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To: Kathy in Alaska

Hi Everyone!

Got a bunch of new students this week.

Precious Kids!Some of them are really talented.

I get them making REAL music right away with a mistake-proof duet in Gb where they improvise on the black keys while I play a sequence on the left side which is a very cool pattern. Everything they play sounds excellent, as long as they keep to my groove and play ONLY Black keys. It sounds like very sophisticated New Age Jazz, and it’s on the First lesson!

On Guitar, it’s a little different. I tech the “Blues Scale” early on, then plug in the Bass and let them Improvise over me playing a Blues Bass line.

Either way it’s like being in a BAND!


88 posted on 08/22/2010 7:19:46 PM PDT by left that other site
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To: left that other site

I’ll bet kids love to have you for a music teacher!


91 posted on 08/22/2010 7:21:17 PM PDT by luvie (DIMs?......start packin'--you're fired!....I can see November from my house!)
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To: left that other site

A bunch of new kids.....do you teach them singly, or some in groups, or did I miss that you are a school music teacher with a room full of kids?
Either way, way cool that you teach to make cool music early on.


101 posted on 08/22/2010 7:34:34 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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