My wife is almost always the first person to hear a song once I’ve finished writing it. After hearing “Small Doses” for the first time, she asked with sweet sincerity if I’d been considering seeing a therapist and thus planted the seed for what would become the title of the album and the ensemble. I suppose the song also has a lot to do with why I created Some Professional Help in the first place; I don’t want anyone to be exposed too much of each other, especially too much of me.

Ben Bernstein- Bass
Hamilton Ulmer-guitar
Andrew Maguire- percussion
Scott Alexander- Vocals, guitars, bassoon

Loosing my stomach for rejection
It’d go down easier, if i could just changer perspective And see the smiling faces when they’re smiling back at me And not the ghosts their absence leaves.
It’s clear that you can love me.
We both surely know this.
But only can you love me if you love me in small doses.
My invitations are all decently received and I can now accept that few are ever sent to me. But I won’t be throwing any pity party
Oh, I know that it’s nothing personal.
In my life, you want to play a role,
but you rather would be cast as a cheerful cameo.
I’ve been on the other end of this sticky situation.
Your company is nourishing but I rarely find the craving.
And no matter how sweet you are to me
I’ll pass then times out of thirteen
And opt to count the lonely hours tasting my own medicine Which is really not so bitter if you find a way to notice
That I’m so fricken fond of you when I find you in small doses.
Instead of feeling sad
I’ll just be grateful for what I have.
Rather than wracked by guilt
Don’t give it a second thought.
Just take the love you’ve got and savor it with me.
I will not stop you when you leave.
Whatever piece that you tear off me you can keep.
I ain’t gonna loose my mind waiting to heal.
I’m sure that I’ll be fine if you keep your end of the deal. There is nothing in this world that’s more potent than to know Even if the feeling comes or even easier still goes
I will survive on your love
Even if it’s a small dose.

Some Professional Help

Small Doses

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Scott Alexander studied bassoon performance at the Peabody Conservatory of music. In addition to his songwriting, he is a busy bassoon teacher and freelancer, having recorded with notable bands as The Deerhunter, and Beats Antique. 

Each of these six songs were recorded with a completely different band assembled by Scott Alexander featuring members of some of the Bay Area's best bands and orchestras.

This song features Scott Alexander on vocals and bassoon

Never There (For bassooning and Crooning)

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Nadja (Nadezhda) Von Meck was a Russian business woman who supported PyotrTchaikovsky financially for thirteen years, so that he could devote himself full-time to composition, while stipulating that they were never to meet. They carried on a significant correspondence, exchanging over 1,200 letters between 1877 and 1890. The details they shared were extraordinary for two people who never met. He was more open to her about much of his life and his creative processes than to any other person.

Each of these six songs were recorded with a completely different band assembled by Scott Alexander featuring members of some of the Bay Area's best bands and orchestras.

This song features:
Will Magid- trumpet
Brian Adam McCune- percussion
Amanda Wu- bass
Scott Alexander- vocals and guitar

Nadja

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Originally written for a theater production, this song is about Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Who along with Otto Hahn, led the small group of scientists who first discovered nuclear fission. Meitner received many awards and honors late in her life, but she did not share in the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for nuclear fission that was awarded exclusively to her long-time collaborator Otto Hahn. 

Each of these six songs were recorded with a completely different band assembled by Scott Alexander featuring members of some of the Bay Area's best bands and orchestras.

This song features:
Ben Einstein- piano
David Möschler- bass
Lily Sevier- percussion
Scott Alexander- vocals and guitar

Lise Meitner

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Each of these six songs were recorded with a completely different band assembled by Scott Alexander featuring members of some of the Bay Area's best bands and orchestras.

This song features:
Sage Baggott- drums
Van jackson-Weaver- bass
Scott Alexander- vocals and guitar

In My Place

Each of these six songs were recorded with a completely different band assembled by Scott Alexander featuring members of some of the Bay Area's best bands and orchestras.

This song features:
Daniel Blum- drums
Rick Corrigan- accordion 
Corey Johnson- mandolin
Lewis Patzner- cello
Scott Alexander- vocals and guitar

Some Professional Help

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