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i feel the same way and come from the complete opposite direction: that is to say i started music on a more improvised free-form platform and only realized the structure and theory/note reading later. i think that both worlds shouldn't be as segregated as they are. i think that improv can really help us discover little special spaces about ourselves as musicians/individuals. sometimes it can be surprising and euphoric; sometimes you notice yourself in audience to your own music making. these are some of the special and unique qualities of the language of music that i have a love affair with almost everyday:)
after all, when we blog or communicate orally in our everyday lives...what are we doing?
EADG. Thank you so much for this! I started off with the Suzuki method back when I was about 5 years old. Being classically trained, I have branched off into the realms of Celtic and Bluegrass music. I had tried jazz a couple times but never could get my violin/viola playing to sound like it belonged in a jazz style. It's nice to see that someone is succeeding.

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im trying to do something very similar: bill evans on guitar and coltrane on violin One of the great things about learning jazz is that as long as you have decent technique, any jazz musician can teach you jazz. Jazz is mostly theory. Learning how to improvise is not as much a technical skill in the sense of how to bow or finger as one based on knowing scales, chords, and the like.