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Jazz theory came decades after jazz.
by sornaensis 5y ago
Jazz theory came decades after jazz.
- lewispollard 5y agoYes, to describe and group together the specific music theory elements that jazz musicians tended to use: sevenths, avoiding triads, modulation, etc. Not because there was no theory intentionally used in jazz music. If you think those guys didn't know what they were doing...
- danShumway 5y agoThat's why jazz theory is valuable, sometimes people don't want to spend decades re-learning things that other people have already learned. Also, I'm just plain not as good a musician as, say, Duke Ellington was, and there's a benefit to being able to understand what he was doing so I can try to imitate that style and incorporate his techniques into my own playing -- I don't want to rediscover all of his lessons completely on my own because I'm not talented enough to do that; very few people are.