From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #26 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Monday, April 17 2000 Volume 02 : Number 026 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] guitar playing and musicianship ["Charlie Sweeney" Subject: [RS] guitar playing and musicianship Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ HI all, Thanks to Deb for mentioning Brooks Williams, a massively good guitarist. I hope none of the musicians (especially the young and learning ones) on the list get the wrong impression about learning to read music, or working on it's technical side. It is a *good* thing to know music theory. It is a *good* thing to learn the techniques that apply to your instrument. I've often felt that there was a prejudice against folk players with classical or other advanced musical education. Nothing you learn about music will be wasted. Don't pass up the chance to learn music theory, instead seek out that opportunity. Twenty years from now, you'll thank me for that advice if you take it, or curse me if you didn't. One of the most important things you can learn is articulation, something that wind instrument players understand better than guitarists. This refers to the way you enter a note, and the way you leave it and applies to *every* note you play. Do you slide into the note, play it percussively? Do you let it ring, cut it off, bend it up to the next note, then cut it off? For a primer in this I refer you to Darrell Scott's work on Susan Werner's "Time Between Trains". Also for you bandminded folk, listen to the interplay between instruments. Or just listen to the severely inebriated bagpiper ;-) For a nice view of what jazz players can do with folk music I commend to you Joni Mitchell's live "Shadows and Light" which I have on those big black thingees we used to call "records". In it, Pat Metheny playes a long segue between "Amelia" and "Hejira" which proves to anyone willing to listen with open ears and heart that words are not necessary to evoke emotion in the human soul. Good to listen to with earphones in the dark. In classical, try the andante movement of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat :-) http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=252372257/pagename=/share/soundclip.html/UPC=7464574972/disc=01/track=02/source=ENSO/ra.ram The only limitations in this wired connected world of music are th eones you put on yourself. If all you listen to is folk music, you're depriving yourself of thousand of years of human musical endeavor. Listen to and love your folk. But listen to something else when you get the chance. Now I'm off to learn Dammit by Blink 182 :-> Charlie Sweeney (=}===# Virtual Guitarist-Something Black http://somethingblack.com http://susanwerner.com http://karensavoca.com http://lastgreatkiss.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:13:01 -0700 From: ptpower@juno.com Subject: Re: [RS] Shades of Black, Shades of Blue Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ Joy wrote: <> A snippet (2:01 worth) of the Shindell version is also located at the Campbell site. The direct link for that is: http://www.folkweb.com/richardshindell/shadesofblack-load.ra Pat ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 21:00:31 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] The Millers hit the big time Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ There's a long piece in the Arts and Lesiure section (p. 25) of today's New York Times devoted to Richard's buddies, Buddy and Julie Miller. The title is "Champions of an Off-Brand Country" written by Peter Applebome. Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 21:15:08 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Shades of Black, Shades of Blue Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ << A snippet (2:01 worth) of the Shindell version is also located at the Campbell site. >> BTW, I got my copy of the promo CD yesterday (available from Signature Sounds), and the song is INCREDIBLE. Too bad it wasn't included on SNP. Although I understand it was bumped for "Calling the Moon," which is my favorite performance on the CD. In any case, now we've got both songs. Also, the alternate version of "Confession," a stripped-down version, is absolutely haunting. Get this CD . . . get it now. RG ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 21:15:31 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Ms. Rusby Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ Kerry gushed: << I'll enthusiastically third that! Ms. Rusby is just plain wonderful. I actually got it into my head last year that a Richard Shindell/Kate Rusby co-bill (or tour, even!) would be a brilliant thing. I can just see you fellow Kate fans saying, "Oh MAN that would be great!" (because, frankly, everyone said that) but, alas, as it happens, Kate "doesn't much fancy the idea of flying" (which is why she's never toured in the US, I guess) so it never panned out (which is not to say that, if she'd wanted to fly, it would have been a done deal - I just mean that the possibility was pretty much an instant write-off). Oh well, someday... sigh. >> Long before Cry Cry Cry ever cried their first note, I'd often dreamed of my "Perfect Co-Bill," which was Richard, Lucy and Dar. And now that THAT came true, my NEXT dream show is Richard and Kate Rusby. And as far as her fear of flying, well, let me just suggest this: Dramamine DOES come in chewable tablets. RG ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #26 **********************************