Too late to be a great jazz guitarist starting at 26 years old?

[RJVB]

Circling back to guitar then...

[DawgBone]

I can't stand it so I never work on it. I could play that basic noob piano style easily.

Post it up then. Should be no problem. Anytime someone says "______ kinda music is easy" I know I'm gonna watch someone fall on their face. People say it about blues all the time. I fix 'em right up and then they never get called back, not cause they suck at it, but because they said it was easy and then they suck at it.

[DawgBone]

If I'm coming off as a dick, it's cause I'm a bandleader, that's part of the gig sometimes.

"Mad at sidemen"

LOL

[Bobby Timmons]

Boogie woogie sux.

[pamosmusic]

Bobby’s extraordinary talents are wasted on all but the most impressive and musical of musical music.

[Bobby Timmons]

Yas

[Bobby Timmons]

To clarify, I like some stuff. That acoustic Stevie clip you posted DB I thought was awesome. I really like the old pure blues piano playing from the 30s or 40s or so from boogie players but at slower tempos. I don't like cheesy noob piano boogie. I won't even watch it.

Stuff like this I think is great:

[starjasmine]

solo guitar really isn't jazz...

Sorry, can't get behind that one...

[wintermoon]

Boogie woogie sux.

[DawgBone]

Boogie woogie sux.

You said it was easy, which means you don't respect it, and as a result also means you can't play it well. "Mad at bandleaders".

[DawgBone]

There is no "easy" music.

[Ukena]

There is no "easy" music.

Perhaps not, but there is definitely some music that is easier to play than other music. Even some types of music that are easier than other types.

And some instruments are easier to get started on than others. A five-year-old can play one note on a piano as well as Lang Lang, but it takes weeks for a beginning oboist just to get a sound out. When I was 7 and starting piano lessons, my teacher played the left hand part while I played the melody. Two lessons later I played both parts, because I missed the accompaniment while I was practicing. I was nowhere near being a prodigy.

To master any instrument takes an equal amount of time and dedication.

[Bobby Timmons]

I don't like boogie woogie and you can't make me.

[DawgBone]

Perhaps not, but there is definitely some music that is easier to play than other music. Even some types of music that are easier than other types.

Which music is easier to play? What types are easierr?

[DawgBone]

I don't like boogie woogie and you can't make me.

You can't play it well.

[Bobby Timmons]

Why would I have to play a music style well to disapprove of it?

[pamosmusic]

I don't like boogie woogie and you can't make me.

Going out on a limb, I don’t think anyone cares if you like it or not.

[Bobby Timmons]

DB seems to.

[pamosmusic]

Why would I have to play a music style well to disapprove of it?

Because you said it’s easy and the lowest form of piano.

That’s money where your mouth is kind of talk.

[DawgBone]

Why would I have to play a music style well to disapprove of it?

Because you dissed it by implying it was easy. At it's root it is simplistic but to play it well it isn't. You can't play it well, so I don't need proof you can't.

[Bobby Timmons]

I personally think it's a really poor representation of one's self as a pianist. I would never want to do that as if it were good. Me personally. Of course there is depth to the style and skilled good players at it.

[DawgBone]

DB seems to.

I'm only suggesting that in the future you refrain from casually dismissing what others have invested a lifetime into.

Being a security guard is easy.

[pamosmusic]

Perhaps not, but there is definitely some music that is easier to play than other music. Even some types of music that are easier than other types.

And some instruments are easier to get started on than others. A five-year-old can play one note on a piano as well as Lang Lang, but it takes weeks for a beginning oboist just to get a sound out. When I was 7 and starting piano lessons, my teacher played the left hand part while I played the melody. Two lessons later I played both parts, because I missed the accompaniment while I was practicing. I was nowhere near being a prodigy.

To master any instrument takes an equal amount of time and dedication.

yeah different instruments and styles have different learning curves.

Like it’s hard to learn to play the changes even on Autumn Leaves, and it’s easy to learn a twelve bar blues and play the intro to the thrill is gone, but after that the learning curve gets way steeper in blues music.

It’s easy to learn Wildwood Flower but I’m not convinced it’s significantly easier to be Molly Tuttle than like … Dan Wilson.

EDIT: for the record, the intro to The Thrill is Gone is a perfect specimen. So no shade on that. It just also happens to be so brilliantly simple that anyone can play it. Nobody did until BB did, obvs.

[pamosmusic]

I personally think it's a really poor representation of one's self as a pianist. I would never want to do that as if it were good. Me personally. Of course there is depth to the style and skilled good players at it.

Well if you like boogie woogie then I think it would be a pretty good representation of yourself as a pianist.

[Bobby Timmons]

I'm only suggesting that in the future you refrain from casually dismissing what others have invested a lifetime into.