I play piano and mute the piano part. There are styles with no piano and I use those too. The jazz styles use comping and it's pretty accurate. I often print out the piano part and put it on the piano alongside the leadsheet and use it at times as fill in between verses with the melody. So I mute both the melody and piano part. Sometimes, since the inception of realinstruments I put in a guitar or other comping part.


John Conley
Musica est vita