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Pedja Simovic

http://www.pedjazz.com

About Me

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Born on July 7th, 1983.Started playing guitar at the age of 12.At the age of 14 finished the 6-year Music Elementary School, after only 2 years of playing.When he was 15 enrolled in Music High School – First Placed on the entrance exam.At the age of 16 left Serbia and enrolled at London Guitar InstituteAt the age of 17 Completed "One Year Foundation in Popular Music Performance", as the Youngest StudentPerformed at the Music Festival in London, as one of the top 10 Best Guitar Students. Enrolled at Berklee College of Music at the age of 18At the age of 18(September-Fall 2001) was The Best Guitar Freshman at Berklee College of Music, with ratings 66666.Had Private Lessons with Mick Goodrick since his first semester all the way to the last.Studied at Berklee with the worlds best Jazz educators and performers (Ed Tomassi, Greg Hopkins, Dave Santoro, Bruce Bartlett etc)Graduated from Berklee College of Music in May 2005, “Professional Music” Diploma program.Founded a Customized Video Lesson Program and has been running it successfully for last 2 Years.Author of Correspondence Lessons, for a numerous web sites - Most Famed http://www.musicforte.comHas been teaching Private Lessons in the Boston Area.Currently teaching at Berklee College of Music Guitar Week.During the studies, Performed at numerous Festivals and was an Honorary Jury Member on some of them.Several Radio & TV Shows have been dedicated to his career and studies."Mars na Drinu".. width="425" height="350" ..Rock-Metal medleyFish cover - acoustic soloEmotion (original) - Jazz improvisation

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/26/2005
Band Website: pedjazz.com
Band Members: "For'N'Blues" original performed with Predrag Simovic quartet (2004)"Blue Bossa" performed at RTV Bellamie"Bluesette" master class at music school "Dr Vojislav Vuckovic" in Serbia
Influences: Scott Henderson, Michael Brecker, Keith Jarret,Chick Corea, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Miles Davies, Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Charlie Parker, Steps Ahead,Mick Goodrick, John Scofield, Alan Holdsworth, Mike Stern, Pat Metheny, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Greg Howe, Frank Gambale, BB King, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, GNR, Metallica ...
Sounds Like: Will let you figure this one out.Improvising over II V I in Eb - Bebop"All the things you are" Duo - Advanced Improvising"So what" improvised solo
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Starting to record !

I must say that all this music software makes things far more interesting and richer - for practice at least . I was taught to practice with just metronome on 2 and 4 so shifting from that to "full" b...
Posted by Pedja Simovic on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:51:00 PST

Find me on youtube

When you get a chance check out some videos of mine at following link http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pedjazz&sear ch=Search
Posted by Pedja Simovic on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:41:00 PST