tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70782299730338347202024-02-20T21:19:20.678-08:00Monica Passin, Musician /TeacherAdventures in teaching, playing, performing, practicing, writing, and listening to musicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-69262857721437829822020-06-23T20:40:00.003-07:002020-06-23T20:40:53.113-07:00a Facebook live concert!originals, standards, country music, doo-wop, musicals!<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/monica.passin/videos/vb.100000153583622/3588165581198526/?type=3">https://www.facebook.com/monica.passin/videos/vb.100000153583622/3588165581198526/?type=3</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-9985596847002636822020-03-17T12:21:00.001-07:002020-03-17T12:21:45.132-07:00Now offering guitar lessons online!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Now, as responsible citizens, we are hunkering down in our homes as much as possible, and it's a great time to do some good for our souls, learn something new, and do things together, but in a social distancing kind of way. So I am offering guitar lessons online (ukulele, too!) and geographical location doesn't have to get in our way! Read about my work, and contact me on this blog. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spend a musical hour with me. Reasonable rates!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cockeyed Optimist, from South Pacific, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Rodgers & Hammerstein</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wrote the solo guitar arrangement based on ascending basslines, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">starting on the fifth, for many of the chords.</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-21472521357698836712019-11-30T17:50:00.001-08:002019-12-19T21:15:31.179-08:00Let's Twist Again...with some holiday seasoning!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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purchasing tickets online is the best way to save money and guarantee a seat. here's the direct ticket link: <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4432055" target="_blank">tickets to the fallout shelter!</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Monica Passin sings and tells tales of her life, and the world at large, in 1962. She was five. Blessedly unaware of the threat of nuclear annihilation, Monica saw a world of people dancing and having fun, responding with the biggest dance craze of all, the Twist! Her father had danced on television, and her parents met mamboing. When she reached for the toes of Chubby Checker, on stage in a sharkskin suit in the Catskills, the die was cast for a life of music and dance and a culture swap that maybe, just maybe, could save the world.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-69652697862433096322019-10-14T09:13:00.003-07:002019-10-14T09:13:51.555-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-69293034987429604262019-10-14T09:10:00.002-07:002019-10-14T09:11:44.896-07:00Have you visited my performance site recently?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://monicapassinmusic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">monica's shows!</a></h2>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-26924957339288530892019-04-17T13:47:00.002-07:002019-04-17T13:48:05.645-07:00my next big production! april 28 at 2A in nyc<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-16549405971573459152019-03-25T14:13:00.000-07:002019-04-17T13:50:57.954-07:00shows upcoming! updated!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-91181123411298296952018-05-31T11:05:00.000-07:002018-05-31T11:05:29.359-07:00Hey! Have some fun on my new music/performance site!<br />
<a href="https://monicapassinmusic.blogspot.com/">https://monicapassinmusic.blogspot.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-45377688448410614782017-09-05T15:02:00.000-07:002017-09-05T15:02:11.986-07:00My new album is out now! Read all about it!<br />
<a href="http://monicapassin.com/">http://monicapassin.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-37341591902308345982016-10-06T08:13:00.003-07:002016-10-06T08:28:36.777-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">I'm making a new album! Would you like to play a part?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Please visit! </span> <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/monica-5" target="_blank">https://www.gofundme.com/monica-5</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-21320810536704246902015-10-21T17:41:00.002-07:002015-10-21T17:46:14.055-07:00Let's play.<br />
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<span class="s1">I love to play and sing with other musicians. I get to play in duos, trios, combos, bands. But I’m really glad that I can accompany myself on a few instruments. I like to write arrangements for myself and my guitar students that include parts that other bandmates might play, if they were there; e.g. walking or alternating basslines, signature licks, breaks, rhythm solos, percussive strumming, various chord voicings. This is my accompaniment style, and I love to teach it. If you are a singer-songwriter and feel you are stuck on a plateau regarding your guitar playing, a student or player who’d like to understand more of the possibilities of the guitar, or someone who’d like to learn a song or many songs, come for a lesson. I’m open to the occasional lesson or the regular booking. Let’s play.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-89404782872236995232015-01-11T14:54:00.002-08:002015-01-11T14:54:23.366-08:00New Course OfferingsYesterday I wrote up a guitar arrangement for the Beatles' version of A Taste of Honey. Lots of songs get cooler when you analyze them a bit; I teach the guitar part(s) but also guide the student to give attention to chord progressions and chord voicings, songwriting, composition, performance. This song just may make the cut in one of my new guitar courses for intermediate students, British Invasion Immersion. We'll tackle some Kinks, Stones, Beatles, Animals, and more. I'm putting together a course in American Songbook/Standards as well, and I'll keep you posted as to these and other offerings so that we can get started soon and fight the winter doldrums. Meantime, you can contact me here. As always, I have a great curriculum for beginners, too, and lots of songs and arrangements in the filing cabinets. Don't go another year without playing more. PLAY.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078229973033834720.post-39305798816288709572015-01-05T08:38:00.004-08:002015-01-05T08:38:30.613-08:00Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Cotten!I'm so proud to have taught your music to so many people.<br />
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