Bobby Broom Solo Guitar - Here's That Rainy Day

Self-admittedly "no solo jazz guitar virtuoso", Broom offers this homespun version of a classic tune to the Sweepersan archives.

Bobby sites comrade Earl Klugh's 2005 release "Naked Guitar" as "real serious solo jazz guitar", and implores fans to check it out. http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Guitar-Earl-Klugh/dp/B0009YA462

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[sampraz1990]

why is jazz so hard to play? i play rock and that shit is easy compared to jazz.

[Tjohn537]

This guy should definitely have more views. It's like listening to story.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@sampraz1990: Finally, many guitarists aren't up to the level of musicality required in jazz. They usually don't read well, may lack solid timing or rhythm, and usually don't know how to play in a section like horn players are expected to do. As more guitarists take music education seriously, this trend is changing - but the notion that guitarists are inferior musicians persists anyway. Guys on other instruments usually don't know guitar, so don't know what role to give us.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@sampraz1990: A pop or rock guitarist typically plays a solid-body guitar, with slinky strings, and may use effects such as distortion to fatten and sustain his tone. Most jazzers player archtop guitars, which have thick flat-wound strings and a sound that does not sustain much. Some players use solid-body axes in jazz, but not too many.

Because of its origins in folk, rock and blues, guitar is something of a bastard stepchild in jazz.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@sampraz1990: A last reason jazz is tough is because being a jazz man means being in poverty. There's so few venues in which to play, and even fewer in which to make money. The competition among players is consequently fierce, for the few decent gigs there are. Forty years ago, you could start at the bottom and work your way up, not so now. Too few gigs. The experienced cats will often test a newbie by playing a tune around the cycle of fourths - doing a tune in all twelve keys. It's tough.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@sampraz1990: Jazz standards and bebop tunes use tricky intervals and chord changes; the key often changes every few measures. The keys aren't guitar-friendly ones, either - such as B-flat, E-flat, F, etc. If I had it to do ver again, before learning jazz on guitar, I'd have tuned down a half-step, which gives you alot of flat open strings. Tempos in jazz can be insane, too - 200 beats/minute is not uncommon in bop tunes. You can fake that stuff... you either know it or you don't.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@sampraz1990: Re: "why is jazz so hard to play? i play rock and that shit is easy compared to jazz." Got an hour? Jazz guitar is a bear, no lie... trust me, I've been down that road myself and it isn't an easy instrument on which to play jazz (of course, none are). The horn-like articulation and phrasing so necessary to jazz lines are very tough to get on a guitar, as opposed to an instrument using breath. Since the rhythm section is anchored partly by piano, guitar is the odd instrument out.

[sirtubbyhayes]

Sublime phrasing, beautiful turns,transitions and colors, thank you Bobby Broom

[cosmicblu3]

the beautiful sound of a pick and a string.........

[frootloopsfan]

jazz is mos def the hardest genre to play on a guitar

[inky960]

@Chromatype - Call me weird, but you know, I *sometimes* (depends on the player, I think) I sometimes LIKE the sound of strings "fretting out" - buzzing on the hard attacks. I hate the sound of buzzing nylon, but stuff like this I don't mind when it seems to be part of the emotion the guy's putting forth. I play just under 2mm action on my acoustic archtop, with 12s, and yet nothing really buzzes... I sort of figured this guy's strings are too light - ? I don't know. Great music, though.

[lovedragonflies]

Just amazing...my ears most certainly thank you..what a delightful treat