Celeb Interview! Eban Brown, The Stylistics

Eban Brown is former lead singer for The Stylistics and had an amazing international career with them. He continues to tour world-wide. In the UK, he has a particularly close relationship with The Big Sing, founded by Howard Francis (another The Maestro Online masterclass creator).
Eban’s dad was a musician and he started learning from up at the age of 4 or 5. Eban saw his dad as being really cool! He began as a bass player, later became a guitarist and was randomly thrown into vocals! He then grew up as a church musician. Eban’s first big break was wtih Ray Goodman and Brown. He began as their guitarist, but before he’d even done a show, they put him on vocals.
Eban knew from an early stage that music was his destiny, but recognised that he had to persist. His friends, The Spinners, worked for 17 years before they had their first break.
Eban describes Django Reinhardt as the master guitarist of all of us! Eban has, and still does, admire and learned from others.
Eban believes that he’s developed a toolkit for his learning over the years, that he has a bag of tools that he’s developed. He describes his unique style as “The Eban Brown Machine”.
Eban’s Biggest Career Highlights
Eban’s biggest career highlights are many. His 4 main groups that he’s grown with are:
Ray Goodman and Brown
The Manhattans
The Delphonics
The Stylistics (for 18 years up until 2018)
One of the most significant moments of Eban’s career is when he wrote a song for Great Ormond Street. He’s always wanted to help others and he believes that, in the business, there’s an unwritten rule that you must reach out and touch someone else. His key career highlights are:
Writing a song with all proceeds to Great Ormond Street
Performing Solo at Wembley
Performing in Echo Arena Liverpool
Performing in NEC Birmingham
Recording with Tavares, Sister Sledge and others that he grew up admiring
Eban’s Advice on How to Practice
Concentrate on one thing at a time
Know your fret board, know chord names and individual note names too
Lock one thing in at a time.

Eban demonstrates how he would play bass and his dad would play chords with a funky strumming pattern. He dubbed it “My Father’s Groove” which has a particular “chopping” (strumming) pattern and recorded it on one of his albums.
He then uses a Blues example to show how he uses several types of D chords, which is a core element to his masterclass.
Eban’s advice to upcoming musicians:
1. Create songs that you can sing for the rest of your life. You won’t outgrow good music.
2. “Don’t make nothing that your mother can’t listen to.”
3. Educate yourselves and stay steadfast. Stick to it no matter what.
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