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New guy ..I've been reading for about a year
Hi all I'm new to the forum and JAZZ guitar and should introduce myself at this time.
... well basically I'm in my 47th year and I stink at jazz guitar and don't even have a proper Jazz guitar yet..I use an old beat-up wore Tele style but I'm slowly getting some sweet jazz parts down. I've been studying enough to do a couple nice chord melodies and tough chord progressions. I always could improvise blues and rock in a kinda of wild abandonment that mosttimes works but I can't always reproduce it. That is why I love chord Melody stuff because it forces me to keep the music flow the same way ...current listening to The Cole Porter Songbook Volume one with Ella Fitzgerald ..top notch stuff! My favourite guitar players are all who play one...and two guys named Greene I believe music has just two styles... good or bad. Technically I need a lot of work before I can gig as a solo jazzman..I'll post something soon ...this is my goal. I'll try to live up to the great work and insights of this site. John Amato's site () has been very helpful..and I enjoy your playing John. I'm looking for a good practise schedule now. Here are my list of standards I've chose.... Standards List -Satin Doll -Green Sleeves -Home on the range -Moon Light in Vermont -Shenandoah -Love me Tender -Sunny -Sleep Walk -What a Wonderful World -Stella in the Starlight Thanks David |
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Welcome, I think you may enjoy hanging out here, and participating, too. I look forward to hearing some of your stuff. I've been playing guitar "professionally" for about 35 years, and nobody's ever asked for "Home On the Range", but, I could probably get through it, and in a chord melody, to boot... :{) Cheers, JV Juan Vega -----Original Message-----
From: guitarbuilger <davidp@...> To: jazz_guitar <jazz_guitar@...> Sent: Wed, Nov 17, 2010 7:26 pm Subject: [jazz_guitar] New guy ..I've been reading for about a year Hi all I'm new to the forum and JAZZ guitar and should introduce myself at this time. ... well basically I'm in my 47th year and I stink at jazz guitar and don't even have a proper Jazz guitar yet..I use an old beat-up wore Tele style but I'm slowly getting some sweet jazz parts down. I've been studying enough to do a couple nice chord melodies and tough chord progressions. I always could improvise blues and rock in a kinda of wild abandonment that mosttimes works but I can't always reproduce it. That is why I love chord Melody stuff because it forces me to keep the music flow the same way ...current listening to The Cole Porter Songbook Volume one with Ella Fitzgerald ..top notch stuff! My favourite guitar players are all who play one...and two guys named Greene I believe music has just two styles... good or bad. Technically I need a lot of work before I can gig as a solo jazzman..I'll post something soon ...this is my goal. I'll try to live up to the great work and insights of this site. John Amato's site () has been very helpful..and I enjoy your playing John. I'm looking for a good practise schedule now. Here are my list of standards I've chose.... Standards List -Satin Doll -Green Sleeves -Home on the range -Moon Light in Vermont -Shenandoah -Love me Tender -Sunny -Sleep Walk -What a Wonderful World -Stella in the Starlight Thanks David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
Hey Juan, I played a solo jazz guitar gig where they loved my playing,
but their biggest requests were for some Roy Rogers songs. It was at a private residence and they produced the sheet music, so I needed to come up with chord melodies on the spot. I don't recall too much about the night after that, except that they tipped me a couple hundred dollars! David, if one of those Greenes is Ted, you know just how good a Tele can sound playing jazz. He's brilliant. Scott Dercks On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:30:49 -0500 (EST) JVegaTrio@... writes: ____________________________________________________________ Moms Asked to Return to School Grant Funding May Be Available to Those That Qualify. |
Welcome David. You landed in a good spot. Let us know how you are
doing. I'm pretty much a wannabe too and interested in chord melody too. `know about 99centguitarlessons.com? Go there and click on jazz, never mind here's the link go to the btm of the page and click on the utube link. It's mostly beginner and intermediate stuff. It's video lessons w/printed material i.e. charts usually, sometimes practice tracks they live on your hard drive and you cannot beat the price anywhere. The .99 is a come on but there really are lessons for that but the good stuff starts at 3.99 up to about 24.99 for longer more involved stuff. The vids feel like having your great jazzer uncle come over and show your stuff. Check out the class on Summer Time in block chords. Pretty nice. And it pushed me to figure out some alternative changes in some places. He keeps using the same device over three eight bar sections. I figure he's trying to keep it simple to fit into the time frame. But these are juicy sounding chords not just minors and dominants. If the first four bars don't grab you try a different class there are tons aimed at expanding chord knowledge as well as soloing. And no it's not my Dad, I'm as old as he is. Just think it's a good deal. I grew up in a farm environment too. Dairy, Germans, those folks know what to do with dairy products! yeeoowwww. But I have read diet for a small planet forty years ago and today it is even more relevant. The way we do agribiddniss is a danger to global security. Really. Ron Living and playing outside the box. |
steve
--- In jazz_guitar@..., JVegaTrio@... wrote:
Welcome, I think you may enjoy hanging out here, and participating, too. I look forward to hearing some of your stuff. I've been playing guitar "professionally" for about 35 years, and nobody's ever asked for "Home On the Range", ...Juan, I was at a Joe Pass concert and someone requested "Red River Valley". He played the head in a corny country way and then played the crap out of it for several minutes. Wish they had recorded that. Steve |
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