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Re: Blue Grass & Bass Clarinet

Author: dfh
Date: 2003-03-26 17:33

Hey , Bluegrass and Clarinet, something I've wanted to do for a while! Sounds like a lot of fun. I'm classically trained but have always wanted to explore other types of music. I've recently been playing with whatever random musicians walk in my front door (none are classical), and I've found that it's so easy for any guitarist who knows his instrument well to play in just about any key, that they'll adjust to me. I started by playing the scale that we're "jamming" in, and then just picking a note and making up a cool rhythm and then playing different notes with that rhythm. and from there going for melody/style etc. It's easier to start playing over a vamp than over chord changes. (a vamp is a repeated chord or riff)

I had a guy tell me recently, who plays the flute, that there are 12 notes, he figures out which ones fit, and which ones don't and then he just plays with the ones that do! And he plays some pretty cool stuff! (even if it takes him a minute to figure out which ones don' t fit ;-)

have fun!!

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