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Originally Posted by Nathan Madsen
...it sounds like it would be best for your student to seek out another teacher who has more foundation in what he wants to learn.
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Originally Posted by andrew17
...Jazz is really not something you can learn from a book. No matter how good your musical background is a few pages of reading is not going to teacher you jazz.
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True...BUT, having someone - ANYONE - be supportive and help steer you in the right direction is always a good thing.
Ridgewinner will not be teaching someone to play jazz - it can not be taught, only learned.
Something he CAN do, is focus the students energy on learning basic musical principles, which just happen to be rooted in jazz: modes, chords, rhythms.
All the
hard shit (feel, time, etc.) the kid'll have to figure out on his own...