Master the art of jazz guitar

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Friday, March 28, 2008

on mastering jazz guitar

Mastering the art of jazz guitar is very hard task.
Everyone that has tried to follow the path of the jazz guitarist know what i am saying here.

i am a young jazz musician based in vienna.
In the past several years i've gone through a lot of instructional material.
what i have found is, that there is actually very litte material out there that deals with the art of jazz guitar on an integral basis.
very few authors show us what the best way to adress all the different areas inside the microcosmos of jazz guitar like; technique, chord voicings, comping, sound and phrasing, would be.
some of the most important aspects of true jazz guitar playing like sound and phrasing are often completely left out, while there's way too much emphasis on scale theory. Jazz theory, although an important subject to learn, unfortunately becomes totally useless once the musician is out there and on stage.

There is virtually no integral method on the subject of mastering jazz guitar on the market.
This is why i've decided to create this blog: to share the insights i've gathered over the years, and show you the very few effective ways i've encountered to this day that really helped on my journey to master the instrument.