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• Buco NOVA, DCDeity Ivanovski maple/spruce

  June 2018 Posts: 4,737

  Knowing the lyrics in order to follow the changes and know your way around the tune sounds like a great idea. Only thing is, it becomes yet another thing to study, learn and memorize, as if we already don't have enough to work on.

  Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel
• Russell Letson Prodigy

  June 2018 Posts: 356

  Not so much study and memorize as make the music part of one's life. Of course, I grew up with the Great American Songbook, and it remained central to my musical imagination right alongside folk and rock and jazz. I live inside those tunes because they live inside of me. It's not going to school--they are the school, as much as Shakespeare or the Marx Brothers or Laurel & Hardy or Bob Hope.
  
  

  
• Jazzaferri Victoria B.C.Moderator Dunn Ultrafox, DuPont MDC20 Gretsch Chet Atkins CG

  June 2018 Posts: 3,707

  Amen

  The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed