Moving Forward

Gregg Ellis

I think this can be a non-polical helpful thread. The question is "How have your teachers/mentors and playing peers helped or hindered your growth". From the begining
to the advanced my favorite and most productive "lesson" has been when my instructor
and I jam and then he gives me feedback. Also, when I play gigs I will ask my bandmembers
How I did or what I could do better,etc....As far as my major hinderence it is when players
don't listen to each other during solos...
 
Gregg

Dave Woods

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregg Ellis" <greggsguitars@...>
To: <jazz_guitar@...>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 9:26 PM
Subject: [jazz_guitar] Moving Forward

The question is "How have your teachers/mentors and playing peers helped or hindered your growth".

Lennie Tristano was a huge influence on me.  He helped me tremendously in some areas, but in one area Lennie really stunted my growth somewhat.

Lennie condemned practicing arpeggios.  On the piano, this makes sense because there's only one way to play any note within a given octave register.
All you have to do is arpeggiate the block chords that fall under your hands and you're effectively putting chord tones into your melodic lines.
He was a very strong personality and he really socked this idea into my head.
However, this approach doesn't work for a guitar player.
on guitar practicing arpeggios every possible way is vitally important, because there's so many different ways to play the same note in every octave register..

Dave Woods   www.musictolight.org

Chris Smart

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For me, very useful was my teacher getting me to sing what I was improvising.  It forces you to choose notes wisely, slow down, stop for a breath, etc. If you're like me though, very self-conscious about playing not to mention any vocal noises, it felt like torture at the time!

Chris

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