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mellowsun · May 2015

GuyBoden said:

There's some players who want to play "JAZZ", but never listen to any Jazz music. I find this very puzzling..............

I can kind of understand this. Perhaps those people want to know more about creating interesting harmonies and extended/altered chords but find most music classified as 'jazz' tedious to listen to.

tbh I am a bit like that. The sort of music played on Jazz record requests on Radio 3 and big band stuff, can't stand it.

GuyBoden · May 2015

mellowsun said:

GuyBoden said:

There's some players who want to play "JAZZ", but never listen to any Jazz music. I find this very puzzling..............

I can kind of understand this. Perhaps those people want to know more about creating interesting harmonies and extended/altered chords but find most music classified as 'jazz' tedious to listen to.

tbh I am a bit like that. The sort of music played on Jazz record requests on Radio 3 and big band stuff, can't stand it.

Yeah, the modern stuff is best.

ROOG · May 2015

Dam, there was me thinking this thread may have the answers to my prayers.

Clarky · May 2015

mellowsun said:

GuyBoden said:

There's some players who want to play "JAZZ", but never listen to any Jazz music. I find this very puzzling..............

I can kind of understand this. Perhaps those people want to know more about creating interesting harmonies and extended/altered chords but find most music classified as 'jazz' tedious to listen to.

tbh I am a bit like that. The sort of music played on Jazz record requests on Radio 3 and big band stuff, can't stand it.

I'm not a jazz fan either… just not my thing…

that said, I love Gypsy Jazz when it's done well..

it has this wonderful cheeky quality.. vibrant and fun..

but under all that is a level of musicianship that's absolutely 1st class

PolarityMan · May 2015

Clarky said:

no matter what you want to play well, classical, shred, jazz, country... anything really..
there's no short cut.. and each style is pretty much a lifestyle in its own right..
plus.... there are very few players multi-discipline players that are serious masters of jazz and metal shred and country etc..
the only one I can think of that can is Guthrie... he's one of a kind and should be in the circus cos he ain't normal...

I've never heard him play convincing actual metal. It's always that shreddy variation on metal.

viz · May 2015

Anyone else watch Wynton Marsalis last night? It was wonderful.

bigjon · May 2015

ROOG said:

Dam, there was me thinking this thread may have the answers to my prayers.

Close, the thread you're looking for is here

The Universal All-Purpose Jazz Chord -

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/30832/chord-of-the-week-3-1-15-the-universal-all-purpose-jazz-chord

GuyBoden · May 2015

bigjon said:

ROOG said:

Dam, there was me thinking this thread may have the answers to my prayers.

Close, the thread you're looking for is here
The Universal All-Purpose Jazz Chord -
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/30832/chord-of-the-week-3-1-15-the-universal-all-purpose-jazz-chord

No you're wrong, this is the only chord you need for Jazz:

Clarky · May 2015

PolarityMan said:

Clarky said:

no matter what you want to play well, classical, shred, jazz, country... anything really..
there's no short cut.. and each style is pretty much a lifestyle in its own right..
plus.... there are very few players multi-discipline players that are serious masters of jazz and metal shred and country etc..
the only one I can think of that can is Guthrie... he's one of a kind and should be in the circus cos he ain't normal...

I've never heard him play convincing actual metal. It's always that shreddy variation on metal.

I know what you mean.. but then metal ain't really his thing I guess..

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