Any of y'all play jazz? I love this kind of music. I see a lot of blues players on here but not many jazzers. If you play this kind of music, share your expierience!

I love listening to jazz, but right now my jazz chops are pretty much non-existent. Jazz is definately something I want to learn how to play in near future.

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Sometimes....check out this for some great sounds :

http://www.jazzradio.com/

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Well, since my guitar instructor loves to play jazz, he's taught me and my fellow classmates how to play some jazz. I love playing it, but the chords make your fingers work!! I usually just do my scales and arpeggios, then go to bed, so I almost never have the time to practice the jazz chords.
I only have time enough to do my scales and stuff before I need to hit the sheets to wake up in five hours before school in the morning.

But this weekend I plan to do some serious woodshedding to make up for all of it.

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I play Jazz Trumpet & Sax. I started on guitar about 18 months ago. As soon as I'm good enough I plan to embarass the arrogant jerk playing guitar with our group now. Put him in his place, so to speak.

nah, I don't like Jazz. They're usually arrogant jerks who just want to try and embarrass somebody.

I love jazz , I had a chance to take instruction and perform with Wolf Marshall ,who is an outstanding jazz guitarist ,who is neither arrogant or a showoff ,It is a discriminating style of music and I can understand that perception even though flawed. I think jazz has alot to offer and most of our favorite guitarist have been inspired by jazz ,in all genre.IMHO.

My teacher has me learning jazz as part of practicing all of the theory I know and have learned. Jazz really stretches my musical ability and adapts a whole new style of playing into my improvisation. It isn't easy though. Playing a brand new song, playing all of the crazy chords, identifying if a chord is Dominant, Tonic, Minor, or Diminished chord while figuring out if the chord is a 2 or a 3 chord and also figuring out if you are in a major or minor key and remembering where it switches so you can switch keys when you solo. It's no easy stuff!

But, my teacher says that anybody who can get pretty good at jazz can be a monster at almost any other genre.

I know what you mean. Lots of mediocre players who are intimated or threatened by others with wide musical knowledge feel the same way.

I can play quite a bit of jazz, most of its made up on the spot, thats what makes it impressive.

If you really really want to play jazz to a good level, take a look at modes. jazz musicians tend to go right from one to the other and trow in alot of step notes to create that sound, not to mension alot of octaves.

most of all though, its rhythms, you have to be one the ball all the time and just develop a feel for it.

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

Jazz is a form dearly loved, here, but' 'do not play it complicated, mostly standards in own fairly straightforward flavour.

Dearly personally loved are the melodies, soulful tonalities, articulation, clarity. Liked are the lack of raucousness, anger. It's unmistakable, real music. Much in a way, parallel to classical, bluegrass, folk. Musical.

Like Gibson says in the ad where the man is walking onstage with a flat top in hand, "No distortion to cover your afs."

Dig it.

"Coming in out of the rain you hear the jazz go down...." (Mark Knopfler)

I guess I should have quoted the post right above mine to make the joke more obvious.

Jazz I love. Especialy Louis Jordan.

The difference between jazz and rock, 15000 people watching 5 people play 3 keys with 5 notes and 3 people watching 15 people play 1 key (Bb, its always Bb) with 24 notes

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Now, now, let us play nice together, so to speak.

Blessedly, this e-lounge's many attendees are of widely varied age, education, skill, interest, musical taste, maturity, spiritual, political, health, financial, geographical, national, ethnic origin...

...different "places" in our INDIVIDUAL life-journeys. One person's natural or highly-developed abilities or practiced or preferred skills / tastes may intimidate another, particularly if the observer is coming "from" a base of anger or fear or envy, all flavours of the same thing.

Relax, accept there are lots of items on the guitar-musical "menu," and some metaphorical dishes one can wolf down with glee will be of no interest or even distaste to others.

Life-experience truism; if you find yourself quickly, often reaching for the "anger" reaction to something, you might well be in a position to expand your breadth of thinking.

And more widely enjoy playing and e-talking about electric guitars.