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Jazz musicians are the most skilled, though. Want a good drummer? Get a jazz drummer. Want a good guitarist? Get a jazz guitarist. They just have all the knowledge and ability. Any jazz player I have ever encountered has left me wishing I could play as well as them. Sometimes, I wished I liked jazz so I could be that good. (I like some jazz, but I wouldn't say I was exactly a fan. It's a vast genre).
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I agree. The crux of it is, once you get into playing and music you naturally progress into attaining knowledge and I think that leads you into jazz and fusion. I started playing drums and all I wanted to do was beat the he'll out of them stuck between to Marshall stacks!! Ten years later I'm studying the Moeller technique and the Ted Reed method (don't ask, nerdy drum stuff). But after pushing myself like that when it came playing whole lotta Rosie, boys are back and for whom the bell tolls. Man! They were swinging.
So now I have found the righteous path of bass, I want to get the whole lot under my belt, having learnt my lesson with drums. The sooner I can get the knowledge, I know that playing all the rock and pop stuff will be loads better. I have everything on my iPod from Miles Davis to Messhuggah!!! Musical appreciation I think it's called.
I like jazz though, there, I said it.