[Harp-L] Sweet emotion

["Glenn Weiser" <celticguitar1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris wrote-

<I get the whole theory thing.  My initial comment was to use you ears
<and emotion.  With enough emotion any note can be made to work.

I don't think so. Try a long b2, a long b6, or a long 4 over a major chord.
(Ex. - C#, Ab, or F over a C chord). They will all sound bad, being
half-step dissonances. You just can't play ANYTHING soaked with "emotion"
and pull it off. What's true is that you can play a lot more than you might
once have thought possible. But even in jazz they have a saying, "taking it
out" for when a musician fails to play over a chord in an intelligible way."
Beware of making categorical statements-they're often just plain wrong.

-Glenn Weiser
http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/harppage.htm