Mojokane
231 posts
Jan 19, 2011
12:07 AM
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for me, both slow and fast tempo notes, have there attraction. Depending on the song, and mood I'm in, at the time...but musicality trumps all. Yeah!
You don't necessarily have to have tone. You do need technique.
Last Edited by on Jan 19, 2011 12:08 AM
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5F6H
476 posts
Jan 19, 2011
1:30 AM
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@ Mojokane, not disagreeing with you by any means, but isn't tone part of "musicality"? If the ability to play more notes makes you "more musical" does that mean that a player of a 5 octave instrument is always superior to a player of a 3 or 4 octave instrument?
I think it was Charlie Musselwhite who referenced a Vietnamese flute player he heard who had only 7 or 8 notes at his disposal, he said something like "that guy could tear out your heart with what little he had", not specifically advocating "less is more", but surely isn't it good musicality when a player uses whatever is at his disposal to move people? Again, I'm not saying you can't do that with technique, perhaps I'm just querying the application of the word "musicality" in this instance.
Mark.
(Acting vice president of the "NW Surrey & SW Middx, but definitely not Berkshire, Pedant's Society")
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chromaticblues
488 posts
Jan 19, 2011
8:29 AM
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I just thought of this, but doesn't it take a certain technique to achieve Great tone. Well I mean I know it does!
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Mojokane
232 posts
Jan 19, 2011
10:16 PM
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5F6H...yeah the original question is kind of queerin me out. I like your angle response...It's too hard to finish this thread without veering from the original question. (veering while queering)...makes me dizzy.
The question should be....can technique get you laid?
Or should I bone my tone when alone...?
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colman
7 posts
Jan 24, 2011
7:11 AM
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isn`t the best having both working together,and what really separates the good from the best is having that harp sing rather than talk...isn`t blues from a singing tradition also,Albert King didn`t play much more than
a blues scale,and he did more to me than any player using 10 scales.....and tone in blues is vibrato and the amount of overtone control you have singing...
Last Edited by on Jan 24, 2011 7:29 AM
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Andrew
1297 posts
Jan 24, 2011
7:45 AM
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Someone in another thread said that Stevie Wonder's playing isn't the most technical, and that made me wonder if some people were assuming technique and technical were synonymous. They aren't. Technical is a derogatory word, whereas technique isn't. You need technique to be technical, but having technique doesn't make you technical, it just makes you fluent!
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Andrew,
gentleman of leisure,
noodler extraordinaire.
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