Re: [Harp-L] Re: Phrasing and Spacing

["G. E. Popenoe" <gpopenoe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure if my last response to this got through.

I think the quote was really a challenge to stop analysing and to  
trust ones feelings.

I still practice my scales. But that is just so I don't have to think  
about them when I play right?

From Gary Popenoe

On Jan 22, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 07:10 AM 1/22/2008, you wrote:
> > Some one correct me if I'm wrong but the story goes something like
> > this . Someone asked Louis Armstrong about about how he played jazz  
> > or
> > how to play jazz or something along those lines . He responded and I
> > paraphrase, "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know ."
>
> I intend to join in the larger discussion, and I feel that the other  
> paragraph Gary wrote is right on, but this quote would have to be  
> among the most discouraging, and incorrect, pieces of information to  
> tell most harmonica players.
>
> In fact, most people "gotta ask", and Harp-l is a forum where people  
> "gotta ask" or they will not learn.  Armstrong, who may not have  
> even spoken that quote, was not a teacher, he was a genius who  
> didn't put much thought into explaining.  On the other hand, he had  
> many, many teachers and said as much when recourning his personal  
> history.
>
> Note to everyone who feels like they have not gotten to the musical  
> place they want to get to: You Gotta Ask.  Almost every good  
> musician I have ever played with stunk at first.  Then they got  
> okay.  Then they got good.  Alot of it comes from working at it, but  
> ALOT of it comes from asking people who already know.
>
> There are big issues that are hard or impossible to teach, but the  
> idea that was presented in that quote is pure, unnecessary  
> discouragement.  Ask ask ask.
>
> Ken