This episode of The Music Mind Podcast features Emile Nelson, one of Australia's leading electric bass guitar players.

Emile has played bass professionally for almost his entire life. He has built a reputation as one of Australia's top pop, rock and commercial live performance musicians having further toured and recorded with the A list of entertainers.

For many years, Emile has been the working bass player in Glenn Shorrock's band. Glenn was the former lead singer in the highly successful rock group, The Little River Band.

Emile has also performed with leading Australian and international artists such as Delta Goodrem, The Euroglyders, Marcia Hines, Petula Clarke, Taylor Dayne, Human Nature and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

This conversation covers a wide range of topics including the importance of learning to play songs, being able to read standard music notation, being versatile, understanding the recording studio environment and taking opportunities when they present themselves.

For the music collaboration on this episode, Emile chose a great jazz standard written by Freddie Hubbard titled 'The Little Sunflower'. The collaboration features Emile on electric bass guitar with Brian Hayes on jazz flute.

You can reach out and connect with Emile on Instagram @emilenel6

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This episode of The Music Mind Podcast features Nicolas Bernier, an 18 year old arranger, trumpeter and pianist based in Montreal, Canada.

Nicolas may well be one of the most talented 18 year old musicians in the business. Having only played trumpet seriously for four years you will see and hear him play astoundingly mature lead trumpet parts throughout the podcast, including playing the late, great trumpet legend Maynard Ferguson's lead chart for the Star Trek Theme.

Having played piano since he was seven years old, you will also get to see and hear Nicolas play some challenging classical piano pieces.

A self taught arranger, the multi trumpet parts you will enjoy in this podcast have all been arranged by Nicolas.

This conversation covers a wide range of topics including the importance of focusing on what it is that you want to do in life, the physical challenges of playing the trumpet, how learning the piano and developing classical technique has helped him to play jazz, being versatile and understanding the recording and video home studio environments.

For the music collaboration on this episode, Nicolas chose a great jazz standard written in 1931 titled 'Beautiful Love'. The collaboration features Nicolas on trumpet with Brian Hayes on tenor saxophone.

You can reach out and connect with Nicolas at https://www.nicbernier.com

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This episode of The Music Mind Podcast features Brett Garsed, one of Australia's leading electric guitarists.

Brett has played guitar professionally for almost his entire life. He has built a reputation as one of Australia's top pop, rock and commercial studio musicians having further toured in Australia and the USA with A list entertainers.

For many years, Brett was the lead guitarist for John Farnham, Australia's most successful pop singer. This included playing on Farnham's album 'Whispering Jack' which sold over 1.7 million copies and remains the highest selling album ever by an Australian artist in Australia.

Brett also toured and recorded with Nelson, a successful rock band based in the USA headlined by the two Nelson twins, the sons of rock and TV legend, the late Rick Nelson.

This conversation covers a wide range of topics including the importance of getting a good teacher, learning to play songs, being able to read standard music notation, being versatile, understanding the home recording studio environment and taking opportunities when they present themselves.

For the music collaboration on this episode, Brett wrote a beautiful original piece of music called 'Together'. The collaboration features Brett on electric lead guitar with Brian Hayes on slide dobro.

You can reach out and connect with Brett at www.brettgarsed.com

For further information on The Music Mind Podcast or to connect with Brian Hayes go to https://www.BrianHayes.biz.

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