There are people on sz who are working a lot of gigs, who are giving others serious musical advice, who are getting involved in heated debates-- who post samples that are not professional. By professional I don't mean Michel Camilo and Oscar Peterson, I don't even mean top studio recording artists. i just mean very competent. I just mean professional. If you are busy doing a lot of gigs you are supposedly professional, no? I am all for encouraging people and all for civility in dialogue, and all for having all kinds of players at all levels participate on SZ. It just bugs me that those that represent themselves as pros don't sound to me like pros, and then they funfa and say things like "i wasn't really performing, just trying to demonstrate blah-blah-blah. Hey if you are a player you are a player, and you sound good-- you may make a mistake here and there, who doesn't, but you always sound like a pro.

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Miami Mo