After the River City Festival in Portland, Oregon this weekend i can relate to improvisation on variations of the same tune. By Saturday nite @ midnite my mind was a combination of bluegrass/sour mash mush and we were still looking for jam circles. Twinkle Twinkle Old Joe Clark, Ring Around The St Anne's Reel, Back to Tennessee. I saw 3 groups put their spin on Big Mon all different, all wonderful, from the traditional arrangement to Pyschograss' "Big Monk." Bluegrass improv is alive & well. I gotta show this video to my Punjabi friends!!
Terry On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:23 PM, mistertaterbug <[email protected]>wrote: > > The topic of "how to improvise" has come up quite a bit since the > webcam lesson thing started. I must say that I never thought a lot > about it in that way. I have mainly just made efforts to recreate what > I was hearing and really it has not been until the last dozen years or > less that "re-using" the language has become more understandable. I > hear a number of different theories for reworking melodies. In the > following example(furnished by Val Mindel) there are plainly several > different styles used to recreate "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". > Seems I remember hearing a classical version of the same idea once. I > wish I could find it now. Anyone have any ideas? > > http://www.searchles.com/channels/show/6161 > > Oh, the link here is pretty funny, even if it is educational. Enjoy. > Spec tater > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
