Understanding the Characteristics of the Jazz Guitar Style

Posted by on Feb 12, 2010 in Jazz Guitar | 0 comments

What is the jazz guitar style?

The easiest way to begin is to describe what is not the jazz guitar style. Power 5 chords, simple open chords, steady strums, static chord progressions, a lack of key modulations, heavy bending and vibrato, slinky thin strings, distortion, excessive volume, huge amplifiers … these are a few characteristics that say that the music is probably not the jazz guitar style.

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