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TOTM - Autumn leaves - Practice tape by Tony Miceli

Ok here's my practice tape for Autumn Leaves. Stops and starts and all that.

When I practice a tune like this in this way, I just try stuff and messing around in different keys. I'll try technical stuff, and melodic ideas. Anything.

If I space out or lose the form, then I just stop and focus and try again.

How do you practice the tune? Maybe give us a 5 minute snippet of you practicing and let us know how and what you're doing.

MetroWest Jazz Project at Sunset Jazz series in Hopkinton

So a local arts organization, the Hopkinton Cultural Arts Alliance (www.caahop.org), did some renovations and used some of the leftover materials to create a really nice outdoor "amphitheater" performance area. I managed to get a grant to run a series of five concerts in the space, and the video above is from the last one, where my band, the MetroWest Jazz Project played. The video was taken by a local news site (www.hopnews.com) and shows the end of my solo and part of the guitar solo on "Sky Dive" and the beginning of "Yes or No".