, folk-instrumentalist, improvisation-pianist, a song-author. As I studied all vectors of music at the conservatory, I have a main vision of music. Where it starts and in what direction it flies. Now I play in a folk-rock band The Pearl.
Due to the miscellaneous list of specialties I choose the video with my performance as a conductor. This is The Cello Concert by Myaskovskiy in my orchestration for the Russian Folk Orchestra.
Also, I run the solo-project named "SIBIRIAK" which performs rock-covers and electronic music.
Teaching Style
What about theory? We can learn not only a pure theory, but we'll be able to understand why music theory constructed in its particular way. And also we will cover the history of music and will see when and where theory constructed and changed.
What about improvisation? We can learn not only melodic patterns (at that point we can stop, of course, if you want to), but also tonality, rhythms of styles, the modes, the styles, and will do some exercises for improvisation sense.
What about the songwriting? Most songs have a lot of common parts. We will learn what different between them. You will write not only one song, but you will be able to write a song, and maybe we will extract something in your soul, and you will be able to use it!
What about the guitar? We can learn not only tabs and chords (at that point we can stop, of course, if you want to), but also tonality, rhythms of styles. This will help you be able to catch up with any song you may listen to for the first time.
Every student is a challenge for me. If it's a good student who has the desire and time to practice along with talent, it challenges me to switch on all the power of his nature and make him shine the shortest way possible. If a student doesn't have time to practice I always work on new exercises that could make a difference right away during a lesson. If a student doesn't have the desire to practice (which is casual with kids) I always work on new tricks to grow the interest inside his mind or heart, depends on the situation.
Curriculum
Each of my specialty has a different level of music knowledge and each one due to the different ages and goals.
Guitar
Acoustic
Bass Basic, Main Technique, Timing, Right ensemble thinking, improvisation, composition.
Classical Age to 13, Methods to learn the music, Rhythm, Notes, Basic technique, expressions.
Rock Different styles, Basic, Main Technique, Timing, Right ensemble thinking, Rhythms, Chords, Theory, Improvisation, Composition,
Lead Different styles, Basic, Main Technique, Timing, Right ensemble thinking, Rhythms, Chords, Theory, Improvisation, Composition,
Piano
Classical Age to 13, Methods to learn the music, Rhythm, Notes, Basic technique, expressions.
Rock Different styles, Basic, Main Technique, Timing, Right ensemble thinking, Rhythms, Chords, Theory, Improvisation, Composition,
Pop Different styles, Basic, Main Technique, Timing, Right ensemble thinking, Rhythms, Chords, Theory, Improvisation, Composition,
Composition Different styles, Basic, Theory, Methods, Patterns.
New age Basic, Theory, Methods, Patterns.
Music basic
Theory History of music, The main Harmony theories, The Melody concepts, Scales, Different styles.
Composition Different styles, Basic, Theory, Methods, Patterns, We will write your first piece!
Classical composition Different styles, Basic, Theory, Methods, Patterns, We will write your first piece!
Improvisation Different styles, Basic, Theory, Methods, Patterns, We will improvise together!
Orchestration Different styles, Basic, Theory, Methods, Patterns, We will write your first piece!
Songwriting Different styles, Basic, Theory, Methods, Patterns, We will write your first piece!
Credentials & Affiliations
I graduated from The Musical Colledge of Nijniy Novgorod in 2008. (Started in 2005) Then I graduated from the Conservatory Of Nijniy Novgorod in 2013. (Started in 2008) Besides my concert practice, I worked as a children's teacher in Russia for 6 years. Also, I worked as a piano teacher with the Chinese online platform peilian.com using the English Language.
