Taking music lessons
The first thing you notice about visiting a musical store are the steps. I have just climbed sixteen steps and I am now waiting to take a Jazz piano lesson The next observation is the myriad of musical instruments in the vicinity. You wonder is the store there for lessons or to sell instruments? I am at the Jerome Green music studio on any street off Lonsdale in North Vancouver. This year I am taking Jazz piano lessons. In previous years I have taken guitar, drums and harmonica. Not at the same time. There is a Periodic chart of musical history on one wall and a Rodney Graham print on the other wall together with a painting of Capilano Canyon Park labeled by a student. I have arranged my book so that I can play Gershwin’s Summer Time and Three Friends ago by a local composer. I need help with Charlie Parker’s “Now’s is the Time” but I can’t find the sheet. Maybe I could try Route 66? You can tell the drum and piano students. They only bring thei