Maggie told me she is totally into the class on Monday !!! I can't wait to get back with you in September. I'm working pretty hard on my lessons... and practicing with a new band. Hope to have a new blues song up on MySpace shortly. Where is the good jam? I'd love to show up and play a bit...
Just checked out the Summer edition of the artsforall catalog and wow ... you're a busy guy, teaching all sorts of great classes for Cascade Community School of Music. I like this one a lot :)
Barb
NEW! BLUES JAM
If you are not quite ready for the bar scene, here is your chance to try out your chops in a friendly environment. We'll learn a classic blues song each night, and work on solos, breaks, intros, endings and also touch on jam session etiquettte. Open to electric guitars, basses, drums, singers and keyboard players who can play "a little." Tuition $145
Instructor: Robert Lee Mon - Fri Jul 21-25 7:30-9 pm
Yeah,and if my left hand doesn't either go to sleep or cramp up on me
I know I'll make it through the gig! It's hell gettin' old.
On another note,I'd like to get with you on this symmetrical theory that Rich was talking about the other night,sounds real interesting.
Ok,take care...see you at the Northside.
bob
JOHN MAYER: When I was a kid I was influenced by whoever was on the radio--Michael Jackson and the Police and bands like that. Until I picked up a tape of Stevie Ray Vaughan's music. There was something resonating in it that I still can't describe. My life was different once I heard that. I didn't know what that was, but I wanted to do it. I remember saying to my dad, "Can I go to blues lessons? Do they have blues lessons down the street?"
EJ: And when did you start playing the guitar?
JM: I was 13. I remember the first night I got my guitar, trying to figure it out for myself--and it didn't take long to figure out a chord. I had the guitar two weeks before I took lessons, and I feel like that's the best thing you can ever do for yourself.
EJ: I agree with you. I kind of learned by ear and then I had lessons later on and it really helped me, just picking things up myself. I think you form your own style that way.
JM: Yeah, I see the guitar in a way that I could never articulate to anybody. Everyone has their own theory. You have to have a theory to play the instrument, but for the most part--
EJ: --It's all about your own soul coming through. I'm sure you hold your guitar sacred, right?
JM: Absolutely. It's the biggest joy. It's like this firework in your gut. It's the closest thing to being able to make things appear and disappear, it's almost magic.
EJ: You can get so high off a feeling like that. So when did you start singing?
JM: Singing had always been there. I used to do middle school and high school theatre before I hit puberty. But I just got so into guitar playing; I wanted to be the best guitar player. I didn't care if people said that John Mayer was obnoxious, because I probably was. But if it was ever followed up by "But, damn, he can play guitar," that was fine with me.
"...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking going on, per se - it's more like riding a wave. and I know how to stand on the board" - Robben Ford - Guitar
"... Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear..." Susan Tedeschi
Central Oregon Blues Society
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Did we kick ass last night?
Cause if we did, I forgot to take names.
I had a blast and I think we sounded pretty good.
Andy
Maggie told me she is totally into the class on Monday !!! I can't wait to get back with you in September. I'm working pretty hard on my lessons... and practicing with a new band. Hope to have a new blues song up on MySpace shortly. Where is the good jam? I'd love to show up and play a bit...
Barb
NEW! BLUES JAM
If you are not quite ready for the bar scene, here is your chance to try out your chops in a friendly environment. We'll learn a classic blues song each night, and work on solos, breaks, intros, endings and also touch on jam session etiquettte. Open to electric guitars, basses, drums, singers and keyboard players who can play "a little." Tuition $145
Instructor: Robert Lee
Mon - Fri Jul 21-25 7:30-9 pm
I know I'll make it through the gig! It's hell gettin' old.
On another note,I'd like to get with you on this symmetrical theory that Rich was talking about the other night,sounds real interesting.
Ok,take care...see you at the Northside.
bob
Like the new look on your page, Robert !
EJ: And when did you start playing the guitar?
JM: I was 13. I remember the first night I got my guitar, trying to figure it out for myself--and it didn't take long to figure out a chord. I had the guitar two weeks before I took lessons, and I feel like that's the best thing you can ever do for yourself.
EJ: I agree with you. I kind of learned by ear and then I had lessons later on and it really helped me, just picking things up myself. I think you form your own style that way.
JM: Yeah, I see the guitar in a way that I could never articulate to anybody. Everyone has their own theory. You have to have a theory to play the instrument, but for the most part--
EJ: --It's all about your own soul coming through. I'm sure you hold your guitar sacred, right?
JM: Absolutely. It's the biggest joy. It's like this firework in your gut. It's the closest thing to being able to make things appear and disappear, it's almost magic.
EJ: You can get so high off a feeling like that. So when did you start singing?
JM: Singing had always been there. I used to do middle school and high school theatre before I hit puberty. But I just got so into guitar playing; I wanted to be the best guitar player. I didn't care if people said that John Mayer was obnoxious, because I probably was. But if it was ever followed up by "But, damn, he can play guitar," that was fine with me.
Am / F to passing GG#Am. Riff = D2 E D C A G A (D+F) (C+E) Lets Do It. Cant wait.
Barb
"I never practice guitar... from time to time, I just open my guitar case and throw in a piece of raw meat."
-Miles Davis-
"Notes are expensive... spend them wisely
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