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Another chap I've done remixes for has a completely different style of music that I like. Some of the stuff I've really not liked at all, but that makes for a really interesting project and the emerging remixes were nothing like what he expected, but he said he liked them
The jazz one was more of a challenge - 3 hours straight a couple of nights a week, didn't pay as well in monetary terms but I learnt a lot about expensive and obscure alcoholic beverages in that time, which no doubt helped relax me into the jazz technique more. And how to pad out solos/variations of tunes when you need an extra few minutes as you're running out of tunes to cover the 3 hours.
I also don't really write music in the styles I like to listen to, which I suppose is quite weird. I don't have the voice for the styles of music I like, so I tend to write more in mellow synthy styles, or even folky voice+guitar type stuff, despite the fact I never listen to these styles other than a couple of artists that are influenced by those styles. I'm not sure it's a good thing but it's all I can do to be honest. Hearing my nasal drone ripping through angry garage rock would definitely put me off doing it again
Edit: thinking about it, I don't listen to organ music (awful sounding instrument) nor really much jazz piano either in fairness. Am I some sort of surrogate musician?
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The only time I came really unstuck was when presented with a request to play guitar on a medley of Gloria Estefan's greatest hits for a cruise ship function band. Pages of music sellotaped together, but not to match the medley. Not really having any clue on how to handle 80's pop funk I was trying to read all the popping parts and just got thoroughly lost and wasn't confident of the style enough just to improvise and muddle through. Was grim. Didn't get the work in that case!
Otherwise, I think it's extremely good for you to be honest, it opens up new ideas and influences that you can bring to your own style and just makes life more interesting.
The most fun one was contributing all instruments to a friends country music project, really enjoyed learning about a style of music I'd always completely ignored and a whole range of sub genres I'd never even heard of. Luckily was not a paying project so could take my time. was loads of fun.
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thinking..
I adore church organ [Bach stuff].. always have.. blows me away..
switching from anything to jazz is always a big ask.. folks spend a lifetime trying to master it
I've not had to do it much live.. mostly in the studio so at leat I have time to do a little research
being put on the spot live would be a nightmare.. lol