Re: [Harp-L] Real Musican VS. Crap

[Pierre <plavio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James said:

Walter Horton
> was able to play Ellington's "Things isn't what they use to be" and did 
> some incredible things with "La Cucaracha" folksy Mexican Dance.One can 
> argue that if the opportunity was made available to study formal music 
> theory, they would have jumped at the chance. How it would affected they 
> playing is anyone's guess.

I have Big Walters book with Carey Bell and a few years ago, I looked at the 
music to see what he was playing and in the 3 or 4 tunes I looked he wasn't 
playing blues scales, he was playing arpeggios over the chord progression. 
Anyways, I was surprised, I was expecting blues scales notes. As they say, 
old monkeys know a lot of tricks.

Pierre.