Post by Matt on Nov 29, 2003 12:43:40 GMT -5
My name is Matt Mueller and I am also a young player as some of the others on this forum (Shawn). Im 15 and ive been playing guitar since I was 9. I live in Iowa City, Iowa, which is a good musical and cultural town for not being very big. I started jazz seriously about 6 months ago or less. I already knew how to read and a lot of theory when i started, because unlike most people I learned standard notation when I first started.
I started learning classical about a year ago and I think that helped me a lot with jazz.
Right now I have this really weird russian classical guitar teacher who teaches without music and he is very different than most other teachers. He is rare in that he tries to teach me to play with emotion and he doesnt care about technique. He criticizes people who play fast passages but dont use emotion. And best of all he always gives me little guitar-philosophy things and says crazy things like
"The guitar has a beauty in how quiet it is... If stood up next to a cello it can not be heard but people have sympathy for it."
"The guitar is an illusion. We cannot control the volume of a note, all we can do is pluck the next note relative to the previous to make the illusion of dynamics."
And I am taking jazz lessons from a pretty well known and in demand musician in my area and I think he will make me very good.
Im also in the top jazz band at my high school and im playing in a choir jazz ensemble and I am a freshman. I also play trumpet in the low jazz band.
I dont know why I posted this. Well there is my life story
I started learning classical about a year ago and I think that helped me a lot with jazz.
Right now I have this really weird russian classical guitar teacher who teaches without music and he is very different than most other teachers. He is rare in that he tries to teach me to play with emotion and he doesnt care about technique. He criticizes people who play fast passages but dont use emotion. And best of all he always gives me little guitar-philosophy things and says crazy things like
"The guitar has a beauty in how quiet it is... If stood up next to a cello it can not be heard but people have sympathy for it."
"The guitar is an illusion. We cannot control the volume of a note, all we can do is pluck the next note relative to the previous to make the illusion of dynamics."
And I am taking jazz lessons from a pretty well known and in demand musician in my area and I think he will make me very good.
Im also in the top jazz band at my high school and im playing in a choir jazz ensemble and I am a freshman. I also play trumpet in the low jazz band.
I dont know why I posted this. Well there is my life story