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Live jazz life: obscurity and poverty.
Death: Good career move.
David
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09-02-2018 09:30 AM
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1.) Play any note wherever/whenever you want to and you can probably find a rule that allows it......that could be a good thing or a bad thing. Make a mistake? Do it again 4 bars later and the audience will think you did it on purpose and they're just not cool enough to understand why you did it.
2.) Don't get too far from the melody.
3.) Carry yourself in a professional manner and act like you're having fun whether you are or not. I don't really practice this one as I'm always pretty unemotional - I'd rather concentrate and play it correctly than make 'guitar faces' and show off.
4.) Try to play solo if at all possible - too much drama in dealing with others.
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1) Always agree the fee before the gig
2) Never be late
3) Don't be a jerk (in so far as you can help it)
4) Bring spare strings
5) Bring a spare cable
6) Buy an AER because singers always want you to have one
Anything else?
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1. Protect your ears.
2. If you're the leader, make sure the drummer and the bassist love each other.
3. Time feel is EVERYTHING.
4. Make sure everything you play actually improves the way the band sounds.
5. If you're the band leader, put every band member in a position to play his/her best.
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call everyone a cat
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I think I can can get behind rule #9....
Originally Posted by Rhoderick
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Don't play better than the guy that hired you... if you need the money!
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Anyone can play jazz. It's a 20 % notes and 80% the attitude of the mother....r who plays them.
Miles Davis.
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Nah, you got it all wrong- the most basic, THE basic rule is make sure you get paid!
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Basic rules in jazz would need to be concise and simple in order to apply them, but they would need to be complete, coherent, and rigorous within their scope (jazz, guitar in general, music in general) in order to represent their scope's domain, which means they would be complex and full of exceptions, qualifications, conditions... easily a dozen pages of text for each rule assuming an agreed consensus; and then there would need to be additional appendices of meta-rules that governed when and how these basic rules may be broken...
I don't think of jazz as rule based; music has always been regarded as the highest of the art forms because it is the most phenomenologically abstract - to the degree that music is representative, these representations are completely internally induced... this is the real compelling power, truth, and beauty of music.
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My sentiments exactly
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Whoever pays you to play jazz, makes the rules...
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Basic rule in jazz?
LISTEN!
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Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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Play your ass off no matter how much you dislike the tune.
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Be able to play what you can hum and hum what you can play.
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Originally Posted by Stevebol
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Originally Posted by Sailor
1. Learn to work the saxophone
2. Play just what you feel
3. Drink Scotch whisky all night long
4. And die behind the wheel
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Pat your foot.
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Originally Posted by Litterick
Anyway, those are great rules, and have inspired me to originate a few others:
crawl like a viper through suburban streets,
make love to women, languid and bittersweet,
rise when the sun goes down,
cover every game in town,
make the world your own, make it your home sweet home
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Do it like a confident dragon!
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I was going to say "take everything posted on a forum with a grain of salt" but then that advice would fall under the same umbrella !!! hmms talking about jazz stuff is more complicated than just listening too , hearing and enjoying it
Will
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Originally Posted by Vladan
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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