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pardon my procrastination - - i've been hanging around here for a year or two, but i'm just now getting around to introducing myself. i am a retirement age (though still working, sadly) amateur. i've had a couple of careers, not in any way related to music. i've been taking lessons from a real jazz pianist for just under a year now; and i had lessons on the hammond organ, from a pop organist, in the late 70's. also had lessons as a kid, but quit early because i couldn't stand hanon, or playing "the old oaken bucket", or somebody's minuet, and found i could play elvis and fats domino songs by ear.

other than those lessons, i'm mostly self-taught. i have only played with other players once, in a jam session in a jazz club, but i am working up to another session soon. i practice for this using band-in-a-box. it is teaching me, among other things, to keep time, though i still tend to get ahead of the beat.

below there is a link to my homepage, with examples of me playing with band-in-a-box. i put these files out there to irritate my friends and family, and delight my enemies. there are mistakes and more than a few cliches; and - - you don't have to tell me - - the computer generated solos (on vibes) are better (more original, more aesthetically pleasing) than my own! (how do they do that?)

anyway, if anyone cares to listen, and provide any (constructive, of course) comments on how i can improve, what to work on next, etc, i would be most appreciative.

thanks,

ed

https://hometown.aol.com/riddlereader/index.html

by on 02/10/2007, 20:08

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