Re: Visual roadmaps suck (Re: Pers latest clip)

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 22 maj 2007, at 22.22, Charles Zwicky wrote:

> I started live as a wind / horn player and switched later in life  
> to guitar  (OK, at age 8).
>  I was fascinated to hear a tape that Jon Hassell played during an  
> interview which contained some of his lessons with his indian vocal  
> teacher. Vocalizing, note shapes and colors. 'Shredding' is at it's  
> -best- like Jackson Pollock, it can be quite valid, too...  I suppose.


I'm totally with you on that, Charles! Although I do have a problem  
the word "shredding" I understand where you're going since you  
mention "Jackson Pollock" and "vocalizing, note shapes and colors".  
But what can be said about playing notes (BB King: "Play as you would  
have sung those notes") the same can of course be said about how one  
best can relate to scales and phrases at a higher level of playing.  
Learn the color/taste/shape of each scale and phrase to make them  
part of your musical vocabulary. In this sense I'm all pro shredding;  
paint a rainbow by billions of water drops and people will see and  
enjoy the rainbow, given you don't bother with every drop but rather  
use the rainbow as a meaningful gesture of yours.

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