John Bell wrote:
I understood "noodling" to refer to a kind of mindless jazz improvisation (not something string players are known for), but next time we have some American string players here I'll ask them to noodle and see what happens.
Mindless? Free-form, perhaps, but if well done, definitely not mindless! "Noodling" especially refers to the busy weaving of counterpoints of clarinets around the simple melodies found in Dixieland music, and it's often not simple, not easy, and not done without thought unless the player is very god and very experienced.
Now some of the attempts at jazz I've heard some violinists do... cd -- http://www.livejournal.com/users/dershem/# _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
