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Originally Posted by Roberoo
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05-10-2019 10:04 PM
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Sure...but man it is so close to reality. That said, my Italo-Canadian friends had a lot of fun teasing me about being a mangiacake (look it up) and that was close to reality too.
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His father was a scientist in the defence industry. I doubt they were poor.
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Originally Posted by Alter
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
Basic economics, supply and demand.
High demand for jazz education, many people want to learn to play. Not many people are willing to pay for the nusic.
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
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Originally Posted by greveost
If you ever go to Berklee you'll learn music history, including the history of rock, although you could just read that stuff.
You play very nicely BTW. As well as you play you should upload a full song that goes from start to finish. If you don't have a band just use a backing track with something more than drums, or better yet play an unaccompanied solo guitar piece.
Berklee - and every other college - will require that you do that each and every time you perform, other than short ideas in a private lesson. Anything that is performance related in front of humans beyond your teacher? Full song.
What do you say?
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Originally Posted by greveost
Exactly what 99% of the public is saying.
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Originally Posted by Jazzstdnt
I was unfortunately never interested in solo guitar playing
I also happens to know theory
About Zappa, well, it was a joke
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Seriously though, the quality of young players now never ceases to amaze me. Nice one dude.
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Originally Posted by greveost
So it wasn't actually such an obvious joke to me.
Re: Solo guitar- it doesn't interest me as much as ensemble playing either, but wait until you find yourself on a gig in the position of having to do it in public because the sax player's fast food choices are catching up with them.
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Zappa loved jazz and he played with some of great jazz muscicians in ex. J.L.Ponty or G.Duke.Great staff.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
Actually, I am mainly interested in stuff from the 60's, 70's, 80's 90's and forward when it comes to Jazz, rock, fusion etc.
Originally Posted by christianm77
Originally Posted by christianm77
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Originally Posted by greveost
Another thought - the Guitar IS a solo instrument that adapts to large ensemble formats.
Anyway, you're pretty close to playing solo guitar on these recordings. You just need and intro, accompaniment of other instruments and/or voices, and an ending to make a complete musical statement/performance. Some variation in compositional sections is useful too.
I'm quite sure that you can do it - so - if you're seeking feedback about your playing on the world wide web you should fully engage the listener by playing a complete musical performance. You might be surprised at the difference in feedback between an impressive excerpt and a full performance.
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Originally Posted by Litterick
The real racket in education is outside the instutitons, in the student loan business, which which schools are of course complicit.
Also: Berklee doesn't just teach jazz, right? So this $7.3M is not coming out of the jazz economy, but from the total music economy. Right?
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
My experience is that many, maybe most people, aren't paying full tuition. I got a modest scholarship to the new school, and I was/am an unremarkable but competent player. I went to the new school after I got an undergrad degree, in computer science, and worked as a software engineer while I went to music school part time, and was able to pay my tuition bill with money from my day job. I couldn't have done this without my (modest) scholarship.
I knew many, many people with similar scholarship stories. I suspect very few people pay the sticker price for music school.Last edited by pcsanwald; 05-13-2019 at 04:18 PM.
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Originally Posted by Jazzstdnt
I was never really into Vai, but I do understand his importance for a certain style of playing.
Originally Posted by Jazzstdnt
I like to practice and also jam/play with only drums sometimes. And sometimes of course add a bass as well. So it is all intentional. Playing duo with a real drummer is of course much better though.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
I earned a Master's in theology because it interests me. I'm never going to use it. I'm actually looking at going back and finishing my music degree too, even though I'll never be a full time musician again.
You get out of a degree exactly what you put into it. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts as a string bass performance major. I took every class available related to playing, played in all of the ensembles that I could, played in as many of the local orchestras as I could, played in as many recitals as I could, performed duets with other people when I had time. I was up every morning at 6:30, rarely went to bed before midnight. My playing was exponentially better after a year. I knew other people there that did the absolute minimum to get by and they sounded about the same after a year.
If you don't get anything out of a degree program, blame yourself, not the program.
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Originally Posted by hogrider16Originally Posted by hogrider16
It's to the contrary, If you have the means to take a few years off to immerse yourself in music full-time you'll probably have a blast in school. But if you are going to school to study jazz and get in debt in the hopes that it's a career investment in music, you're probably dreaming. There is no contradiction here, those two things can be true at the same time.
It's basically what Bruce Foreman eloquently talks about here, starting around 20:00:
LJS 10: Interview With Bruce Forman - Learn Jazz Standards
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Originally Posted by Tal_175
I can say that independent of jazz guitar.be there definitely is a movement in America to dismiss the value of a college degree. An educated electorate is a politicians worst nightmare.
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Originally Posted by hogrider16
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Originally Posted by Tal_175
KA PAF info please
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