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Have You Met Miss Jones

"Have You Met Miss Jones" - At home today practicing with playing this great standard in various keys. Here's a clip (5 choruses) starting in F and then going up a minor 3rd for each chorus and eventually ending back in F. The bridge is a little tricky since it goes through 3 keys a major 3rd apart.

How to book bands?

For many years now, I've been working with a local arts organization, the Hopkinton Center for the Arts (https://hopartscenter.org/). For the past several years I've organized what we've called the Sunset Jazz Concert series -- 6 to 8 outdoor jazz concerts during the summers on Saturday nights.

Two years ago, through some herculean fund raising, the HCA managed to complete building a new performance/gallery/instruction facility. At this time I added a monthly jam session, now on the 2nd Friday night of each month.

What is the best way to learn scales?

Hi guys in this lesson I will show you an effective way to learn and master scales so that you can use them in context.
Hope you will like it.

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my new book: "AFORISMI - 11 etudes for solo vibraphone", published by Musikkforlagene is available on:
http://www.giovanniperin.com/books/

on my youtube channel you can listen to a lot of the etudes that I recorded.
For more info about the book don't esitate to contact me!

How to write a pop song in less than 3 minutes

Hi guys in this lesson I will show you an effective way to write a pop song.
Hope you will like it.

Remember to follow me on Fb, Istagram and Youtube!!
my new book: "AFORISMI - 11 etudes for solo vibraphone", published by Musikkforlagene is available on:
http://www.giovanniperin.com/books/

on my youtube channel you can listen to a lot of the etudes that I recorded.
For more info about the book don't esitate to contact me!

How do you teach experience? (Quick thoughts)

I'm thinking about teaching people and thinking about what I teach them and explaining things to them.

It hit me, that you can't teach experience and that's the thing that's most important of all. Experience is being on the gig, playing with others. Experience is making mistakes in front of people. Making bad decisions and good decisions.

That's the most difficult thing when I think about this. When I tell students to get out and play and they don't, but they say they want to be good players, I don't know what to do.

Monty Stark (Who knows about Monty Stark?)

John Keene sent me a recording of Monty Stark and John Abercrombie I posted it.

Here's an interview I found. I like this guy, didn't know anything about him. He seems cool, John Keene says he was.

Check out this interview of him:
https://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/12/egon-interviews-monty-stark-20…

I'm trying to find Monty Stark CDs.