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Jazz Band
I want to join jazz band next year at school, but I'm not sure if I'm good enough yet. I've been playing for about one and a half years, teaching myself (with some books). While I can improv pretty well, and I know my chords, I dunno if I'll be able to play a song written on a staff on the guitar.
Anyone out there able to give me any insight?
[edit: dug up a doodle I did: http://dreamviews.com/dougdrums/doodle.wav]
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Is your school's jazz band competitive. If so they'll have try outs. Goto that and they'll evaluate you.
I don't know about the chord thing, but I think you will need to be able to do that. But then again jazz is mainly improv.
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Well, improv is pretty much my forte. The thing is that they don't have tryouts, I just have to join.
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Then I'd say give it a try.
