Re: David Harp

[Richard Owen <richardo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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| 
|         >listening to David Harp was excrutiatingly painfull...I
|         >felt like I was in a class and Barney was the teacher)
| 
| Yeah, but you should have heard his early cassettes, where he
| sounded like a Bronx hot dog vendor trying to convey the
| subtleties of caviar.
| 

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The point is, as a beginner, you think: 'I could do that!'.  Hearing a Gary
Primich tape I would have thought: 'I may never learn that'.  Teaching
beginners is a tricky business.  The transition from not playing at all to
playing is a big one.