How important are scales and theory in your guitar playing?

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Do you use theory and scales in your guitar playing?

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chamelious said:
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How come all of your youtube videos start with shots of each others crotches and butts? YOu videotape each other in dressing rooms? I couldn't listen to the music, I had to close the window after you pointed out how "HOT" you think your guitar players butt is.

You honestly dont see the connection? :confused:
 
Lol. I totally missed those youtube videos. What a bunch of queer fuck fashion bug limeys.
 
cuthroat said:
Jazz is a musical form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.

From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music.[1] Its West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note[2] but one of jazz's iconic figures Art Blakey has been quoted as saying, "No America, no jazz. I’ve seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with Africa".[3]

The word "jazz" began as a West Coast slang term of uncertain derivation and was first used to refer to music in Chicago in about 1915.





You may need to know some theory to understand this definition.............motherfucker
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A link to wikipedia would have been easier..:rolleyes:

......and no you don't need any musical theory to understand the origins of Jazz.
 
cuthroat said:
Not the origins.....the DESCRIPTION. I could have put the link but this is music theory for dummies and not sure of your capabilities.
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OK I'll let the plagiarism slide. That just leaves us with you being a dick who doesn't know what he or she is talking about. Hows that?
 
cuthroat said:
I'll agree with being a dick........but oh do I know what I'm talking about.......try me.
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It's entirely possible that you may know of what you speak. The bit about you being a dick was based on the fact that once the plagiarism was removed from your post it read as follows.

You may need to know some theory to understand this definition.............motherfucker
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Hard to tell if you do or don't from that little of your own thought presented? I went with you don't because you resorted to plagiarism in the first instance. Not normally a good start.
 
cuthroat said:
Theory is good

Ignorance is bad
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A much better contribution to the debate. I don't see how that relates to the origin of the idiom of jazz though which was were you entered the debate at this point.:confused:
 
cuthroat said:
Not the origin...the definition. If you can't understand the terms defining a genre then you have to learn some theory. That's all
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So let me get this right I may be getting close seeing as you've gone back and edited some of your posts.

You post a wikipedia entry that describes a view on the origins of Jazz and offer it as a definition and then extrapolate from that a need to understand musical theory. Nice work.;)
 
dintymoore said:
In the end, how can you play music any way but by ear?
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Very true.

Knowing theory lets you understand what you're doing and communicate better about it. Some genres of music place more importance on that than others.

But knowing theory doesn't make you sound good. That's more of a gut level thing.
 
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