On Joni's guitar playing...
As you have mentioned some of her songs are easy to play, however I think
they're hard to play well. There are also some songs that rhythmically are
very difficult to play. Her style of playing is very unique. Aside from
employing alternate tunings, she was always doing something new with her
instrument. I think a lot of recognition comes for the pioneering aspect of
her playing.
Nikki
"Dream on but don't imagine they'll all come true...Vienna waits for you" ~
Billy Joel
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> Yesteday I wrote:
> I have been lurking on and off for last month or two. Would like
> to post a
> response and some info. I remember reading about 'how to'' but do not
> remember the guide and what rules to remember following - would
> you please
> direct me to site ?
>
> In the immortal words of Roberto De Vicenzo - " I am a stupid".
>
> My first confession out of the way, I would like to add one more
> - but first
> a sighting. While falling asleep to VH1 the other night (not that
> I do that
> very often) I ran across what is probably an old Top 20 show on
> the "top 20
> guitarists of rock and roll". Joni made the list at number 18 or
> so. Now the
> other 19 on that list could sit down and play her songs in no
> time flat, but
> I doubt that she could play any of theirs without a great deal of
> time and
> practice (and in many cases, "jamais"). I believe this because even I can
> play Joni's songs - now that I have the JMDL guitar tab data base to work
> from :-) - but I could not hope to do what those others do. Do
> they call this
> "transferrance " in psych ? (I know nothing about Psych). At
> first I thought
> that maybe they the VH1 poll was paying homage to her use of multiple
> alternate tunings - and to the contribution that has made to future
> exploration of the guitar as an instrument. But as I recall (I
> was dozing off
> until I heard 'the name' ) they did not spend any significant
> time dwelling
> on that. Could it be that after all those years of
> underappreciation by the
> liberal media, that they are now employing affirmative action as
> an approach
> to making up for the indignities of past oversights and other
> similar slights
> to Joni ? ;-)
>
> Oops - no time now for the other confession - by the way, when
> one posts a
> confession on the list, does the Reverand Vince mete out the
> penance ? I need
> to know, cause the next sin's pretty bad. :-)
