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Why Playing Jazz Makes You a Better Guitar Player?
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2023-06-04
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Guest Post by Paul Mills
Jazz is like a game. To play it you need to know the rules. Everyone are saying that jazz is about improvisation, and in a way, it is. But in order to know how to play (and when is written play, think of it as a play of the board game game) you need to learn the rules.
Jazz is not about imitating solo of Wes Montgomery or Django Reinhardt. For sure, lot of the people could learn just from hearing the music and imitating the style. But jazz is much more then it, and this text will try to define why jazz makes of everyone a better musician, and what is needed to be done in order to achieve this advantage in skill.