ABSTRACT
Chapter 1, “Introduction” presents the book’s major questions: What strategies are used in professional jazz guitar improvisation? What is implicit and explicit in these strategies? Using a practice-based approach as a long time practitioner on jazz guitar the author explains how this background might enable contact beyond the traditional objective researcher position. Strategies and problem solving routines developed in domain specific areas are extracted from practice and applied back to practice and combined with existing knowledge of cognition. By linking practical context to a cognitive framework using chunking (grouping), schema (context) and template theory (domain specific knowledge), this is also a study of expertise. Extensive adaption to physical and social environments within a domain is an important part of such expertise.
