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Triple-o

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“A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges”. Session 18  

I recently started to spend more time  trying to understand just some simple jazz. Now that quote  makes a lot more sense. Before I let chords like  F13 ,Bbmaj13, Fm7 (jazz version) and A9 scare me away.Now  I realize how much jazz as to offer and how it can help one utilize the fret board  by juggling scales, arpeggios  and chord shapes using simple jazz Standards.

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Hi @Triple-o Congratulations on your progress to Session 18 in the Learn and Master Guitar course! This is an accomplishment in itself, as it's the very dedicated students who make it there.   I recall a quote (author unknown to me) about Jazz... "Jazz is... MORE".   What does this mean? Well, I found it means exactly that. More chords, more melodies, more harmonies, more scales, more arpeggios, and best of all, more Songs!  Don't let this intimidate you... its a wonderful world of discovery! Your guitar playing will start to sound like something special, something others will want to listen too!

In this area, and at this level, the best thing you can do for yourself and your guitar playing, especially Jazz, is; LEARN SONGS!  

Enjoy the ride!  All the Best for 2021; Neil

ps. You could also describe Jazz as "Colours" (Canadian spelling!) As in "colour tones" like 9ths, 11ths. 13th, #9's, b9's etc...

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