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While pursuing a
professional career as an engineer in the aerospace industry and a few years as
a teacher in public schools, John had an active extracurricular life as an amateur
musician - singing and playing guitar in various rock bands, choirs, community
singalongs, barbershop quartets and musical stage productions.
After becoming
frustrated at not being able to quickly sing new music on the printed page and
identify musical notes and chords that he was hearing (so that he could sing and
play songs by ear), he began studying music theory and modern harmony - first
at a local community college and then in workshop classes at the Dick Grove School
of Contemporary Music in Los Angeles (which later morphed into the Musicians Institute).
After also taking workshops in Ear Training and Sightsinging, he began to develop
a "musical ear".
Since then his musical
life has been much more satisfying. And he has enjoyed teaching music theory and
sightsinging to various groups of fellow singers. Playing songs by ear on an instrument
is a natural outgrowth of this effort. |
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