Still in São João da Boa Vista, Seu Jorge and his children met the amateur classical guitarist José Lansac — who had studied with great names such as Agustín Barrios and Isaías Sávio. Already elderly, Lansac nominated a former student, José Lopes, to teach the boys. With him, Sérgio and Odair learned to read sheet music and began to explore a repertoire that it was no longer limited to cries learned by ear. In about three months, however, they had already exceeded the limits of what their teacher could transmit to them; From then on, they continued studying alone, delving deeper on their own. in increasingly complex works.
Parallel to these studies, Sérgio, who from an early age was fascinated by the paths of harmony, also began to explore his own harmonic sounds, beginning a process that, years later, would lead him to create arrangements and compositions for the duo with his brother — and beyond.
Odair, in turn, before he even turned nine and with the guitar still barely fitting on his lap, was already performing techniques with a precision that impressed any experienced musician, as can be heard in this homemade recording, while practicing "Fantasia Original", by José Viñas. (Listen to the audio below)
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Odair's soil. Music: "Fantasia Original", by José Viñas.
