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Post by Newbie on Nov 9, 2004 3:29:17 GMT -5
Who are the artists that you can recommend for a beginning jazz guitarist?
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Post by allblues on Nov 9, 2004 5:56:25 GMT -5
When you listen to a guitarist, it is important to understand what he plays and how he plays. My simple suggestion is to listen the historical guitarists starting from Wes Montgomery on.
So it is important to know (of course Montgomery) Jimmy Raney, Kenny Burrell, Pat Martino, George Benson. Your goal is to learn something from each of these guitarists.Just as an example: from Montgomery you will learn to play a maj7 scale over a minor 7 chord, or the use of dominant superimposion, from Martino you will learn the use of the minor scales in a major 12 bar blues, for example. And so on.
The way is long, very long. But very exciting!
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Post by Professor1 on Nov 9, 2004 19:25:36 GMT -5
Who are the artists that you can recommend for a beginning jazz guitarist? Are we talking 'beginning guitarist' or 'beginning jazz' ?? Because it's an important difference. Jazz is not an area for novice players, because it demands that you already know all of your basics very well.....a walk-before-you-run thing. I recommend listening to as much stuff as you can, unless you already have something in particular in mind. Jazz covers a wide range of styles from ragtime to rock fusion. Try out some Joe Pass to bend your ear. There's also an album he did as duets with Roy Clarke right before Joe died. |
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mahayana
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Post by mahayana on Nov 10, 2004 6:51:02 GMT -5
Hey, Newbie.
Glad to have you here, hope you checked the "wish to be notified of replies" box so you know you 're getting feedback!
To your question, this is what Mickey Baker said in 1955:
"It is impossible for anyone to teach you to feel music, that is, to stand up and play solos one after another. This has to come from your soul. Now, in order to develop a soul for music, these are the things you must do constantly. Practice playing your guitar with records, listen to solos by horn players, learn to steal solos from records. Anything that you hear another musician play, try to play it yourself. Strum the chords to any song you like and hum ideas- then apply the ideas to the guitar. This will be hard to do at first and some of it may sound silly, but if you keep doing this long enough you will develop an ear for music, and once you have an ear you'll be stealing solos from everybody and building your own around them."
One of my favorite horn players to play along with is Stanley Turrentine. Mellow tenor sax, and most of his recordings don't have a guitar player, so it's like you're sitting in, hah! Keep on playing and you'll get better, this ain't rocket surgery...
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