Boogie Beau

Before January 2009 I had no previous musical background to speak of.  That’s when I decided to have a go at learning to play keyboard.   I’ve found I like learning those old pop songs of the 70 and 80′s I once danced to in the clubs. I also like visiting local clubs in the Toledo Ohio area to hear bands especially if they have a keyboardist in the group.  I’ll be blogging about some of the bands and musicians I come across.  

I don’t know exactly what drew me to it but I’ve developed a liking for Boogie and Blues piano type songs.   Thus I’ve selected the stage name Boogie Beau.   I’ve been learning how to play using Blues/Boogie style piano lessons.   Examples of boogie woogie piano playing are everywhere it seems on the Internet.   Also  I’ve purchased some online lessons, music theory books and have like 1000 bookmarks in my Internet browser to music sites on the net.    I’ll be blogging about some of the lesson books I’m using and Internet sites I frequent. 

At my age  I’ll never be a great keyboard player but I’ll have fun trying and pretending I am.   Being retired I have time to do things I always wanted to do when I was younger but found no time to do them.   Playing music was high on my list and now I’m on my way. I have a great keyboard rig set up you can read about on My Rig  page.    I do have aspirations of gigging in my own one man band show someday.   I’m steadily and slowing moving in that direction working a set of simple piano blues songs.

In 2010 I managed to release not one but two CDs which I’ve published and made available via CDBaby.com and other digital distributors.    The first CD titled “Cats Out”  was my learn how to record and publish a CD project.   The songs on “Cats Out” are shortish and as I mentioned I was learning the recording software and hardware as I created the songs.     The second CD titled ” Bluer Than My New Blue Jeans” has ten longish songs on it.   It shows off a bit what I’ve been able to learn piano playing wise in two years of trying.     Also I’ve gotten better at recording  audio, MIDI tracks and I managed to eliminate some nasty AC hum problems in my recording rig I had when I produced the first CD.   

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Scott Paul Haas
married,  born 1/10/1951
Resides: in Monclova Ohio which is a suburb of Toledo Ohio.
Education:  1977 Bowling Green State University B.S. , 1969 Rossford High School
Hobbies: windsurfing,  boogie woogie music  

Scott photos  2011

 Album Covers:

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Bluer Than My New Blue Jeans  
 CD front cover pdf        CD front inside pdf 

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Cats Out
CD front cover pdf   CD front inside pdf