petaluma, sacramento and santa cruz. hope to see you there!

oh dang.. that sounds drippy, and painful. thanks man. i'll try not to push it, but i just gotta do something musically constructive/progressive/proactive with my time.. you know how it is...

dlraben: looks and sounds really good and consistent. have you tried baring with the first finger while sfifting strings with trills?

yes, i think you will be surprised how quickly you will improve using thoes trills. also when doing trills, as with most of the time in general, remember to keep the fingers curved so that the tips, not the pads, are making contact with the strings. i personally feel that anything done on the giutar that presents a challenge also presents an oppertunity to improve greatly. the harder the challenge the greater the reward.

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ha! a virtuoso who does not believe in improvization? how interesting the various approaches to music are.

Yes that is a video game but I meant to be referring to the soundtrack. These are just songs that I personally consider to be standards of jazz. I didn't mean that they should be anyone elses standards.

Here are some songs that I consider jazz standards
Cannonball Adderly - Straight No Chaser, Dishere (This Here)
Art Tatum - Tiger Rag, Too Marvelous For Words
Phineas Newborn jr - Oleo
Oscar Peterson - Round Midnight
Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby
Koji Kondo - The Legend Of Zelda
YMCK - Major Swing, Kira*Kira
Cowboy Bebop - Waltz For Venus, Jupiter Jazz, Piano Black, Memory

Sorry about not explaining anything about that. It's a segment of an interview with musicians Shawn Lane and Jonas Hellborg at the Calcutta School of Music. In this segment the question of "what is jazz" is discussed. It's pretty abstract but I think is pertinent to the topic.

no problem