I was probably one of the guys asking, "So, like, how do you like, improvise or whatever?". It's no more easier a question to ask than it is for Mike to answer...mostly because I suppose it all depends on what kind of vocabulary you came to the spelling bee with. Mine is limited, but it's not totally inept. My fingers tend to find those anchor melody notes without really thinking about it these days, and to a degree I suppose everything else depends on what you fill in the gaps with. I find the more listening to music I do the broader that vocabulary I have is--and Mike's finger-busters certainly help. I suppose I'll get there in time...
-------------- Original message from "Terry Harvey" <[email protected]>: --------------
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!!
TerryOn 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
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