i also started playing jazz guitar in high school, but it seems that i had a bit of a leg up on you. you're gonna have a hard time playing jazz if you can't play changes relatively fast, and you need to have at least a rudimental knowledge of theory to understand extended chords so you can make them yourself. however, i guess you could just practice realllllly hard and memorize alot of them, if that will get you by....but you should really get going on this. it doesn't come very quickly.
"the more you know, the less you know. I don't feel like i know shit anymore, but i love it."
-Mike Stern
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