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    Live jazz life: obscurity and poverty.
    Death: Good career move.

    David

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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....

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhoderick
    Hello.
    These take some believing but I have it on good authority that they were correct...
    The Nazis' 10 Control-Freak Rules for Jazz Performers: A Strange List from World War II | Open Culture




    Music is the key that can open strange rooms in the house of memory.
    Llewelyn Wyn Griffith


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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-dont-sweat-small-stuff-jpg

    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

    Basic rules in Jazz-th-jpg

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
    Nah, you got it all wrong- the most basic, THE basic rule is make sure you get paid!
    the first time I read this I thought you said "make sure you get laid" which would be a pretty nice rule too...

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    Quote Originally Posted by lawson-stone
    the first time I read this I thought you said "make sure you get laid" which would be a pretty nice rule too...
    Haha, it's always a nice bonus!

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Stevebol
    Go to school. Read a lot of music. Don't get on the bad side of musicologists and teachers.
    I went to school, it was ok. But they don't really teach jazz the correct way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor
    get it on Kid Charlemagne





    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Litterick




    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
    But can we sue you if you play too long?

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Vladan
    Do it like a confident dragon!
    I like the implication that you get timid dragons

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    Quote Originally Posted by christianm77
    I like the implication that you get timid dragons
    omg this my absolute FAVORITE as a little kid: