Right – onto the most difficult form of music to play (in my humble opinion) – not because of technique exactly but because though you can take this to any level – but because with other styles you can ‘get away’ with not knowing the note scales and chord patterns much more easily – even wth hard-core classical music which is generally all straight up and down major and minors – it can be done (or at least approximated) with time and practice.<\/p>\n
But jazz – I guarantee when you listen to it and try and play it for the first time – you unless you have been listening to it from a young age you will be baffled as to what on earth the musicians are doing – specifically how they are combining seemingly impossibly complex melodies – over the top of what are seemingly impossibly complex chords and sequences!<\/p>\n
But there IS hope if like me you are not a music reader, when you know that there is some leeway in jazz to play the wrong stuff – yeas you heard it right – the wrong stiff – in between playing the right stuff. This can work if you are a non-reader like me especially if you fall or ‘land’ on the right note after what I call tumbling down the stairs’! Now – if you can learn the jazz music theory then even better – you are well on your way to doing what at first can sound sonically impossible!<\/p>\n
Of course there are novices like me and players that really know their music theory and only play the right notes but as mentioned – beginners can get a way with a surprising amount with a little jazz knowledge. Anyway – enough of me – here Simon Smith gives an introduction to playing jazz – I hope you enjoy it and subscribe to his guitar playing jazz channel.<\/p>\n