the internet business when technology you know was at its best so we dove into that for a while so i'm into technology so that you know what sparked my interest in that and then you know we decided after you know doing a lot of that to actually just turn a place into a musical education center said so and instead of you know stores that give lessons we're more of a school that has a store that sells gear on the side so we're going to focus more on the music education here and that's what we do so you have a very strong role as a bone leader pianist oh yeah i mean i do everything here or here now but the most rewarding job is actually you know teaching the kids to play and performing live to is really great and you have many presentations yeah we've done a lot of gigs this summer waterfront a lot of fourth of july stuff block parties were it on tap every saturday last saturday of every month we play there on saturdays from five to seven a good place to test out the new songs that we do which is great and what is one of the music that you enjoy more to come for music while one of the i think neat things about this band that we have here they're going to see in a little while is we do a lot of variety from you know all these pop music doobie brothers chicago we have a horn section that joins us from time to time with professionals our teachers join us on stage  so it's really an entertaining thing to watch and the kids really learn a lot from the different styles of music that we perform that's the idea sure we have been watching some of them and when we arrive here you were having a piano so what do you have the mind to send in our show today while we're going to show you a little bit how we rehearse you know we're going to do a little vocal rehearsal and we're learning some new things today we're going to actually integrate technology with our music we have computer programs where we download tracks at the tracks with pro tools and learning software and then the kids actually perform along with them which is really cool so we're kind of bring  these are well these are professionals that we started this last year we had a christmas show at higher ground last year and i decided to ask some of my professional musician friends in the area if they'd like to join us for a few songs you know on stage and it was really neat the minute they came in for the rehearsal a lot of the kids in the band of had not heard or played with the professionals like that and the minute they heard these people play you know they kind of stepped up their game and said well you know we need to really practice so i think it's great for the younger generation to you know perform along with the you know generation that's been around for a while and that's what they do you know the pros are an excellent addition to  always cool well i basically head up the drum department or teach in drums here and i work with students and they want to come in and play starter from the ground up and try to guide them to a point where they can you know play so i can be playing with anybody around town whether it be anybody from you know bob stan or the people downtown playing in some club or you know doing some big show higher ground and really the whole gamut so beautiful and how do you really believe with a gun ban it's great i mean you know it's a different thing it's a different kind of world than that and you know doing clubs or even even touring work the interesting thing is that i'm working with younger people maybe some that you know don't really know but you know working with younger people is a different kind of mindset and and but they act like professionals and it's really really great to watch them grow as as players and musicians and singers you know i told the story before you know if if you had asked me two years ago you know what i watch would i be performing with middle schoolers i would have told you were on your mind but you know they really are amazing amazing musicians so it's really not that much of a stretch from playing with regular pros around town to play and playing with these kids and they're very very talented and they have a passion for it so you know i don't really find it to be too difficult you know so now we're going to you julie one piece of the