How people handle their musical material is always interesting to me. As you guys know I talk with lots of students about solo playing. I believe you should spend a lot of time (in your mind) walking on stage and playing a piece or two as if there is an audience. The best way I know of to simulate that is to record your performance. video is best. Then you have to look at yourself!

On facebook I asked for a list of solo cd favs. Here's the list I got:

Here's what I thought was a better take of Isfahan (Confirmation not so much!).

https://youtu.be/sqeKsHk3OLQ

I was talking to a student today. This student is nervous about getting out to play. This would be the students first jam session. The student is very talented and needs to get over this hump. If the student played about 5 or 6 jam sessions that would be it, they'd be fine and could get up to play with ease.

We have to play in public. This is really how we get better! And there's no excuse for not doing it. Learn tunes and get out there. People are cool and anyone who says anything negative to you is an A-hole, so don't worry about it :-).

Tony Miceli
Carolyn Stallard
Roger Gaumond

Post your mini concerts for Feb. 25th, 2017 below. Put the links in, I'll embed the videos.

I LOVE MINI concerts. They are for everyone to participate and it's a virtual way of coming together. I like this as much as doing a concert in a theatre. I'm pretty shy and introverted but this is such a cool community thing that I just love seeing everybody play.

So I recorded two versions of my mini concert for this weekend. The second one is where I botched
confirmation. So I took the first version where I played both versions with stopping and it was an ok performance.

Here is the good version of the bad version? Get it? Triste came out ok on the second version. But that's not a mini concert because I have to play 2 or more tunes without stopping :-)

Hi Guys this month i'm going to do the third part of my lesson for those of you who wants to practice quartal voicings and applied them in modal jazz.

As usual feel free to contact me through my website: www.giovanniperin.com and to follow me on FB and Youtube!

Hi Everyone,

Looking forward to my first time in Italy this coming week. I'll be playing next Saturday, February 25 at Gregories in Rome. Always great to meet other vibes players when I travel so please reach out and say hello if you're out there!

-Tyler