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03-14-2010, 06:23 AM
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 Hello from Northern Virginia Hi Everybody, My name is Ed and I live in northern Virginia. I've been playing guitar for 20+ years and recently started building guitars. I started out playing rock and blues then bluegrass and celtic. Lately I've been playing around with Gypsy jazz and chord melody jazz. I look forward to exchanging info with you all. Regards, Ed     |
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03-14-2010, 10:05 AM
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 Welcome Ed, hope you will enjoy spending some time here along with a group of like-minded people! /R |
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03-15-2010, 04:50 PM
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 Hey Ed, welcome - I grew up in NoVa (Annandale to be exact). |
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03-15-2010, 07:07 PM
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| Hello from Ottawa, Canada Hello everyone. I have just joined this forum and am looking forward to participating. I have been visiting the Jazzguitar.be web site for about a year now, and find it extremely good. Dirk has created a tremendous resource for us all. I have been playing guitar from quite a while, mostly classical and instrumental versions of some classic rock, folk, country, and jazz standards. I play finger style, and sometimes develop my own arrangments (melody and accompaniment played together). I do this either by ear (for simple tunes) or by adapting sheet music that has the melody and chords. I find improvising jazz a challenge. It always comes out like blues - which I like, but want to expand my horizons. I have tried using Ted Greene's Single Note Soloing Vol.1, but can't seem to get his exercises working for me musically. Perhaps it's a bit too advanced for me at this point. I am planning to work through the Mickey Baker method, and use Michael Joyce's material as a supplement. Does anyone have any thoughts on the necessity/importance of learning a lot of scales (modal, bebop, altered, etc.)?  My uneducated guess is that scales should take up a minor portion of one's learning time. Surely, one can develop good improvization skills by creating lines consisting of chordal tones linked by in-between notes, found by ear. If this is wrong, I'm willing to listen to reason!  Regards, Alan Underdown |
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