Hi friends, this is Mr.

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J and I'm a music teacher here on Lesson Pal.

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I've been teaching music for more than 25 years.

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I've taught music in public and private schools.

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I was a vendor with a charter school.

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I had an afterschool program.

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Um, I did a combined guitar

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and ukulele class in a community center,

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but mostly what I've done

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is one-on-one lesson either in people's homes

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or more recently via Zoom.

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I've had students as young as kids in preschool,

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and I've had students who are graduates of medical school.

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Primarily, I teach the ukulele using the songs

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of the Roaring Twenties from Speakeasies and Vaudeville

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and Tin Pan Alley and pre-code musicals.

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This is the first music that I ever listened to as a child

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before the Beatles, uh, from my parents

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and my grandparents collection of 78 RPM records.

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I also teach country blues, uh, when I cover open tuning,

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slide guitar, finger picking,

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and a technique called shuffling.

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The reason I like teaching the blues in early jazz is

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that they're not only genres of music

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but their formats, uh, which means there's a structural,

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a structure common to many, if not most of the songs.

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So you're not just learning individual songs,

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you're learning how dozens, if not hundreds

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of songs operate.

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Uh, the chord progressions in the early jazz largely are a

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circle of fifths changes.

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And in the blues, it's a format known as 12 Bar Blues.

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Uh, and there's also a circle of fifth songs, um,

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in the, in the Blues.

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And of course, you'll learn what that is.

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Uh, we can, um, I also teach music from the sixties, the,

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the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, the Turtles,

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the Loving Spoonful,

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or practically any other song from the sixties.

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Or we can work on something you like from a Disney musical

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or some other song that you're fond of.

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Uh, feel free to email me

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and, uh, you can try one lesson at a time

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or you can sign up for four.

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Thanks very much. Take care. See you soon. Bye.

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