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Lesson timetable (total of 12 hours)
21/2 and 22/2 16:00 - 20:00
23/2 10:00 - 14:00
21/2 and 22/2 16:00 - 20:00
23/2 10:00 - 14:00
In the seminar we will learn how folk and rebetiko "dromi" (makams) are built with four and five notes and how the harmonization happens, through the concept of musical intervals and more.
There will be an extensive reference to rhythms through musical games that strengthen rhythmic perception. Finally, we will deal with technical issues of the guitar such as recognition of the fretboard, triadic chords, fingering based on each makam.
Biography
Kostis Kostakis was born in 1986 and grew up in Athens. His first contact with the classical guitar was at the age of 8, when he began taking instrument and theory lessons at the conservatory for about five years. Later, during his middle and high school years, he took up the electric guitar and participated in various student groups. Rebetiko and Smyrnaean songs followed him from a very young age, since his father plays the accordion as an amateur. He has been professionally involved in music since the age of 18. From 2005 to 2011, he participated in the rebetiko group Hipsi, through which he thoroughly studied the first performances of rebetiko songs and the great guitarists of the genre. In 2011, he collaborated with the musical group Elektrobalkana. From 2012 and for 10 years, he participated in the musical group Rebetien, where he was a key member, playing guitar. For 10 years, Rebetien presented a repertoire of both Greek traditional music and rebetiko/Smyrnaean songs with appearances in and outside Greece. Today, they continue under the name Rebeti. Since 2015, he has participated in the guitar group Trio Katara and since 2019 in the group Sabi. Both groups are oriented towards their own compositions, marrying the gramophone sound with contemporary musical motifs. Finally, since 2017 he has been playing the Hawaiian guitar, an instrument that was once popular, but has been extinct in Greece for at least 50 years, and with which he participates in the White Birds tribute band, a group that pays tribute to the famous White Birds by Costas Bezos. In 2021, he began his collaboration with Fotis Siotas, where he participates in his musical group playing the Hawaiian guitar.
He has collaborated with Babis Goles, Agathon Iakovidis, Solon Lekkas, Haig Yazdjian, Dimitris Mitsotakis, Nikos Tatasopoulos, Dimitris Mystakidis, Fotis Siotas, Vasilis Skoutas, Dimitris Mitarakis, Marios Papadeas, Yiannis Niarchos, etc.
He has attended a fretless guitar seminar with Erkan Ogur in Houdetsi.
He has collaborated with Babis Goles, Agathon Iakovidis, Solon Lekkas, Haig Yazdjian, Dimitris Mitsotakis, Nikos Tatasopoulos, Dimitris Mystakidis, Fotis Siotas, Vasilis Skoutas, Dimitris Mitarakis, Marios Papadeas, Yiannis Niarchos, etc.
He has attended a fretless guitar seminar with Erkan Ogur in Houdetsi.