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Originally Posted by robinjessome
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...
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yea thats what i was gonna kind of do. in a way, i wouldnt be teaching him, but rather sitting down with him and figuring things out. jazz has a lot of personal flavour in it, and so we could even come up with our own style of jazz.
i do agree with the 3 of you that said this is a method for disaster, but the financial situation his family is in would not allow him to get a professional jazz teacher. I charge 10 dollars AUD for a lesson for all my students. So that is why we are doing it this way.