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Re: what a loop has to say
"If it sounds good, it is good."
- Duke Ellington
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: <tohall@rcn.com>
>
> What a loop (or a guitar, or an effect, or a style of music, or
> instrumental technique, or...) has to say is what YOU are and what YOU
> have to say.
>
> Everything else is a tool that you are using to outwardly create that
> expression. Everything.
>
> The only usefulness of valuing skill in the use of one tool over skill
> in another lies in the determination of what skills are necessary to
> play the music you want to play.
>
> and I believe (perhaps naively) that the audience can always see
> through a hoax.
>
> in & out,
> Tom
> www.freeimprovisation.com
>