From: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org (wanderer-digest) To: wanderer-digest@smoe.org Subject: wanderer-digest V2 #2 Reply-To: wanderer@smoe.org Sender: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk wanderer-digest Sunday, January 6 2002 Volume 02 : Number 002 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: wanderer-digest V2 #1 [Patti Witten ] RE: wanderer-digest V2 #1 ["Kate Bennett" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 08:30:43 -0500 From: Patti Witten Subject: Re: wanderer-digest V2 #1 wanderer-digest wrote: > I tend to think of the top three strings > as muted trumpets, or the high end of an orchestra--horn stops. > I think of the midrange as viola, I guess not violins--but the > orchestra's mid-register, say French horn and viola. The thumb > is a very sparse, eccentric bass line. Timewise the thumb can > play vertically while the rest of the fingers are swinging, which > gives a funny kind of Senegalese quality to my shuffle, as if my > thumb is playing a monkey chant and the rest of me is swinging > somewhere in the U.S.A.--like Robert Johnson on Mars." amazing, thanks Paul Patti - -- Patti Witten http://pattiwitten.com Give a gift of Love and Music: 9/11 Charity CD Compilation http://worldremembers.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 11:13:58 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: wanderer-digest V2 #1 no wonder she wants to arrange her songs with a full orchestra if she hears the guitar strings this way...i agree, this is an amazing way that she hears things... ******************************************** Kate Bennett www.katebennett.com sponsored by Polysonics Discover the Indies at Taylor Guitars: http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/bennett.html ******************************************** - -----Original Message----- From: owner-wanderer@smoe.org [mailto:owner-wanderer@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Patti Witten Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 5:31 AM To: wanderer@smoe.org Subject: Re: wanderer-digest V2 #1 wanderer-digest wrote: > I tend to think of the top three strings > as muted trumpets, or the high end of an orchestra--horn stops. > I think of the midrange as viola, I guess not violins--but the > orchestra's mid-register, say French horn and viola. The thumb > is a very sparse, eccentric bass line. Timewise the thumb can > play vertically while the rest of the fingers are swinging, which > gives a funny kind of Senegalese quality to my shuffle, as if my > thumb is playing a monkey chant and the rest of me is swinging > somewhere in the U.S.A.--like Robert Johnson on Mars." amazing, thanks Paul Patti - -- Patti Witten http://pattiwitten.com Give a gift of Love and Music: 9/11 Charity CD Compilation http://worldremembers.org ------------------------------ End of wanderer-digest V2 #2 ****************************