Spoken like a true fiddle player :) But I disagree. While ignoring the chords may fly for fiddle, I don't believe it does for mando; old-time, Bluegrass, whatever. Knowing the chords points you to the melody and helps support the tune/other players while your ear picks up the tune and teaches it to your fingers.
B On May 20, 10:30 am, solofiddle <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, maybe that will work for Bluegrass, I don't know. With Old- > Time, I would never place chords over melody in value. I learn most > new tunes at jams, and the tune may end before you ever get all the > chords. Better, I think, to IMMEDIATELY try to grab as much of the > melody as possible, filling in gaps with each new pass of the tune. At > least that way you might have an actual tune to take home instead of a > bunch of chords. Ideally, I suppose it would be best to simply listen > to the tune a few times, then work on chords if that is important to > you, and then the melody, but there usually is not that luxury of time > in jams. Also, I often don't care whatsoever what the chords are, > unless I'm playing guitar or bass; most of the tunes I try to grab > from jams are so danged crooked you'll be lucky to get the melody > right. But that is always the goal - to get enough to be able to join > in and have fun with the tune before it ends. > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- 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.
