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Q&A: Why Should Beginners and Intermediate Musicians Play Scales and Other Technical Exercises? (Good Question)

Because you're not in an environment where you are playing and keeping your hands in shape.

If you can blow over Cherokee at 300 BPM then you probably don't have to play technical exercises if you don't want to. You can just blow over tunes and work out your hands.

But for a lot of players new to the instrument you can't do that, so then it's important to play scales and other technical exercises and to work up speed.

Not much more to say about that. IMHO :)

Behn Gillece debut album, "Mindset," to be released May 15th.

Hi everyone,

My debut album as leader, "Mindset", is coming out May 15th. I'm really excited about the recording. The album consists of my originals that I've been playing on gigs for awhile now. If you're interested, check out the title track here. I also have other samples on my website, www.behngillecejazz.com You can also buy an advance copy from there if you'd like!

I'll be posting some info on my CD release gigs soon as well. Thanks!

Behn