--- In jazz_guitar@..., "stottunit"
I managed to quit smoking. How does one quit flakey practice
habits?
Easy. Just stop doing them.
Learn some tunes and play them. Learn one really good solo (either
trasncribed or off of a transcription) and keep playing it.
You don't have to throw anything out.
Just learn to play tunes and go back to all that material a little
at a time on an as needed basis when you want to.
The big mistake that I made and many people make is that in jazz
there is this 'hurdle' in terms of knowledge and skill you need to
achieve before you can play jazz...
This is why people end up practicing scales, arps and inversions for
years and still can't play anything that sounds remotely like
jazz...
Just switch around the priorities so that you spend most of your
time on learning tunes (or learning one tune really well) and other
people's solos.
Ken
