Josh Rawlings || Seattle Pianist, Piano Teacher & Composer http://www.joshrawlings.com Music of Seattle based jazz, soul & pop pianist Josh Rawlings Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:34:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Live Music before the Holidays! http://www.joshrawlings.com/live-music-before-the-holidays/ http://www.joshrawlings.com/live-music-before-the-holidays/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:25:51 +0000 joshrawlings http://www.joshrawlings.com/?p=523 Continue reading →]]> Well — I’m fresh back from an incredible trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with my wife Emily and boy Leo. It was our first international excurssion as a family and we had delightful time together. I’m excited to play some music this week and share some of that Traquillo R&R and Sunshine with you all!

I have 2 fantastic live performances in Seattle that I hope you can attend:

The first is this Wednesday, Dec. 21st at LUCID from 8pm to 11pm. I’ll be playing piano and accompanying vocalist Michelle Searle as well as some other special guest vocalists. We’ll be doing everything from Jazz to Funk/Soul and some holiday classics mixed in as well (or not – that is if you’re tired of hearing holiday tunes). Unfortunately this show is 21+, but the 2nd show below is all ages…if you’re looking to try and bring the little ones ;-)

More info can be found here: http://www.joshrawlings.com/shows/

The 2nd show will be with the Josh Rawlings Trio at Sip Seattle on Thursday, Dec. 22nd from 6pm to 9pm. My trio has been playing Sip Wine Bar in Issaquah and Seattle now for the past month and a half and have been really enjoying our shows. Sip features an incredible selection of first class wine and their food is AMAZING! We’ve been playing a select number of Thursdays and Thursday night just happens to be ‘Ladies Night’ as well! Discount prices on food and drinks for the ladies all night long! Join my Trio this Thursday and remember we’re taking requests — so you can request from nearly a list of 500 tunes — and that includes holiday tunes if you so desire ;-)

More info can be found here: http://www.joshrawlings.com/shows/

Also — for those of you who aren’t on my group The Teaching’s mailing list (if you’d like you can signup HERE), you’ll be happy to know (if you’re in the Denver area or know someone who lives there) that I have 3 shows planned for after Christmas in Denver. This will be our 4th year in a row performing as a group down there and I’m really excited to be back for this short run of shows. I’ll be at Dazzle Jazz Club on Dec. 27th, Christ the King on Dec. 28th and at the D Note on Dec. 30th. More information about the tour can be found on our websitehttp://www.theteachingmusic.com/shows

Happy Holidays and thank you so much for your support of my music and Live Music in the Seattle area! Would love to see you this week at a show.

]]> http://www.joshrawlings.com/live-music-before-the-holidays/feed/ 0 Nick Drake Tribute Album http://www.joshrawlings.com/nick-drake-tribute-album/ http://www.joshrawlings.com/nick-drake-tribute-album/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:56:38 +0000 joshrawlings http://www.joshrawlings.com/?p=376 Continue reading →]]> Hi everyone,

I’m so excited to announce that the Jason Parker Quartet heads to Jack Straw Studios on Dec. 26th to record our next CD, “FIve Leaves Left: A Jazz Tribute to Nick Drake”. We will remake British singer-songwriter Nick Drake’s debut album in our own inimitable style!

To help raise funds for the project we have partnered with Kickstarter, the #1 site helping independent artists worldwide connect with their fans in new and innovative ways.

Please take a minute to check out the video below explaining the project at http://oneworkingmusician.com/nick-drake-project and make a pledge of support today.

Thank you so much for your support of this wonderful project.

Here’s a fun video put together by the bandleader, Jason Parker, of Robot characters talking about the recording project – you’ll laugh!

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“I teach effortless music creation.”
-Josh Rawlings

  • Unlock your creative voice
  • Gain a solid foundation in the fundamentals and technique
  • Fall in love with music
  • Open your passion for discovery
  • Create music out of thin air
  • Discover the effortless play that can emerge once the basic tools and understanding are in place

Teaching music to me is all about helping ignite a musicians’ excitement to discover. When students come to work with me my goal is to find out what makes them want to fall in love with music and then nurture that passion into something that will keep them truly engaged.  I teach from the inside out and how music is meant to be in-Joyed (enjoyed).  Fundamentals and technique are an integral part of the development and are cracked open from an angle of giving each student the right tools so they may simply unlock their own creative voice.

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Tell me about yourself by filling out this questionnaire: What Makes You Sing?

Further questions or comments can be sent to josh@joshrawlings.com.

]]> http://www.joshrawlings.com/instruction/feed/ 0 The Teaching at 2010 Earshot Jazz Festival http://www.joshrawlings.com/the-teaching-at-2010-earshot-jazz-festival/ http://www.joshrawlings.com/the-teaching-at-2010-earshot-jazz-festival/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:51:22 +0000 joshrawlings http://www.joshrawlings.com/?p=334 Continue reading →]]> Friends, family and fans of The Teaching! We’re so, so excited to announce our Triple Door show as part of the 2010 Earshot Jazz Festival this coming Wednesday, October 27th at 7:00pm. Please see the event details by clicking on the link below and share this post and poster with anyone and everyone you know. We want to show Earshot and Triple Door  we can fill the venue with our incredible, loving and supportive fans for this special performance. We’d love for you to be in attendance and welcome any of you who wish to spread the word on the street! Let’s GET ‘EM CATS!

http://www.theteachingmusic.com/shows

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There’s some really nice reviews coming in for MC Spekulation’s latest record ‘The Depression Era‘ coming in this past week. Check them out:

By Hip-Hop Northwest writer CK: http://www.HipHopNorthwest.com/?p=1448

“I was impressed”
~CK

By Posted In The Parking Lot writer Joey MC: http://postedintheparkinglot.com/2010/10/13/spekulation-the-depression-era-ep/

“The Depression Era EP is an interesting entry into the field, one that has its moments and hopefully signals more collaboration between these currently disparate scenes.”
~Joey MC

If you haven’t downloaded the FREE album on Spekulation’s BandCamp page – do yourself a favor and get it NOW GAL DANG IT!!! http://spekulation.bandcamp.com/album/the-depression-era-ep

]]> http://www.joshrawlings.com/depression-era-ep-review/feed/ 0 Services http://www.joshrawlings.com/services/ http://www.joshrawlings.com/services/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:36:59 +0000 joshrawlings http://www.joshrawlings.com/?p=281 Continue reading →]]> Transcriptions: I can quickly and easily turn a handwritten chart, audio file or transfer of an orchestrated chart into a clean and flexible music file in notation software Finale. The charts I create are clean and legible and will vastly improve your music books for gigging, rehearsals and your own use. I also can teach others how to use Finale and the various techniques to making nice working charts. My average is about an hour for about 3-4-page song or 3 single-sheet charts, an hour for a 3 to 5 minute transcription of a song and less time if it’s a simple popular song or transfer from another written chart. There’s no job too big or too difficult for me to crack open and turn into a beautiful, clean and legible chart.

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  • Graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Music in 2005
  • 10+ years of performance and music business experience
  • Private instruction 2+ years (including some school instruction at Skyline High School, Cornish College of the Arts and Moore Brothers Music in Sammamish)
  • Started my booking company J&J Music with a business partner in 2008 and still book countless performances year round in the greater Seattle area
  • Worked as a consultant and business agent for the Musicians’ Association of Seattle from 2007 to 2009
  • I’ve been a grant panelist for Artist Trust and devoted countless hours to helping develop a more vibrate and sustaining music scene for live musicians in the Seattle Area

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      ]]>       http://www.joshrawlings.com/experience/feed/ 0       About http://www.joshrawlings.com/teaching-about/ http://www.joshrawlings.com/teaching-about/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:36:10 +0000 joshrawlings http://www.joshrawlings.com/?p=277 Continue reading →]]> My story though music has been all about that deep connection and love for music. I connected with the music at a very early age first starting on pots and pans in my parents’ kitchen and then graduating to a toy keyboard at the age of 3. I started my first piano lessons around the age of 4 or 5.  The beginning stages of my musical development was simply about nurturing my passion to discover and connect with music – in other words I wasn’t a structured or focused student and wasn’t interested in practicing scales and the like.  The fundamentals did make there way in to my playing in these formative years, however, again I was wanting simply write music and play what I heard on the radio and in my own head.  It wasn’t until middle school and high school when I started studying percussion, drum-set and tending to my music reading abilities, that I really started progressing and falling deeply in love with my first instrument (piano).  While attending music festivals with the high school vocal jazz choir, playing in the jazz band, marching band and doing musicals, I developed a much more mature approach to my music making and what it meant to be a real professional.  Once I graduated high school I attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where I was truly committed to my craft and on the path I’m still on today.  In college I melded the discipline and fun of creating music on a level I had never experienced before.

      Since graduating from Cornish in 2005 I’ve been on the ground running and haven’t ever looked back.  My career has taken me down the West Coast on tour with a Jazz Quartet outfit, I’ve taken several trips to places like Colorado, Savannah, Vancouver BC, Europe, New York and Minnesota, and last year I opened for R&B/Soul singer Al Green.  I’ve now played most of the large music venues in Seattle including Beneroya Hall, Jazz Alley, Triple Door & Safeco Field and have performed for countless weddings, private parties for all sorts of wonderful people including the Governor Christine Gregoire & Mayor Greg Nickels.

      Now, as I write this I’m about to play with some of my dear music friends for a really nice private party on Whidbey Island and starring out at the Puget Sound.  It’s hard to imagine where life will take you when you’re young, and even as I sit here now it’s just impossible to tell what’s around the corner.  All I can say is that I love what I do, I love this music I create, the people I play with and it’s one heck of an adventure.  It’s the rollercoaster ride that I can’t ever seem to get enough of!  My one hope is that I may simply share the joy and peace I feel in this music and uplift and carry many of you along with me for the ride of a lifetime!

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      ]]>       http://www.joshrawlings.com/teaching-about/feed/ 0       The Studio http://www.joshrawlings.com/the-studio/ http://www.joshrawlings.com/the-studio/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:35:47 +0000 joshrawlings http://www.joshrawlings.com/?p=279 Continue reading →]]> Lessons, rehearsals and recordings can be held in my music studio detached from the house where I live.  I have a Baldwin upright piano inside my house that can also be used. The studio was completely remodeled by me, my housemate and local trombonist Ron Gilchrist, and several other music friends from the empty cold garage it was when I moved in, to the warm inviting room that it is now. The room (which was originally a gun making workshop for the previous owner of the house) was transformed from the hands of artists into a beautiful music making space – what a transformation huh?!

      The studio is equipped with many great features and instruments including:

      • A Pearl Export rock drum set and a large box of miscellaneous percussion instruments
      • My vast keyboard collection: Kurzweil PC2X keyboard, 1977 Mark 1 – Stage Fender Rhodes, Korg CX3 Organ Synthesizer, 1972 200A – Wurliizer Electric Piano and a Korg R3 Synthesizer
      • A nice collection of Pop/Jazz/Latin/Classical songbooks, method books, etc.
      • Wharfendale Titan 12 Active PA Speaker, Mackie ProFX12 mixer and an assortment of several professional vocal microphones, stands, etc.
      • Comfortable furniture for relaxing and listening to music
      • Electric guitar, 2 acoustic guitars and 1 backpacker guitar
      • Fender Twin Reverb Reissue Amp (typically used with the Fender Rhodes & Wurlitzer Electric Pianos)
      • All necessary cabling, power, etc. needed to hook up instruments and play through the sound system
      • PreSonus Firebox recording system into Digital Performer 6.0 on my MacBook Pro studio computer

      -Video’s, pictures, lesson examples, etc.

      -Skype (mobile lessons)

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      ]]>       http://www.joshrawlings.com/the-studio/feed/ 0       Rates & Studio Policies http://www.joshrawlings.com/rates-studio-policies/ http://www.joshrawlings.com/rates-studio-policies/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:35:20 +0000 joshrawlings http://www.joshrawlings.com/?p=283 Continue reading →]]> Rates:

      Transcriptions: $25/hr. (client either emails, snail-mails or drops off the charts/audio)

      Rehearsals: $60/hr. at my studio / $90/hr. at client’s house (rehearsals farther than 20 miles away will have an extra fee for mileage)

      Recordings: $60/hr. for simple room-mic/multi-track recordings in my studio / $100/hr. for recordings on-site at client’s house (additional services such as mixing, editing and/or more involved recording set-ups may have additional fees)

      Private Instruction: $60/hr. at my studio / $90/hr. at client’s house (lessons farther than 20 miles away will have an extra fee for mileage)

      Groups Instruction: $50/hr. per student / $80/hr. per student at another location (group instruction farther than 20 miles away will have an extra fee for mileage)

      Online Instruction via Skype: $50/hr. for a lesson anywhere in the world…that’s right – anywhere – ah the power of the internet! (I’ll either broadcast from my home studio or a location where I will have a piano or instrument near so I can illustrate certain things in the lesson.

      Studio Policies:

      Payment Policy: If you plan to take regular lessons with me for at least a month I require the new student, client to pay for the full month in advance before lessons occur.

      Cancellation Policy: If a student is sick they must inform me as soon as possible and we can reschedule a make-up lesson when the student is well again. In the case of a no-show, last minute cancellation without notice with-in 24 hours, the student will not be able to receive a refund. In the case of an emergency or special circumstances we may be able to reschedule a missed lesson.

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