kudzurunner
6041 posts
Sep 18, 2016
9:17 AM
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Joe Filisko's weekly newsletter, "You Missed Monday!!!", had brief and thought-provoking couple of distinctions. Grant Kessler, the newsletter admin, has given me permission to copy and paste here. I'll put a couple of links below that for those who might be interested.
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With both the Performance and the Level III classes in mind, Joe's been thinking about the word repertoire and has some refinements on the term to share:
Active Repertoire - anything you can play right now, at a moment's notice
Inactive Repertoire - anything you need a short refresher or rehearsal time for
And then he has a couple subdivisions in the Active category:
Playing Repertoire - your eyes are closed; you're distracted concentrating on the tune; you are not selling it
Performing Repertoire - you are selling it and you look like you're entertaining the audience and yourself
Joe points out that most people would much rather hear you play an easy song well as opposed to a complicated tune that you struggle with. So give some time to revisiting early, simpler songs you learned, dust them off and see the value in having them in your Active Repertoire. You can sell these!
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Last Edited by kudzurunner on Sep 18, 2016 7:07 PM
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Goldbrick
1604 posts
Sep 18, 2016
11:17 AM
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"Joe points out that most people would much rather hear you play an easy song well as opposed to a complicated tune that you struggle with"
I agree complicated tunes usually only appeal to other musicians.
Whats the difference between a jazz guitarist and a rock guitarist?
The rocker plays 3 chords to 1000 people
The jazzer plays 1000 chords to 3 people
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AW
170 posts
Sep 18, 2016
11:43 AM
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Slightly off topic, but how do you best go from learning a 12 bar intro or solo for a given song to adding the whole song to your active repertoire?(Especially when you don't have a band)
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JInx
1229 posts
Sep 18, 2016
12:50 PM
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Find a recording or go to a show of someone performing solo. Copy them as best you can.
Spoon-fed learning has some use, but don't make it a crutch.
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Harmonicatunes
182 posts
Sep 18, 2016
3:50 PM
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More gems from the wonderful Filisko. Worth adding is getting any sort of repertoire together. Many of us can play decent solos, but would be at a loss if put on the spot to play unaccompanied.
I wrote about this for Harmonica World magazine a few years back, You can see it here.
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Tony Eyers
Australia
www.HarmonicaAcademy.com
everyone plays...
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