Congratulations to our students who’ve been invited to perform in the Improvisation Celebration and Composers Today Symposium at the 2022 Music Teachers Association of California State Convention this summer!
JUL 3, 2022
IMPROVISATION CELEBRATION RECITAL #1, Garden Room #3, 10am:
Alexander N. “Improvisatison on D Double Harmonic Major”
Leethen R. “Improvisation on C Major Pentatonic”
Jacob M. “Improvisation on D Double Harmonic Major”
Chidera O. “Improvsation on C Major Pentatonic”
Chinaza O. “Improvisation on G Lydian and E Dorian”
Benjamin F. “Autumn Leaves”
IMPROVISATION CELEBRATION RECITAL #2, Garden Room #3, 5pm:
Kara T. “E Major Country Blues (a Waltz)”
Hanson T. “Improvisation on E-flat Minor Pentatonic”
COMPOSERS TODAY SYMPOSIUM RECITAL #1, Garden Room #3, 3pm:
Leethen R. “A Boy and His Mountaingoat”
Chidera O. “A Joyful Journey”
Chinaza O. “The Forest Congregation”
Hanson T. “Parade”
Kara T. “Merry-Go-Round”
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Here are important worksheets to help organize practicing, plan and prepare for Music Development Program exams, Composers Today, and the Improvisation Festival.

Senior Solo Recital Program:
Goldberg Variations, Haydn Sonata, Ravel's Ondine, a Kapustin Concert Etude. Encores: Chopin nocturne, Shchedrin's Basso Ostinato
Congratulations Nicholas Echeverry, 2014 Advanced Panel Finals Awards for Piano! Hard work and dedication paying off!

Hey Hey Hey if you haven't heard already THIS THURSDAY night from 9pm to close we have a special night of blues and jammin with Mark Fitchett and friends! FREE no cover live music with the GREAT South Bay Rock and Blues artist Mark Fitchett! BRING YOUR INSTRUMENTS, this is a jam baby! That's right, YOU get to jam with the greats for freeeeeeeeeeee! Lots of friends coming, don't miss this special night of jamming and fun at The Hermosa Saloon on November 21st. Bring those Instruments and jam with the greats! :-)

Nicholas Echeverry Solo Recital Excerpts
http://youtu.be/Tu5TATpkHtw
Junior Solo Recital - Long Beach School of Music Student Performs Mozart Liszt & Poulenc Excerpts of a 17 year old student at Long Beach School of Music performing in his Junior Solo Recital at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hawthorne, California W.A...
10 Questions For Every Aspiring Jazz Musician | Michael Zilber Here are some comments meant for any serious student of jazz, based on my years as a player and a teacher as well as drawing liberally from my talks with Dave Liebman.
Congratulations to Noah Lovold for winning First Place at the Sonata/Sonatina Festival!!

The uncle of one of our newest piano students is an accomplished tabla musician, and he's giving a FREE concert at UCLA's Fowler Museum this Thursday! The performance is all new original Indian Classical music, with an emphasis on tabla and music composed for dance. It is outdoors, free, suitable for kids and families, and part of the wonderful Fowler Out Loud series of world music. Come on down if you can!
http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/events/fowler-out-loud-ravindra-deo-and-friends
Fowler Out Loud: Ravindra Deo and Friends | Fowler Museum at UCLA Ravindra Deo returns to Fowler Out Loud for a solo concert on the Indian tabla, plus special guest appearances throughout the evening. Don’t miss this enchanting performance of Indian classical music.
Congratulations Certificate of Merit Honor Roll students:
Keren Brown 99%
Lucas Coriaty 99%
Alan Maedo 98%
Noah Lovold 98%
Stephen Kelman 94%
Katie Whipp 91%
Congratulations to student Collin Bachet for being selected as an Alternate Winner for his performance of Bartok's Allegro Barbaro at the 2013 MTAC Adult Performance Program!

Learn The 5 Positions of the E Minor Pentatonic Scale on the Guitar Related to CAGED Chords The minor pentatonic scale on the guitar, and particularily the E minor pentatonic scale is a blues and rock guitar staple. There have been so many guitar driven songs in this key that one could easily make a case for E being the starting place to learn about blues and rock soloing.

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