Hey guys, how's it going? Scott here from Scottsbysessions.com and I'm back with another episode of the SBL podcast for you.

And today we've got the Mighty Dishan Abrams, who is one of London's Top Call Session plays.

He's played with guys like Leona Lewis, Kylie, the Sugar Babes.

He's probably a ton of artists and you're going to find out more about that in this

interview and you're going to find out about how he actually moved from Perth over in Australia,

that's where he's from, moved over to London and everything, you know, how he got onto the scene

in London and how he worked his way into the position he is now where he is a first called session guy.

Before we get into the interview, I also want to mention that we have just released,

or actually we're just about to release tomorrow, we're going to release a brand new course

into the Academy course library over at Scotts Bay Sessions.

It's the Reading Charts Survival Guide.

It's 19 super focused step-by-step lessons, over three hours of material.

And in terms of importance, it is right up there.

Tons of people ask me about, you know, reading notation, whether they should read

music or not. And my answer is always, well, it depends. It depends on, you know, what your

goals are, whether you want to be working in theatres and, you know, and that style of player or

that type of player getting those type of jobs or whether, you know, whether you don't want to do that. Maybe it's not, you know, not something't want to do that maybe it's not you know

not something you want to do there's plenty of guys out there that don't read notation and you know

and are doing great what i would say is that it's i do advise that everybody get some basic

reading skills down in terms of reading notation reading reading music, because it is a good skill to

have. But reading lead sheets, reading charts, that's a completely different story. They are,

to be able to read charts and read lead sheet, it's an invaluable skill. So if you're not doing it

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