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My 3-Day Guide to NYC – Gary Lee
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Hire Me to Play. Hire Me to Play. My 3-Day Guide to NYC. January 15, 2015. I don’t care what anyone says, I love being a tourist! I’m always immensely grateful whenever I have the opportunity to travel and see a new place. Last week was my first time in New York City. I went to perform with the young piano star, Ethan Bortnick. At the APAP conference (check him out if you haven’t yet). Gary’s Dead Simple Easy Guide to Have Fun in NYC in 3 Days. But I had fun, so there*. Go with some fun people. We ate at...
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Build Your Network by Adding Value (Reminder Email Series) – Gary Lee
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Hire Me to Play. Hire Me to Play. Build Your Network by Adding Value (Reminder Email Series). September 18, 2014. I decided to create a 13 Week Email Reminder Series to help myself (and anyone else who wants to join me) be better at developing professional relationships. It’s based on a post called, Networking, Relationship Building, and Adding Value. I wrote it to help people rethink what it looks like to network, especially in music business. You can sign up below. It’s totally free. No s...Button href...
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Recycling Chord Shapes – Gary Lee
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Hire Me to Play. Hire Me to Play. January 21, 2015. Chalk drawing and photo by the lovely Roopa Lee – @roopseydaisy. Joe Pass is one of my favorite guitarists. One reason I love his playing is that he does so much with so little. There’s a great teaching video series in which Joe explains the importance of not overthinking in music. He wants to make it as simple as possible in his mind. Here’s my favorite quote from that video. 8211; Joe Pass. Greater understanding of fretboard harmony. Seeing the same c...
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Music Theory Simplified into 3 Chords – Gary Lee
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Hire Me to Play. Hire Me to Play. Music Theory Simplified into 3 Chords. March 3, 2015. This a short guide about how I think about harmony. It’s a way of simplifying all the chords derived from a major scale into just 3 types/functions: Major I, Minor ii and Dominant V. This has helped me navigate complex chord progressions and also is a great tool for discovering different chord options while composing. Here’s how it works. Stacking the major scale notes in 3rds gives us 7 chord functions. Acoustic Guit...
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Start Here – Gary Lee
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Hire Me to Play. Hire Me to Play. Honored that you’ve stopped in to check out my blog. Here are a few fun things to get you started. I’m a guitarist and I love music projects. I got my start working as an intern in 2005 transcribing charts for jazz guitar great, Lee Ritenour. The following year, I was prepping charts for Lee’s upcoming recording sessions for his album,. These are short acoustic guitar originals I share from recent writing/composing sessions. How to Break Free of Position Playing on Guitar.
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Networking, Relationships, and Adding Value – Gary Lee
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Hire Me to Play. Hire Me to Play. Networking, Relationships, and Adding Value. September 3, 2014. One of my favorite satirical twitter accounts. Is chock-full of wonderfully hilarious passive aggressive tweets about being a “humble” working musician. Here are a few of my favorites…. My Sony Studios Missed Opportunity. I recently worked at Sony Studios in Culver City. I was dead tired from staying up all night to get a big music copying job done and was hired to be the music librarian for the session ...
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Make The Most of Your Pedal Board Setup – Gary Lee
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Hire Me to Play. Hire Me to Play. Make The Most of Your Pedal Board Setup. March 25, 2015. It took me years to get my pedal board setup up and running. I’ve never been a “gear head;” it just kept getting put on the back burner. I was the guy showing up to gigs and pulling separate pedals out and plugging everything in manually. It was just a mess and I knew I needed to get organized. Here’s what I use in order of the signal chain. Rodenberg Gas 827 Overdrive. Pog 2 Polyphonic Octave Generator. I kept see...
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Use 2 Rhythm Guitar Parts to Create a Unique Hook – Gary Lee
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Hire Me to Play. Hire Me to Play. Use 2 Rhythm Guitar Parts to Create a Unique Hook. March 31, 2015. The first time I heard Eric Church’s song,. On the radio I thought to myself, “wow, what a great acoustic guitar part! 8221; The intro got me hooked immediately and it’s definitely become one of my favorite country songs lately. Here’s my rendition of the intro:. And here are the parts by themselves. Plays the riff capo-ed at the 1st fret and uses open C chord shapes. If you’re in a situation with 2...
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The Value of Learning By Ear – Gary Lee
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Hire Me to Play. Hire Me to Play. The Value of Learning By Ear. August 28, 2014. One of the single best exercises I’ve engaged in as a musician has been learning by ear. Whether it’s a chord progression, a rhythm, a song, an improvised solo, or a cool riff, the act of figuring something out by ear causes you learn and understand at a much deeper level. I want to encourage you to make this a habit in your own life. Try this. Figure out how Sting made such a beautiful pop song in 5/4. Acoustic Guitarist Co...
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Create Beautiful Charts (Free Sibelius Template) – Gary Lee
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Hire Me to Play. Hire Me to Play. Create Beautiful Charts (Free Sibelius Template). September 13, 2014. I create a lot of charts. I make them when I’m preparing for gigs or for other musicians’ recording sessions or live shows. It’s something that I have come to enjoy because it’s such a great way of improving your ear. And there’s just something special about having beautiful looking charts of your music printed out, taped and ready to go. A process is key. My friend Eric Shouse. From Closer By One.
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